| # Planned warehouse orders Planned warehouse orders for sales schedules serve as the interface between Order Management on one hand and Warehouse Management and Central Invoicing on the other hand. They form the basis for most schedule-related processes. With planned warehouse orders: Schedule updates and revisions are decoupled from warehouse orders. A many-to-many relationship can exist between warehouse orders (outbound lines) in Warehouse Management and schedule lines in Order Management. Master data To use planned warehouse orders, you must select the Use Contracts for Schedules check box in the Sales Contract Parameters (tdsls0100s300) session. To create planned warehouse orders When a sales schedule line with the Requirement Type set to Firm or Immediate is approved, LN completes the following steps: Creates a planned warehouse order with the same number as the sales schedule in the Sales Schedule Planned Warehouse Orders (tdsls3520m000) session. Creates a link between the planned warehouse order and the sales schedule line (revision) in the Sales Schedule Planned Warehouse Order Links (tdsls3521m000) session. Checks whether the sales schedule line can be consolidated by quantity. In this case, multiple schedule lines are combined into one planned warehouse order. The planned warehouse order's ordered quantity is a grouped quantity and the same planned warehouse order is linked to various schedule lines. For more information, refer to To consolidate schedule lines on planned warehouse orders. Checks whether the sales schedule line can be consolidated by date. In this case, the planned warehouse order's Requirement Start Date is changed into a pre-defined delivery moment, which reduces deliveries. For more information, refer to To consolidate schedule lines on planned warehouse orders. Note For sales schedule lines with the following characteristics, no planned warehouse orders can be created: The sales schedule line is linked to a material release that does not contain the actual order. For such schedule lines, the Use Material Release for Firm Requirements check box is cleared in the Sales Contract Line Logistic Data (tdsls3102m000) session. The Customer Requirement Type and Requirement Type fields have different values in the Sales Schedule Lines (tdsls3107m000) session. To handle planned warehouse orders Step 1. Release the planned warehouse order to Warehouse Management Releasing the planned order to a real warehouse order is executed as follows: Automatically, if the Automatically Release Non-referenced Sales Schedules to Order or Automatically Release Referenced Sales Schedules to Order check boxes are selected in the Schedule Terms and Conditions (tctrm1131m000) session. Manually, in the Release Sales Schedules to Order (tdsls3207m000) and Release Pick-up Sheets to Warehousing (tdsls3207m100) sessions. Step 2. Execute deliveries for the planned warehouse order For more information, refer to To deliver planned warehouse orders. Step 3. Release the planned warehouse order to Central Invoicing Releasing to Central Invoicing is executed as follows: By actual delivery/invoice line for the planned warehouse order in the Sales Schedule Invoice Lines (tdsls3140m200) session. For a range of planned warehouse orders in the Release Sales Orders/Schedules to Invoicing (tdsls4247m000) session. Step 4. Process the planned warehouse order If, in the Process Delivered Sales Schedules (tdsls3223m000) session, the sales schedules linked to the Invoiced planned warehouse order are processed , the planned warehouse order is also processed. During processing, the turnover history is logged, the contract is updated, and the schedule line status is updated. Note You can use the Sales Schedule - Lines (tdsls3611m000) session to execute all of these steps. To update planned warehouse orders When new sales releases are processed, sales schedule line updates or new schedule line revisions can lead to updates on the planned warehouse order and planned warehouse order links. How LN handles the schedule line updates or the new schedule line revisions depends on the status of the planned warehouse order and, if applicable, the status of the warehouse order. For more information, refer to To update planned warehouse orders. Related topics To consolidate schedule lines on planned warehouse orders To deliver planned warehouse orders To update planned warehouse orders |