| DMS planning and processing |  |
| ERP LN provides three methods of DMS planning: DMS upon Receipt DMS upon SFC Receipt DMS on Inventory DMS upon Receipt DMS planning comprises the following steps: Receive items using the Warehouse Receipts (whinh3512m000) session. Start the Direct Material Supply Distribution (whinh6130m000) session. You can do this at various moments and in several ways after you confirm receipt. DMS does the following: Determines demand from each warehouse within the warehouse supply structure. Nets demand against on hand stock and open (cross-dock) orders. Prioritizes demand based on planning priority rules. Assigns received goods to demand, according to priority. Assigns any on hand inventory to demand, according to priority. Users can change priorities and reassign quantities. Users must approve the assigned quantities. Users can process assigned quantities according to the priorities. As a result, ERP LN will generate: Cross-dock orders to cross-dock goods within the supply warehouse and destination warehouses. Transfer orders to transfer the assigned quantities to the other warehouses. Outbound advice to outbound the assigned on hand inventory. DMS upon SFC Receipt For SFC production orders, DMS planning can be run: After reporting an operation complete If DMS is a step in the routing and if an operation has the DMS on Completion check box selected, DMS runs automatically after reporting the operation complete. In this case, however, no cross-dock orders and/or transfer orders will be generated. Instead, the Direct Material Supply Distribution (whinh6130m000) session will only show current demand and the distribution of supply, thus offering a preview of the DMS run during or after receipt. During or after confirm receipt The DMS upon SFC Receipt setting indicates whether and, if so, in what way, DMS will be run when receiving an SFC production order. Otherwise, DMS upon SFC Receipt comprises the same steps as DMS upon Receipt. DMS on Inventory You can run DMS planning in various situations: To apply DMS planning to the inventory of the supply warehouse only, users can select one or more inventory lines in the Warehouse - Item Inventory (whwmd2515m000) session, and then click Direct Material Supply Distribution on the Specific menu. In the Generate Outbound Advice (whinh4201m000) session, users can generate outbound advice for DMS items according to DMS planning rules. Upon receipt of items, depending on the DMS upon Receipt and DMS upon SFC Receipt settings. In any situation, transfer orders can be generated to transfer the inventory to warehouses with the highest-priority demand. DMS processing Regardless of the way in which DMS planning is carried out but depending on the situation, cross-dock orders, transfer orders, and outbound advice can be generated. DMS upon Receipt If received goods are required in other warehouses than the supply warehouse, cross-dock orders are generated to cross-dock the goods in the supply warehouse, and transfer orders are generated to transfer the goods to the other warehouses. DMS on Inventory and outbound advice according to DMS If you run DMS on inventory or through generate outbound advice, no cross-dock orders are generated. Instead, outbound advice are generated to get the goods out of the warehouse, and transfer orders will be generated to transfer the goods to other warehouses. Inbounding goods If demand with the highest priority is in the supply warehouse itself, the goods will be inbounded instead of transferred to other warehouses. The goods can also be cross-docked in the warehouse for actual demand orders on the warehouse. Related topics Direct material supply (DMS) DMS and demand DMS settings and master data Possible issues and recommendations |