| # Warehouse Orders You can use Warehouse Orders to: Receive items Issue items Cross-dock and/ or transfer items between warehouses Inspect items Adjust inventory Perform cycle counts Assemble kits To handle warehousing orders Warehousing order initiates and controls every transaction in Warehousing and can be generated either manually or automatically within other packages or modules. One or more warehousing order controls the inventory movement and its account using a simple transfer order to a complicated receipt. Inventory Planning of Warehousing tracks planned inventory transactions, which are converted to warehousing orders. Easy entry warehouse orders ERP Enterprise allows you to create warehousing orders easily with a single order line with the following order origins: Sales (Manual) Purchase (Manual) Service (Manual) Maintenance Sales (Manual) Maintenance Work (Manual) SFC Production (Manual) Transfer (Manual) After you create a warehousing order and an outbound order line and/or an inbound order line, information on the created warehousing order is printed on a report and/or an error is printed on a report. Inventory ownership in Warehouse Management When the ownership of an item changes, payment is due and invoicing is initiated. Inventory ownership change orders are used to change the ownership of the inventory from supplier to customer and vice versa. In traditional, non-VMI business scenarios, the ownership of an item changes from the supplier to the customer after the customer has received the item from the supplier. The customer must pay for the item on receipt of the goods. Time-based ownership change If the ownership change for consigned goods is time based according to the contract drawn up between the supplier and the customer, the ownership of the inventory changes after a particular period: After receipt, according to legal requirements. After receipt, as specified in the contract drawn up between the supplier and the customer. After the latest transaction. The ownership changes after a number of days in which no receipts or issues have taken place. This applies if the basic ownership rule is consigned, and no receipts or issues (consumptions) have taken place in a particular period specified in the contract. Consumption-based ownership change If the ownership change is consumption based according to the contract drawn up between the supplier and the customer, the ownership of the goods changes from the supplier to the customer when the customer consumes the items for production or sale. After the customer becomes the owner, the customer must pay for the goods. Cost peg transfers - overview Cost peg transfer functionality enables transfer of cost between two different pegs (pegged to unpegged and vice versa) within the same warehouse. The cost peg transfers do not physically move the inventory but only transfer the cost of the inventory. It is not possible to transfer the goods across warehouses. Cross-docking process ERP Enterprise supports cross-docking. If cross-docking is applicable, received goods are directly assigned to the shipping process of ERP Enterprise. The cross-docking corresponds to the physical flow of the goods as they are moved directly from the receiving dock to the shipping dock. This prevents superfluous inbound and outbound handling. Cross-dock order priority ERP Enterprise assigns a priority to the cross-dock orders for an item. This priority indicates the order in which cross-dock order lines must be generated for the cross-dock orders. First, cross-dock order lines are created for cross-dock orders with the highest priority. Next, the cross-dock order lines for cross-dock orders with subsequent priority are generated. Direct material supply (DMS) Direct Material Supply concept implies that goods received from suppliers or produced in manufacturing shops move directly to their point of consumption without storing it in a ‘storage’ warehouse. The DMS concept uses the Cross-docking concept to avoid storage of goods in the warehouse, and the Warehouse Transfer Order concept to move the goods directly to the point of consumption, which is probably another warehouse. Warehouse supply structures Warehouse Supply Structures are defined for direct material supply, a user-specific cluster of warehouses, which consists of one or more supply warehouses and a number of destination warehouses. Before using direct material supply, at least one warehouse supply structure must be defined. Planning priority rules If you use direct material supply (DMS), you can define planning priority rules for cross-docking. These rules specify conditions that can be applied to a specific situation and a specific order, and result in a priority figure when applied to a specific order. Aggregating the priority figures of all applicable priority rules results in a planning priority, which in turn is used as the system priority. Inbound - Receipt and inspection procedures Inbound management ensures received goods are stored in a warehouse that includes receipt and the inspection procedures. During the process of storing the goods, several activities are set up and executed flexibly. During the inbound process, you can switch several activities off or on, or change activities from execution mode. Inbound process is executed using the inbound advice which is a list generated by ERP Enterprise that indicates the location where received goods must be stored, taking into account storage conditions, blockings, and so on. Storage list Storage list states the warehouse or locations where goods must be stored. A storage list is used by warehouse personnel to place the received items in the right location within the warehouse. The storage lists are shown for each run number and for each storage mission. Receipt and inspection procedures - in detail The receipt and inspection procedures comprise the activities that you must perform in ERP Enterprise to receive and, if required, inspect goods that you want to store in the warehouse. This procedure also describes all steps, also called activities, of the inbound and inspection procedures and shows how the steps can be executed. Warehouse inspections and order origin The receipt and inspection procedures comprise the activities that you must perform in ERP Enterprise to receive and, if required, inspect goods that you want to store in the warehouse. This procedure also describes all steps, also called activities, of the inbound and inspection procedures and shows how the steps can be executed. The outbound procedure Outbound management handles activities to get stored goods out of the warehouse that includes outbound and the shipment procedure. During the process of picking the goods, several activities are set up and executed flexibly. During the outbound process, you can switch several activities off or on, or change activities from execution mode. Outbound procedure is executed using outbound advice which is a list generated by ERP Enterprise that advises you the location and lot from which goods must be picked and possibly issued, taking into account factors such as blocked locations and the outbound method. The shipment procedure Outbound management handles activities to get stored goods out of the warehouse that includes outbound and the shipment procedure. This procedure describes all steps, also called activities, of the shipment procedure and shows how you can perform these steps. The shipment procedure comprises the activities that you must perform in ERP Enterprise to ship goods that were issued from the warehouse by means of the outbound procedure. Delivery notes A delivery note is a transport document that provides information on a consignment contained in one truck (or other vehicle) and refers to an order or a set of orders for one consignee at a delivery address. It is one of the shipping documents that can be part of a shipment procedure. You can control the usage of delivery note functionality using various parameters. Advance Shipment Notice (ASN) Advance shipment notice is a notification that a shipment has been sent. Advanced shipment notices are sent and received by means of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). You can receive advance shipment notices from your supplier informing you that goods are to arrive at your warehouse, and/or you can send advance shipment notices to your customers that the goods they ordered are about to be delivered. Inventory disposition Inventory disposition is an alternative method to handle rejected inventory. Inventory disposition caters for follow-up activities/decisions such as ‘use as is’, ‘scrap’, ‘rework’ and ‘return’, necessary after an initial rejection of the received items. To perform cycle counts You can use cycle counting to check the registered inventory against the actual inventory at a certain moment in time. Cycle-count orders are used to count the inventory by stockpoint manually and subsequently enter the counted quantities into ERP Enterprise. To perform inventory adjustments You can use inventory adjustments to manually change the inventory registered by ERP Enterprise at a specific stockpoint. You can use inventory adjustment orders to perform inventory adjustments. Easy Adjustment Entry ERP Enterprise allows you make inventory adjustments using easy adjustment entry. Easy adjustment entry can be processed directly or can be processed manually also. If the inventory adjustment concerns a serialized item, you must specify the serial numbers for which the inventory variance occurs. Peg distribution for cycle counting and adjustment orders The implementation of project pegging functionality impacts the cycle counting and adjustment orders process due to inventory variances. |