Re: item status mismatch...

This question thread has me to where I have to post an inquiry regarding
this.

My question for the group is regarding the use of "Receive to Dock" and
"Receive to Inspect" and so forth. We have a VERY tight turnaround
required for getting our parts and material delivered and on-hand for
issuing to the floor. We discovered that it was too time consuming for us
to process all the transactions ("RD", "RI", then "RP") for the flow,
especially for parts delivered the same day as our MRP runs.

Unless something has changed that I am not aware of (which is certainly
possible, even likely!), XA doesn't count it as on-hand until the RP is
done. Our inspection process takes up to one full business day. To get
around that, we have set up a "receipt location" to show that the part is
here but not inspected. We don't reject a lot, so we can generally assume
that if it's here, it's good. (Yes, we get burned on that, but not often.)
We had a lot more problems with the stuff actually being here, but MRP
thought it was late because it hadn't been received to stock yet, and the
buyers would get expedite messages for stuff that's here.

Isn't this a problem for your companies? Or has this been handled some
other way that I haven't noticed? I will admit that I don't go through
every new thing that comes out....

Dale Gindlesperger
IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
258 Beacon Street
Somerset, PA 15501