Re: Creating a Post-Pick Transaction

[Bill Robins <brobins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Craig,

First, some background that I left out.  I keep forgetting that most other 
companies
are not like us, we ship over 80% of our orders same day, 90% within 24 hours.  
It is
this requirement plus the problem with us having to stage the other 10%
simultaneously that causes the problems.  Those other 10% could be staging for 
weeks.

> Basically you have 2 choices without making mods:
>
> 1. Don't do the pick/ship confirm (ORD570) until you physically ship the
> goods. This will leave the allocation but if you move the goods they will
> be physically in the wrong location.

Exactly our problem.


> 2. Use the tranfer transaction to move the goods to a Ship location that
> you set up and then do all allocations from there. You can force
> allocations on the item master file.Then you can happily allocate and leave
> them there as they match the physical location of the goods and then do
> pick/ship confirm when you ship.

Manually allocating orders easily greater than 100 lines is not a process for 
the
timid.  Since we are allocating orders throughout the day, there is always a 
window
between the time we transfer inventory and then reallocate that another order 
could
grab it.  Trying to dance between manual and automatic allocations is some of 
the
pain.

So... Does anyone have another idea other than creating a special transfer
transaction that moves the allocations along with the inventory?

Bill

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