RE: Creating a Post-Pick Transaction

["Bailey, Dick" <Dick_Bailey@xxxxxxxx>]

        We have a similar concern - and are implementing BPCS 6.02
(AS/400) - trying to figure out a solution. We also want to allocate
material, Pick Release and pick it, physically move it to a shipping
location where it may stand for a few days waiting for a full truckload
to that destination.
        Does anyone see a problem with moving it to locations in the
shipping area so we can find it when we need it, and then moving it back
to the allocated location when we move it to a shipping dock, just
before we do the Pick Confirm?
        (We're talking about machines, in relatively small quantities,
not component parts. I wouldn't suggest it on parts.)

        Dick Bailey

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Bill Robins [SMTP:brobins@ix.netcom.com]
        Sent:   Tuesday, August 25, 1998 8:22 AM
        To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Creating a Post-Pick Transaction

        V4.0.5... We are having some trouble trying to maintain our
inventory sanity when
        assembling an order.  When we pull the inventory and put in on a
pallet, obviously
        the system doesn't know that that inventory is still there
because there wasn't a
        transaction that relieved it.  We can't transfer the inventory
because the allocation
        doesn't move with transfer (that we know of).  It had been
suggested that we treat
        the B transaction as a pick transaction and then "intelligently"
invoice our orders.
        The accounting people don't want to have an imbalance between
what has shipped and
        what has been invoiced at month end.  Plus, it is faking the
system out -- we really
        didn't ship it, we just put it aside.

        We would really like the ability to relieve the inventory from
the location we pick
        from, but keep it allocated to the order.  What we envision at
this point might be to
        have a "special" inventory transfer transaction that will also
move the allocations
        to this new location.

        Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with this scenario?

        Bill

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