Hello,
I have a case where the customer have a small buffer area next to the production line where frequently used items are stored. When the on-hand of these items drops below a minimum limit, they must be replenished from warehouse locations to the production area.
Further more, the pallets sometimes contain less the what is specified on the unit conversion (e.g. 790 kg instead of 800 kg) but we still need to control that there is not picked units from another pallet to reach the 800 kg.
Is it possible to configure the system to make the replenishment work without creating work for the whole demand?
The example is as following:
- Physical inventory on production location is 500 kg
- The production location has a mix of 800 kg and max of 1600 kg
- Unit conversion on the item is 1 PL = 800 kg
- The replenishment template is set to min 1 PL and max 2 PL
- The replenishment template is set to Round down
- The demand from the min/max replenishment is 800 kg = 1 PL
- In the warehouse location there are two pallets with 790 kg on each (due to items being scraped does the pallets not contain 800 kg, the scrap amount fluctuates)
- Location directive setup is allow split and the strategy to Round up to full LP
It is desired to create work for only one pallet with 790 kg and ignore the 10 kg left on the demand as two pallets would exceed the max limit (790 + 790 + 500 = 2080 kg) on the production location.
With the current setup the system creates work for both the pallets with 790 kg which is not acceptable for the customer.
It is not desired to split the work but if it is set to Not allow split the work is not created because there are no pallets on the warehouse location that contain the 800 kg.
Neither is it an option to change the Location directive strategy to None as it results in partial picking from pallets (picking the 790 kg from pallet A and 10 kg from pallet B).
However this doesn't seem to be possible as the replenishment template creates a demand for 800 kg and fails to create work if this is not meet.
Hope to hear if you have any input for this scenario.
