What is the importance of Load, Load Planning Workbench, Load template in both WMSII and WHS?

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Hi Experts,

I would like to know the importance, application and significance of Load, Load Planning Workbench, Load template in both WMSII and WHS. Please help.

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Balaji

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Guy Terry 28,924 Moderator on at

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Hi Balaji,

Those topics are not relevant to WMSII, since they are part of WHS, and you should have WMSII switched off if you have WHS switched on.

For me, a Load is only important if you are planning the contents of a vehicle. If you do not (and in an implementation I am working on, we do not) then I would largely ignore loads, and work only with the Shipment / Load lines.

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Hi Balaji,

As Guy mentioned, Loads play a role when you want to plan for your distribution/transportation vehicles.

For example, in our implementation, we group sales orders which will be delivered with one vehicle in a Load. That is, per delivery vehicle, we generate a Load which consists of the orders the vehicle will deliver.

Per load we can have useful info like total weight and volume (not to exceed vehicle's capacity), millage (haven't used this feature yet), etc.

Therefore, Load planning workbench gives good visibility on sales order lines so we can decide how to group them in Loads. Also it provides visibility of the status of the loads.

We have a Load template for each delivery vehicle. That's how we assign Loads to vehicles.

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Hi Balaji

Load template - load template contains information about equipment and measures such as height, width, depth, and volume of the load. It use to define the capacity of a container that carry goods. System also update if defined template capacity less than the carrying goods.

Load Planning workbench - Load planning workbench basically provide a platform where we can create a load for inbound and outbound process.

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Hi Ahmad, Thanks. From your's and Guy's response, I could understand that Load will come into play only when I use WHS in conjunction with TMS.

Can you please help me with the sequence of process if I want to use Load for my outbound orders.

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Hi Sanjay,

Why is load needed for an Inbound process?

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Hi Balaji,

In standard AX we use Load for inbound process when we use our own transportation services for pick the goods from a vendor in that case we use our own load template / vehicle and load planning process for complete inbound execution of process.

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Sanjay Gupta

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Guy Terry 28,924 Moderator on at

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Hi Balaji,

I think loads are required for some of the inbound processes, such as Vendor ASNs and Licence plate receiving.

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Thanks Sanjay and Guy.

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Hi Balaji,

I think mapping WHS and TMS to your processes requires a better understanding of what you are currently doing and what your requirements are.

Do you want to elaborate on these?

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Hi Ahmad,

It would be great if you can elaborate on these topics.

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