Hello,
My customer needs to process around 4000 sales order lines each day. Most of the orders come in with EDI automatically. Number of lines on an order varies from 1 to proximately 50 lines. Quantities on the lines are always different, almost never full boxes or cartons. Normally, there is sufficient on-hand stock. If not, they’ll have it the next day or at least the day after.
Their main requirements are:
- No backorders to avoid extra transportation cost. They are allowed to ship one day later a complete order instead of a partial shipment today and another tomorrow.
- Creation of a load should be avoided if, at the end, the orders on the shipment for that load cannot be shipped completely.
- An order should only be reserved if we are sure that the whole order can be reserved. This to avoid that stock is blocked due to reservation until other missing items on the order become available.
Current process is
- (1) Sales orders creation
- (2) Reserve sales orders with “Inventory Management” – “Sales Order Picking”
- (3) Load Planning Workbench: create load for selection of orders
- (4) Validate Load
- (5) Select load in load planning workbench and Release to Warehouse
Fulfillment policies of 100% are setup. When a load is validated (step 4 above), the system will stop the creation of shipments and work if the complete order cannot be picked. This is ok but a bit late for them.
Reservation of the order lines is not done automatically at order creation because, at that moment, you don’t know if the complete order can be reserved.
In the screen “Release sales order picking”, you have a column “Possible delivery percentage” for the complete order but this is not perfect. Example: even if you have reserved the complete order, but the total demand for an item (for all open orders) is more than the quantity available for reservation, the possible delivery % is lower than 100.
Questions:
- Do you have a suggestion to change the process of order reservation? Target is 100% reservation or no reservation, before loads are created.
- I have my doubts about the “Possible delivery %” calculation. For me, the calculation seems to be wrong.
- Any other ideas or maybe suggestion for add-on are also welcome.
Best regards,
Dany Leemans
