Overview

Release Management is the planning application for customer release orders in Automotive Exchange.

Release Management enables you to manage and monitor the automatic release orders of your customers and trading partners according to the requirements of their business processes.

Customer release orders, typically planning schedules, shipment schedules, and sequence schedules are transformed into ShipmentSchedule, PlanningSchedule, and SequenceSchedule BODs by Transformation Services. Release Management imports these BOD messages from Infor ION.

Imported contracts from the connected ERP system are the basis for the processing of release orders. The new requirements are processed according to the rules that you can set up for specific trading partners and business processes.

Release Management creates a new single plan for the requirements of the imported message type. Release Management validates and prepares the new single plan according to the configured trading partner-specific rules and calculates the in-transit quantities. The requirements of the new single plan are consolidated with existing requirements of the same message type. Release Management then combines the requirements of different message types to a new combined plan and calculates the new net quantity.

Planned and firm requirements of the combined plan are then published in PlanningSchedule, ShipmentSchedule and SequenceSchedule BODs to the connected ERP System.

Shipments and inventory consumption are imported from the ERP system. They are used to update plans, in-transit quantity and CUMs. A new version of the combined plan is created and published.

In an Automotive environment, the Release Management area is connected to Infor ION and exchanges BOD messages with the Transformation Services area and a connected ERP system.