VA Entry Processing Pick Tickets Report overview

Reprinting pick tickets

You can reprint pick tickets as many times as necessary. The number of times a document is printed is tracked. If you print pick tickets more than once, REPRINT prints on subsequent pick tickets. If you are printing pick tickets for a range of orders, pick tickets that are already printed are excluded, unless changes were made to the order. In this case, the changes that were made are included on the reprinted pick ticket. To reprint a pick ticket, change the Reprint option to Yes and include the order number on the list.

External fabrications

After a VA order is entered and a pick ticket printed, the components are picked and sent to an external service vendor. When you ship the components to an external service vendor, you can create a purchase order simultaneously from VA Order Entry. The purchase order is used for receiving the fabricated components into your warehouse when the service vendor is finished with the external (EX) section. One purchase order line item is created for each line item from the EX section of the VA order. A line item that represents the finished or work-in-process product, in the case of multiple processing step, is also created. This line item has only a product quantity, no cost.

VA order stages

A section goes through theses stages as it is processed:

• Stage 1 (Open) when the section is entered
• Stage 3 (Printed) when the pick ticket is printed
• Stage 5 (Shipped) when it is shipped in VA Shipping Feedback Entry
• Stage 7 (Completed) when VA Shipping Feedback Entry is updated
• Stage 8 (Paid) when the invoice from the external service vendor is paid

Surplus components

After a VA item is fabricated, there may be excess components, by-products, or extra inventory. To return this material to the warehouse from an external service vendor, you must set up the VA Inventory Returned table in SA Table Code Value Setup. For a TWL warehouse, set up the WL Inventory-In SA Table Code Values Setup Value for Final External option in SA Administrator Options-Logistics-WL Options. The option creates the section for receiving inventory in (II) for external (EX) fabrications.

When you receive the finished product in the warehouse, you are prompted to enter this surplus material on an II section on a purchase order that is tied to a VA order. The extra inventory received becomes a new II section on the tied VA order and reduces the inventory used to process the order.

Nonstock surplus

You must create a manual Purchase Entry Receipt of Inventory entry to complete the inventory in (II) section for a final external (EX) section if the cost is not available for the nonstock line.

Back orders

You can receive a portion of a VA order when the final section is performed by an external (EX) service vendor, your customer accepts partial shipments, and you can complete a portion of the finished goods with the receipt. If the quantity of the finished product is less than the quantity ordered and an additional quantity of the finished product is to be fabricated, then a VA back order is created. Unlike Order Entry and Warehouse Transfer, there is no administrative option controlling when the VA back order is created. These situations are possible:

• You can build some, but not all, of the finished goods ordered by the customer.
• You must order a nonstock or are waiting to receive a component required to build a finished good.
• A combination of the above.

A back order is initiated when you change the Qtot field for a product that is on an inventory (IN) component line item set to Yes. To maintain data integrity, all data including transactions are moved to a new section number regardless of the status. The SA Administrator Options-Documents-Value Add-Entry Settings Default Action for Short Shipped Sections field determines whether the new section is created automatically or you are prompted when a new section is created.

Value Add lines on an IN section with a back order are included on the Purchase Entry, VA Order Entry, or Transfer Entry Recommended Replenishment Action Report if the tie to the source document existed before the back order was created. The last back order in the chain is the one linked to the so the Value Add line is filled.

Pick ticket format

You can print pick tickets in the standard or non-standard formats for external (EX) and internal (IT) pick tickets, based on your SA Administrator Options-Documents-Value Add-Printing options. You can also print all the headings on the pick tickets or suppress printing them.

For VA orders sourced from sales order lines, the specification section includes the line comments from Sales Order Entry .

TWL

When inventory is available for the fabrication work order, the IN inventory sections print. Printing an external final stage order in VA Entry Processing Pick Tickets Report for a TWL warehouse creates a WL Transactions Inquiry PCK transaction and downloads it to TWL for picking and shipping to the external service vendor for fabrication.