Prerequisite tasks
This section provides a brief summary of prerequisite tasks that enable TWL to process prebuilt kits. The correct setup of a prebuilt kit ensures these tasks or workflows have been followed:
- A warehouse zone specific to work center creation has been established. This action enables you to segregate work in process (WIP) inventory that is not available for picking or putaway.
- Departments have been setup as work centers and these centers have been assigned to the new warehouse zone.
- Employees have been assigned to the work center department so they can access and build the prebuilt kits.
- In Product Setup, products setup as prebuilt for KP or VA internal processing must be routed through a work center to create the product.
- In Product Warehouse Product Setup-Warehouse Logistics, the Kit Build Department determines where in TWL the finished product is to be built.
- A work order from the KP or VA Internal processing is dropped in Order Drop Manager. The work order is routed to the work center that is defined on the product. All employees with access to that work center can process the work order.
Product and work center setup
When TWL is implemented for your company, item records are set up in the system with these setup functions:
- Product Setup
- Product Catalog Setup
- Product Warehouse Product Setup
- Product Warehouse Description Setup
Item records are also known as product records. These item records are considered when planning the warehouse layout and locations. Additionally, a work center is set up for the TWL warehouse, and the Kit Build Department is associated with the product and warehouse.
Set up a kit product component as a stock product in Product Setup and in Product Warehouse Product Setup before you set up the kit in KP Components Setup. A prebuilt kit is assembled from a work order and is placed in inventory to be sold at a later date.
See the online Help for instructions on setting up a prebuilt or build-on-demand kit.
Origination of an order for a kit product
An order for a kit can originate in Sales Order Entry. The order is released to TWL when the order is printed. An order from a kit can also originate from a work order. Although work orders are usually created through the KP Entry Recommended Work Orders Report process, you can also manually enter work orders in KP Work Order Center Entry. When the work order is printed in the KP Entry Print Work Orders Report, the work order is released to TWL.
See the online Help for instructions on selling a kit and creating a work order.
Work order drop
When a work order is dropped from the Order Drop Manager, the components are reserved and are displayed on a browse window in the RF function. Parameter 2054, Prebuilt Kit Without Inventory, determines whether a prebuilt kit drops to the floor if a required component is not in stock according to TWL. Whether a component is required is defined in KP Components Setup.
See the Infor Distribution SX.e Total Warehouse Logistics User Guide for Managing Orders for instructions on dropping a work order.
Tasks that are performed on the RF
Perform these tasks on the RF:
- Stage the components to move into the kit build department
- Receive the components in the kit build department
- Complete the work order
- Move the finished kits from the kit build department to a bin location in the warehouse, where they can be picked, packed, and shipped
Final update
Run the WL Entry Batch Receiving Report to update the system.