Cross dock usage

TWL uses opportunistic cross docking, meaning it analyzes back orders waiting for inventory and recommends moving that inventory quickly from the receiving dock to the shipping dock. This reduces the number of products being staged in the cross dock zones by only staging products with prioritized shipping. You can activate the days forward functionality from the promise date as required using parameter 6266 – Cross Dock Days Forward. The parameter defaults as zero, meaning no date limit.

Cross dock inventory for different cross dock zones can be merged on a pallet when destined for cross docking using parameter 6267 - Cross Dock - Allow Zone Mix. This reduces the number of pallets needed and will allow multiple zones of a cross-dock type to be mixed on the same pallet even if the dock zone restriction parameter 6256 - Receive To Pallets Using Zone Restrictions is set to Yes. Other pallet rules such as lot and status mixing still apply. The parameter will default with no effect on current restriction setup. You can set the parameter to Yes to activate the feature and No to deactivate.

When a receipt is selected in the TWL RF, Product Warehouse Product Setup data is checked to see if there is any demand or back order quantity for the product to determine a cross dock request quantity. Demand is only inquired based on parameter 6263 – Cross Dock-Include Demand Quantity. If parameter 6266 – Cross Dock Days Forward is greater than zero and it is not for a KP or a Purchase Order Return since they do not have a promise date, it will now calculate the demand or back order quantity using only orders with a promise date within the days indicated. This will set the base expected Cross Dock Quantity.

The following adjustments are made to this expected Cross Dock Quantity:

• Orders in TWL that have not been dropped for picking are also used to increase the expected Cross Dock Quantity. If parameter 6266 has a value greater than 0 and it is not a KP or a Purchase Order Return, it will retrieve the promise date for those orders excluding quantities from orders outside of the promise date window. This will increase the expected Cross Dock Quantity.
• Active WL Transaction Inquiry receipts are reviewed to retrieve received inventory waiting for WL Entry Batch Receiving and reduce the expected Cross Dock Quantity by that amount.
• Pending quantity from inventory waiting to go to cross dock locations or already waiting in cross dock locations is also used to reduce the expected Cross Dock Quantity. Pending quantity is only used for adjustment if it is less than or equal to the receipts that have not been closed yet. If Pending is greater, it means that WL Transaction Inquiry, the back-order quantity, or the demand quantity has already been adjusted.

At this point, this calculated expected Cross Dock Quantity is what is used to determine whether to suggest cross docking after the user has entered the stock status during receiving.