Receiving OT containers in a TWL warehouse

If you use Overseas Trade to track purchase orders for products purchased from an overseas vendor, you can receive the container of goods in your TWL warehouse. The Overseas Trade tracking document is processed as normal through Purchase Receipt of Inventory Entry or EDI Entry Processing Ship Notice Report (EDI 856i ASN). If the product is received in a TWL warehouse, Advance Ship Notice (ASN) documents are created and sent to TWL to allow for manual or automatic receiving. When you run WL Entry Batch Receiving Report, any addons entered for the container in OT Transaction Entry are allocated properly to the purchase order.

Note: These ASN documents are temporary POEBT (POEHB/POELB) records that are used only for recording the receipt of purchase orders related to an Overseas Trade tracking document. They are deleted after receiving is completed for the ASN document in TWL. If you perform receiving against the purchase order in TWL, not the ASN, you must manually delete the POEBT records in Purchase Batch Receiving Entry.

If you receive Overseas Trade containers in a TWL warehouse, you should also review these settings for your overseas vendors:

If the Create TWL ASN option is selected for each overseas vendor in Vendor Setup-Ordering, ASNs are sent to TWL immediately upon receipt in Purchase Receipt of Inventory Entry. If this option is not selected, you can hold the ASNs for review using the Load ASN function on the RF. Then use Shipment ASN to receive the ASN.
To enable automatic receipt of ASNs in TWL, select Yes for the TWL system parameter 6264-Auto Receive ASN. Then, select WL Auto Receive ASN for each overseas vendor in Vendor Setup-Ordering. If you do not use auto receiving of ASNs in TWL, you must manually receive each ASN or receive line by line against the purchase order. You must also manually allocate any PO addons against the OT tracking document.
Select the Block POs option to block individual purchase orders that are associated with an ASN from being sent to TWL in a receipt transaction (RT) when the PO is printed in Distribution SX.e. Instead, all POs for the vendor are contained in the ASN and the receiving is done against this ASN.

As purchase order lines are added or removed from an ASN in OT Transaction Entry, the POEBT records are removed and new ones are created automatically. A message is displayed to remind you to manually update the ASN in TWL. Similarly, if changes are made to a container or shipment ID that results in the creation of unnecessary ASNs, these must be deleted manually. Note that during TWL receiving, all ASNs and their related POEBT records are closed automatically.