VMI in Order Management

New in Infor LN FP5

Infor LN FP5 supports numerous vendor managed inventory (VMI) scenarios.

For more information on VMI and its scenarios, refer to the following topics:

To support the various (new) VMI scenarios, several new sessions, fields, and form commands are introduced in the Order Management package of Infor LN FP5.

This differences topic lists the most important ones by Order Management module.

Item Purchase Data and Item Sales Data

The following fields are new:

Purchase Control

New fields

The following fields are new in the following sessions:

New form commands

Warehousing Receipt and Purchase Payment are new origins for a purchase order. Therefore, the following commands are introduced in Infor LN FP5:

These new commands are available in the following sessions:

  • Purchase Orders (tdpur4100m000)
  • Purchase Order Lines (tdpur4101m000)
  • Purchase Order Lines Monitor (tdpur4501m500)
  • Purchase Orders - Overview (tdpur4500m500)
  • Purchase Order Lines - Overview by Order (tdpur4501m600)
  • Purchase Order History (tdpur4550m000)
  • Purchase Order Line History (tdpur4551m000)
Sales Control

New fields

The following fields are new in the following sessions:

Note
  • Planning is a new origin for a sales order/schedule.
  • Warehousing Transfer is a new type of order to which a sales schedule (line) can be released.
Changed in Infor LN FP5

The new VMI functionality has resulted in the expiration of the following sessions in Order Management:

  • Patterns (tdipu0120m000)
  • Available Exceptions (tdipu0121m000)
  • Unavailable Exceptions (tdipu0122m000)
  • Non-recurring Patterns (tdipu0123m000)
  • Print Patterns (tdipu0420m000)

You can now define patterns in the Calendars and Periods module of Common. For more information, refer to To define patterns.