VMI in Warehouse Management

New in Infor LN FP5

Previous releases of LN supported basic consignment functionality. For more information, refer to Consignment. In Infor LN FP5, functionality is introduced that supports numerous vendor managed inventory (VMI) scenarios.

In Warehousing, supporting VMI scenarios revolves around handling the ownership of goods during warehouse processing. For this purpose, LN distinguishes the following types of ownership:

To support the new ownership functionality in Warehousing, various new sessions have been introduced, of which the following are the most important: