Cross-docking handling units and location control

In warehouses without locations, inbound advice is not mandatory. In location-controlled warehouses, inbound order lines that must be cross-docked are advised to a staging location. When the receipt is confirmed, the cross-dock order lines are created. If inbound advice is an automatic activity according to the setup of the warehousing procedure, the inbound advice lines are also created. Otherwise, the user must manually create the inbound advice lines.

A handling unit is present on multiple inbound advices or multiple advice lines of an inbound advice when part of a handling unit is advised to a staging location to be cross-docked and the remainder is advised to a storage location.

Example

Receipt line 00010 contains handling unit HU00001, which contains 50 items A. Outbound order line 00101 lists 20 items A.

To fulfill outbound order line 00101, 20 items A must be cross-docked because item A is not present in inventory. This is accomplished by removing 20 items A from HU00001 and cross-docking these items without handling units to outbound order line 00101, and advising HU00001 with the remaining items A to the storage location:

Inbound advice	From Handling Unit	To Handling Unit	Item quantity	From Location	To Location
INB00001/1	HU00001		20 item A	Receive A	Staging B
INB00001/2	HU00001	HU00001	30 item A	Receive A	Storage A

If the Generate Handling Unit Automatically during Picking check box is selected for the relevant warehouses in the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session, handling units are generated for the shipment line.