Warehousing orders

Every inventory transaction in Warehousing is initiated and controlled by a warehousing order. From a simple transfer to a complicated receipt, one or more warehousing orders control the movement of inventory and account for it. Warehousing orders can be generated either manually in Warehousing or automatically from within other LN packages or modules. For example, a sales order can automatically trigger a warehousing order of type Issue. A purchase order can automatically trigger an order of type Receipt. The Inventory Planning module of Warehousing tracks planned inventory transactions, which are converted to warehousing orders.

Why warehousing orders?

Warehousing orders are needed to register different types of inventory transactions. These orders are also needed to centralize warehousing activities, such as the following:

  • Registering actual issues and receipts
  • Printing warehousing documents
  • Confirming and approving issues and receipts
  • Tracking warehousing transactions
Warehousing order characteristics

A warehousing order can contain multiple warehousing-order lines. Each warehousing order line can contain only one item. The various order lines of one warehousing order can contain different items or the same items.

The inventory transaction type of a warehousing order is determined by the originating order from which the warehousing order results. If you manually enter a warehousing order, you must manually specify the inventory transaction type.

The warehousing order type of a warehousing order determines the default procedure to handle inventory transactions, but for individual warehousing orders or warehousing order lines of this order type you can adjust the default procedure. For further information, see To define warehousing procedures. For manually created warehousing orders, you must manually specify the warehousing order type. For warehousing orders generated from orders originating from other packages, LN retrieves the warehousing order type as follows:

  • If the order origin is Purchase or Purchase Schedule and the order origin has a purchase order type to which a warehousing order type is linked, LN retrieves this warehousing order type for the warehousing order. You can link a warehousing order type to a purchase order type in the Purchase Order Types (tdpur0194m000) session.
  • If the order origin is Sales or Sales Schedule and the order origin has a sales order type to which a warehousing order type is linked, LN retrieves this warehousing order type for the warehousing order. You can link a warehousing order type to a sales order type in the Sales Order Types (tdsls0594m000) session.
  • In all other cases, even if no warehousing order type is specified in the above mentioned cases, the warehousing order type is determined by the inventory transaction type. You can specify the default warehousing order type for each inventory-transaction type in the Default Order Types by Origin (whinh0120m000) session.
Note

For warehousing orders having order origin Sales, Sales Schedule and the orders that are created manually, you can change the outbound order line data based on the value you set for the Allow Updating Outbound Order Lines upto and including field in the Warehousing Order Types (whinh0110m000) session. This functionality is applicable only for the order types of the inventory transaction types Issue and Transfer.

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