Fulfillment plans - integration of Inventory Control Manager (ICM) with LN

To use fulfillment plans, you must set the master data parameters. For more information, refer to Integration with Fulfillment Planning.

ICM executes a planning and release cycle for fulfillment plans. An important concept in this cycle is the release horizon, which indicates a point in time some days after today. Fulfillment Lines that are within the release horizon are set to status Released, and then are an indication for shipping systems that the related quantity can be issued at the indicated date. Released fulfillment lines are generally not changed. Fulfillment plan lines with Planned status are for information purpose only, and are not used in Warehousing processes. Planned fulfillment lines can change at any moment.

The fulfillment plan can be archived and deleted for order lines that have been shipped or when no order lines are present.

When you run the Generate Outbound Advice (whinh4201m000) session, the outbound quantity and the planned delivery date are taken from the fulfillment plan lines with the Released status. If the Use Fulfillment Plan check box is selected for an item in the Outbound Order Lines (whinh2120m000) session and no released fulfillment plan line exists, LN does not allow you to generate an outbound advice. To manually overrule the use of the fulfillment plan for individual outbound order lines, you can select the Overrule Fulfillment Plan check box in the Outbound Order Lines (whinh2120m000) session. When you overrule a fulfillment line, LN displays a warning that a fulfillment plan is leading for generating outbound advice. When the Overrule Fulfillment Plan check box is selected, LN generates the outbound advice without taking the fulfillment plan into account.

If the Use Fulfillment Plan check box is clear, LN does not take the fulfillment plan into account.

When multiple fulfillment lines are in the outbound advice selection range, the total quantity of the lines will be taken into account for advice generation.

If outbound advice is processed directly via a appropriate option, using non-consecutive record selection or during automatic order processing, the advice is limited to the fulfillment plans of the current day. That is all fulfillment lines with a shipping date up to 24:00 of the current day. You cannot set the date range.

If outbound advice is created manually, the default quantity will be based on the fulfillment plan. The user can increase the quantity of the outbound advice.

For cross-dock orders, the delivery date and quantity of the outbound orders must be taken from the fulfillment plan. Cross dock orders will be generated for the outbound order line. Cross dock order lines will be generated for the released quantity on the fulfillment lines of that outbound order line. The quantity that can be cross docked must be the total released quantity in the cross dock time fence minus the quantity of the outbound line already in process.

When LN generates cross-dock order lines, and a cross-docking time fence has been set up, the shipping date of every released fulfillment plan line is taken into account separately. If cross-docking is allowed for the shipping date according to the cross-docking time fence, a cross-dock order line is generated for the shipping quantity.

For direct material supply, the delivery date and quantity of the demand orders must be taken from the fulfillment plan. Each released line within the planning horizon will result in a demand line. This means every fulfillment plan line is handled as a separate demand. The net required quantity and priority is determined as per the fulfillment plan line. The demand horizon will be applied on every fulfillment plan line separately. The quantity of the outbound order line that is already in the outbound process or in the cross docking process will be deducted from the earliest fulfillment lines, leaving only fulfillment lines that need supply.

To determine the priority, DMS will only take the shipping date into account when it is applied to a fulfillment plan. So, the priority definition as defined for the warehouse/item combination is ignored in this case.

During load planning and freight order clustering, the fulfillment plan must be taken into account for items that have the Use Fulfillment Plan check box selected. For more information, refer to Integration with Fulfillment Planning. Each fulfillment plan line with status Released must be used, independent from the data of the freight order line. The planned lines are not be taken into account because these lines are subject to change by the ICM application.

For load planning, the creation of the combined freight orders is based on the lines of the fulfillment plan. For freight order clustering processes, only the released fulfillment plan lines or the outbound order lines with the Overrule Fulfillment Plan check box selected must be clustered.

When a fulfillment plan with the Released status is found, the quantity of the fulfillment plan and the shipping date must be used to plan/cluster the freight order lines that are linked to this outbound order line. When the Overrule Fulfillment Plan check box is selected, the original quantity of the outbound order line, and therefore the freight order line, must be used.