Supply location and demand location

In the Item Data by Warehouse (whwmd2510m000) session, you can define the following locations, particularly for DMS:

  • DMS Supply Location

    The default location from which materials for a production order are supplied. If the warehouse is DMS Supplied, this location appears on the material line of a production order.

    Usually, the supply location is a location in the shop floor warehouse near the work center.

  • DMS Demand Location

    The default location to which the end item of a production order is supplied. If the warehouse is DMS Supplied, this location appears on the production order header.

    To DMS, the production order represents demand on the shop floor warehouse.

Goods flow

If materials are received in the main warehouse and these materials are supplied to the shop floor warehouse by means of a DMS run, the DMS run creates a transfer order from the main warehouse to the shop floor warehouse with the DMS supply location as defined for the material and the shop floor (destination) warehouse.

The following figure illustrates this flow of goods.

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Explanation

  • WH1 is the warehouse where the materials are received and from which the materials are distributed.
  • WH2 is the shop floor warehouse with supply location L28.
  • After the production order is finished, the end item is received in the destination location as defined for the end item and destination warehouse. The destination warehouse can be the shop floor warehouse itself or another warehouse.

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