Releasing material

Unblock or release material in the warehouse is part of the material issue procedure. If material is released, the warehouse employees are notified to start the warehouse outbound procedure.

To specify wether the material must be released manually or automatically:

  • Direct Initiate Inventory Issue selected

    LN automatically unblocks the warehouse order line for the material during production order release.
  • Direct Initiate Inventory Issue cleared

    You must release the material manually. To unblock the material's warehouse order line, you must either use the Initiate Inventory Issue (tisfc0207m000) session, or click Transfer Subseq. Delivery to Issue in the Material to Issue for Production Orders (ticst0101m100) session. LN now moves the material quantity from the To Issue field to the To Issue by Warehousing field.
  • The activated warehousing order line:

    • Issues the requested quantity.
    • Increases the value in the Actual Quantity field by the issued quantity.
    • Subtracts the issued quantity from the To Issue by Warehousing field.

Set the Direct Initiate Inventory Issue check boxYou can set the Direct Initiate Inventory Issue check box on three levels to determine whether the material must be unblocked manually or automatically:

  • In the Item - Production (tiipd0101m000) session, where you can set the default value for a specific item, or in the Item - Production Defaults (tiipd0102m000) session, where you can set the default value for a specific item group.
  • In the Estimated Materials (ticst0101m000) session, where a production planner can determine whether the material must be unblocked manually or automatically.
  • In the Material to Issue for Production Orders (ticst0101m100) session, where a person on the job shop can determine whether the material must be unblocked manually or automatically.