DMS planning and processing

DMS upon Receipt

DMS planning comprises the following steps:

1. Receive items using the Warehouse Receipt (whinh3512m000) session.
2. Start the Direct Material Supply Distribution (whinh6130m000) session. You can do this at various moments and in several ways after you confirm receipt.

3. DMS does the following:

   • Determines demand from each warehouse within the warehouse supply structure.
   • Nets demand against on hand stock and open (cross-dock) orders.
   • Prioritizes demand based on planning priority rules.
   • Assigns received goods to demand, according to priority.
   • Assigns any on hand inventory to demand, according to priority.
4. Users can change priorities and reassign quantities.
5. Users must approve the assigned quantities.
6. Users can process assigned quantities according to the priorities.

   As a result, LN will generate:

   • Cross-dock orders to cross-dock goods within the supply warehouse and destination warehouses.
   • Transfer orders to transfer the assigned quantities to the other warehouses.
   • Outbound advice to outbound the assigned on hand inventory.

DMS upon JSC Receipt

For JSC production orders, DMS planning can be run:

• After reporting an operation complete

  If DMS is a step in the routing and if an operation has the DMS on Completion check box selected, DMS runs automatically after reporting the operation complete. In this case, however, no cross-dock orders and/or transfer orders will be generated. Instead, the Direct Material Supply Distribution (whinh6130m000) session will only show current demand and the distribution of supply, thus offering a preview of the DMS run during or after receipt.

• During or after confirm receipt

  The DMS upon JSC Receipt setting indicates whether and, if so, in what way, DMS will be run when receiving an SFC production order. Otherwise, DMS upon JSC Receipt comprises the same steps as DMS upon Receipt.

DMS on Inventory

You can run DMS planning in various situations:

• To apply DMS planning to the inventory of the supply warehouse only, users can select one or more inventory lines in the Warehouse - Item Inventory (whwmd2515m000) session, and then click Direct Material Supply Distribution on the appropriate menu.
• In the Generate Outbound Advice (whinh4201m000) session, users can generate outbound advice for DMS items according to DMS planning rules.
• Upon receipt of items, depending on the DMS upon Receipt and DMS upon JSC Receipt settings.

In any situation, transfer orders can be generated to transfer the inventory to warehouses with the highest-priority demand.

DMS processing

Regardless of the way in which DMS planning is carried out but depending on the situation, cross-dock orders, transfer orders, and outbound advice can be generated.

DMS upon Receipt

If received goods are required in other warehouses than the supply warehouse, cross-dock orders are generated to cross-dock the goods in the supply warehouse, and transfer orders are generated to transfer the goods to the other warehouses.

DMS on Inventory and outbound advice according to DMS

If you run DMS on inventory or through generate outbound advice, no cross-dock orders are generated. Instead, outbound advice are generated to get the goods out of the warehouse, and transfer orders will be generated to transfer the goods to other warehouses.

Inbounding goods

If demand with the highest priority is in the supply warehouse itself, the goods will be inbounded instead of transferred to other warehouses. The goods can also be cross-docked in the warehouse for actual demand orders on the warehouse.