Shipping constraints

In the Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000) session, you can specify constraints in these fields:

• Shipping Constraint

  If a shipping constraint is defined for a manual warehouse order, the shipping constraint is updated to all the outbound order lines. For warehouse orders that originate from a sales order or sales schedule, the shipping constraint is retrieved from Sales. For all other non-manual origins, the default shipping constraint is set to None, which you can adjust as needed.

  These shipping constraints are available:

  • None

    No shipping constraint applies. LN handles the orders based on the available inventory. Sufficient inventory results in a complete shipment.

    In case of insufficient inventory, and:

    • If the Use Contracts for Schedules check box is selected in the Sales Schedule Parameters (tdsls0100s500) session, the back orders are not created automatically in case of partial shipment. In this situation, LN communicates the shipped quantity back to the sales schedule and, based on the shipping details, the user decides on how to deal with the short-shipped quantity. LN clears the Create Backorders check box in the Outbound Order Lines (whinh2120m000) session.

      This process applies only for the sales schedules which are created if the Use Contracts for Schedules check box is selected.

    • If contracts are not used for sales schedules, LN automatically creates a backorder in case of a partial shipment. LN selects the Create Backorders check box in the Outbound Order Lines (whinh2120m000) session.

  • Ship Order Complete

    The total order must be shipped completely in one or more shipments.

    Confirmation of shipments or shipment lines can only be started when there are shipment lines for all order lines.

  • Ship Set Complete

    A warehouse order set is based on the sales order set, which is recorded on the Warehouse order header. More than one warehousing order set can belong to a sales order set. For the origin sales this constraint means that the complete sales order set must be shipped at once, which implies that the related warehouse order set(s) must be shipped completely.

  • Ship Kit Complete

    This can be applied only for a kitting order and means that kits have to be shipped completely. It will be possible to ship less items than ordered but only when the related kit structures are complete with all their components. LN assigns a unique set number to the component lines that constitute a main item/kit, which must be shipped in one set.

    Note: 

    The Ship Kit Complete option is not applicable to:

    • Warehouse orders that are created manually.
    • Non-manual warehouse orders that have an origin other than sales order and sales schedules.

• Minimum Quantity Tolerance

  The greatest negative deviation from the ordered quantity that is tolerated, expressed in a percentage. For example, if the minimum quantity tolerance is 10 % and the ordered quantity is 100, the minimum quantity that is tolerated is 90.

• Maximum Quantity Tolerance

  The greatest positive deviation of the ordered quantity that is tolerated, expressed in a percentage. For example, if the maximum quantity tolerance is 10 % and the ordered quantity is 100, the maximum quantity that is tolerated is 110.

  Note: 

  The minimum and maximum quantity tolerances apply to inbound and outbound order lines. See Minimum Quantity Tolerance and Maximum Quantity Tolerance for further details.

In the Outbound Order Lines (whinh2120m000) session, you can specify constraints in these fields:

• Shipping Constraint

  These shipping constraints are available:

  • None

    No shipping constraint applies.

  • Ship Line Complete

    The total quantity of the outbound order line must be shipped as a single shipment.

  • Ship Line & Cancel

    If sufficient inventory exists, this results in a complete shipment of the outbound order line. A lack of inventory does not result in a back order but in the cancellation of the order for the remaining quantity. LN links a predefined cancel reason to the order line.

  Note: 

  If the Shipping Constraint field of the related warehousing order has a shipping constraint other than None, the shipping constraint is updated to this field. See the field help for further details.

• Package Definition Binding

  If this check box is selected, the handling unit structure of the picked items must match the package definition of the outbound order line. See the field help for further details.

Overrule shipping constraints

To facilitate responding to last-minute changes in shipment planning, for individual shipments, these shipping constraints can be ignored during shipment confirmation:

• The quantity tolerances specified in the Minimum Quantity Tolerance field of the Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000) session.
• The value of the Shipping Constraint field of the Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000) session.
• The setting of the Package Definition Binding check box of the Outbound Order Lines (whinh2120m000) session.

This applies to shipments that include at least one shipment line that is based on a sales schedule.

To ignore the shipment constraints, authorized users must select the Overrule Shipping Constraints check box in the Shipments (whinh4130m000) session or the Shipment (whinh4630m000) session for the relevant shipment.

To authorize users, select the Overrule Shipping Constraints check box in the Warehousing User Profiles (whwmd1140s000) session.