Warehousing Master Data

Warehousing Master Data constitutes the central part of Warehousing, and is used to create master data for the transactions in LN for which a warehousing process is mandatory.

• Items - Warehousing

  In Items - Warehousing, you define and maintain warehousing-specific data for all items used in Warehousing. This data is required for all activities involved in warehouse processing. In Item Data by Warehouse, you can define item data for specific warehouses.

• Serialized items

  In Warehousing, you can use serial numbers to track serialized items through receipts, transfers, storage, or issues, the latter of which is mandatory. You can also track serialized items back to their source. The source of a serialized item is, for example, the purchase order or the production order that caused the receipt of the serialized item, or the sales order or the work order that caused the issue of the serialized item.

• Lot and serial registration templates

  Lot and serial registration templates are used to specify the order origins and transaction types for which serial and/or lot registration must take place. This applies to lot and serial numbers that are not registered in inventory but registered during issue or during both receipt and issue.

• Lot control

  Lot control enables you to trace the origin of incoming and outgoing lots, and to find out where these lots are used. You can record information about each lot, such as lot number, buy-from business partner, manufacturer, and certificate number. This information is used for quality assurance. If the item is not lot controlled, effectivity units are not recorded in the warehouse inventory.

• Handling units

  A handling unit is a uniquely identifiable physical unit that consists of packaging and contents. A handling unit can contain items registered in Warehousing and can contain other handling units.

• Package definitions

  A configuration of items and their packaging. A package definition for an item can be, for example, a pallet that contains 12 boxes and each box contains 4 pieces. The package definition specifies how the items must be packed. If you use handling units, the package definition determines the handling unit structure and the packaging details for the handling units that are used to pack the items.

• Auxiliary packaging

  You can define a flexible setup to specify the auxiliary packaging quantity, based on the content, packaging item, and child packaging item, in the handling unit template node. You can implement this functionality in the Handling Unit Template Node - Auxiliary Packaging (whwmd4162m000) session.

• Business Partner Packaging Item Codes (whwmd4506m000)

  Packaging item codes and packaging item classifications are defined for specific business partners in the Business Partner Packaging Item Codes (whwmd4506m000) session. These packaging item codes or packaging item classifications are used by default to identify the business partners' packaging items. If not present, the business partner item codes defined in the Item Code System - Items (tcibd0104m000) session are used.

• Full packaging of material

  This constraint can be applied to the material quantities and packing method that is received by customers. For example, car manufacturers frequently accept only full packaging material, such as crates, boxes and pallets. At each packaging level in a packaging structure, you can specify whether full packaging is applicable for all the levels within the packaging structure or only for specific levels.

• Shipping material accounts

  Shipping material accounts are used to register packaging items issued and received per address, for the purpose of communicating with business partners about the quantities of packaging items and their payments and to monitor packaging material balances.

  If an external business partner such as a PSP owns the packaging materials, you can create a dedicated shipping material account for this business partner. In this account, you can specify that both the packaging material transactions between your organization and the PSP and those between your organization and your customers or suppliers are recorded.

  Also, you can view the PSP's administration of the packing materials transactions and, if required, reconcile it with your own administration.

• Replenishment matrices

  Replenishment matrices are used to automatically control the quantity of items on pick locations. Based on a replenishment matrix, you can automatically generate warehousing orders to replenish pick locations, and also directly process the orders. Replenishment matrices are defined by linking pick locations to bulk locations.

• Warehouses

  The warehouse is the place where all received goods are stored originating from purchase, production, and so on. These goods are retrieved from the warehouse later on for production, sales, service, or transport to another warehouse. You can optionally divide a warehouse into locations or zones.

• Locations

  Locations are the sections of the warehouse where items are actually stored. Locations can optionally be assigned directly to an item or item group, or by means of storage conditions. Note that the use of locations within a warehouse is not mandatory. Locations can have the following types:

  • Receiving location
  • Inspection location
  • Bulk location
  • Staging location
  • Pick location
  • Quarantine location

• Zones

  A zone is a part of the warehouse that can be assigned to specific employees or vehicles. Each location can be assigned to a zone. Locations that work with other locations or locations with identical or similar purposes can be grouped into zones.

• Warehousing procedures

  A warehousing procedure includes various steps called activities that control the processing of warehousing orders or handling units.

• Warehousing order types

  A code that identifies the type of a warehousing order. Warehousing order types are classified by inventory transaction type. The inventory transaction type that you add to a warehousing order type determines the type of warehousing procedure(s) that you can link to the warehousing order type. The default warehousing procedure that you link to a warehousing order type determines how the warehousing orders or handling units to which the order type is allocated are processed in the warehouse, although you can modify the default procedure for individual warehousing orders or order lines.

• Update, cancel or remove outbound order lines

  On the Outbound Process tab of the Warehousing Order Types (whinh0110m000) session, you can specify up to which stage in the outbound process it is allowed to update, cancel or remove outbound order lines.

• Assembly kits

  An Assembly kit is an order-dependent set of items that must be supplied together to the shop-floor warehouse. To specify the items that must be part of an assembly kit, you must link the assembly kit to a warehouse and item combination. You can only use assembly kits if the supply method for the warehouse and item combination is order controlled/SILS.

• Forecast methods

  LN provides various forecast methods, which you can finetune to meet your organization's requirements.

• Inventory valuation

  A method to calculate the inventory value. The inventory is valued at either its fixed price or its actual receipt price. Because the inventory value can change with time, the age of the inventory must be recorded. The following inventory valuation methods are available:

  • Standard Cost
  • Moving Average Unit Cost (MAUC)
  • First In First Out (FIFO)
  • Last In First Out (LIFO)
  • Lot Price (Lot)
  • Serial Price (Serial)

• Label layout and printing

  You can use label layout and printing to create and maintain labels for different purposes related to different processes in LN.

• Lineside labeling

  Various fields of the sold-to business partner can be printed on container labels when the receipt of end items from production is confirmed. The purpose is to reduce mislabeling by attaching container labels during production or receipt rather than at the shipping dock.

• Storage conditions

  You can use storage conditions to avoid the storage of items at unsuitable locations.

• Error recovery

  You can use the following options to recover information that was lost or damaged on account of a calamity:

  • Rebuild Planned Inventory Transactions
  • Check and Repair Inventory (whwmd6290m000)
  • Check and Repair Quantity in Transit
  • Check and Repair Project Cost Peg Transfer Balances (whwmd2260m100)

• Integration with WMS

  You can set parameters for integration with the Infor Warehouse Management Module or any other Warehouse Management System (WMS).