Combining planned PRP warehouse orders
A planned PRP order is created based on a budget requirement and is an order advise that you can transfer to Procurement or Warehousing.
Planned PRP warehouse orders generated using the Generate Planned PRP Orders (tppss6200m000) session or manually created using the Planned PRP Warehouse Order (tppss6115m000), are first confirmed using the Approve Planned PRP Warehouse Orders (tppss6225m000) session. These confirmed PRP warehouse orders are then transferred to Warehousing as actual orders.
In Procurement, PRP advises can be combined using the Commingle option, thereby limiting the number of orders. The Commingling functionality is not applicable for Warehousing. Therefore, each warehouse order must be processed separately, which incurs some administrative overhead.
You can combine the Planned PRP warehouse orders only if the Combine Orders check box is selected in the Transfer Planned PRP Warehouse Orders (tppss6235m000) session.
The Planned PRP warehouse orders can be combined into one warehouse order only if:
- The ship-to and ship-from addresses are the same for all the orders.
- Planned receipt dates are within a specified time period.
You can combine the Planned PRP orders as follows:
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Across Projects
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By Projects
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By Element
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By Activity
Example: This table displays the Project, Element and Activity based on which the order combinations are determined:
| check box is Project | Element | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| A | X1 | Y1 |
| A | X2 | Y2 |
| A | X2 | Y1 |
| B | X1 | Y1 |
| B | X2 | Y1 |
This table displays the order combinations and the number of combined orders generated based of the settings in the Transfer Planned PRP Warehouse Orders (tppss6235m000) session:
| Across Projects | By Projects | Element | Activity | No. of combined orders generated | Order combinations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | -- | No | No | 1 | All lines are combined on one order |
| Yes | -- | No | Yes | 2 | Combined by Y1 and Combined by Y2 |
| Yes | -- | Yes | No | 2 | Combined by X1 Combined by X2 |
| Yes | -- | Yes | Yes | 3 | Combined by X1-Y1 Combined by X2-Y2 Combined by X2-Y1 |
| -- | Yes | No | No | 2 | |
| -- | Yes | No | Yes | 3 | Combined by A-Y1 Combined by A-Y2 Combined by B-Y1 |
| -- | Yes | Yes | No | 4 | Combined by A-X1 Combined by A-X2 Combined by B-X1 Combined by B-X2 |
| -- | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | Combined by A-X1-Y1 Combined by A-X2-Y2 Combined by B-X2-Y1 Combined by B-X1-Y1 Combined by B-X2-Y1 |