Goods or inventory in transit

In LN, a distinction is made between goods in transit and in-transit inventory.

Goods in transit are purchased items that are on their way from the supplier to your warehouse. In-transit inventory is a quantity of items listed on transfer orders that are issued from the origin warehouse but have not yet been received in the destination warehouse.

Goods in transit

Goods in transit are purchased items listed on ASNs related to purchase orders or purchase schedules that are issued by the supplier but have not yet been received in the own warehouse.

The quantities of the goods in transit are displayed in the Goods in Transit fields of the sessions related to these objects:

Purchase order lines
Purchase schedule lines
The inbound order lines created from the purchase order lines and purchase schedule lines
Receipt lines
Inventory by item and warehouse
Inventory by company
Inventory by site
Planned inventory transactions

In these sessions, you can zoom to the ASN lines related to individual purchase order lines or purchase schedule lines.

Goods in transit quantities

To calculate the goods in transit quantities, the total received ASN quantity is subtracted from the total issued ASN quantity.

To avoid unlikely results, the calculated goods in-transit quantities cannot be negative. A negative outcome could result, for example, if an ASN listed a lower quantity than the quantity actually shipped on account of a typing error. When the quantity actually shipped is received, the received quantity would be greater than the quantity erroneously listed on the ASN.

If a shipment notice line is removed, the quantity of the goods in transit of the shipment notice line is subtracted from the total quantity of the goods in transit of the related order line.

Example

ASN PUR ABC is related to Purchase order line A. The quantity of the goods in transit of ASN PUR ABC is 100. The quantity of ASN PUR ABC line 20 is 35. Now line 20 is removed from ASN PUR ABC. The resulting goods in transit quantity of ASN PUR ABC is 65.

If the status of an ASN is set to Received, the quantity of the goods in transit of the ASN becomes 0 (zero). For received ASNs, some of the ASN lines can be partially received if the related receipt lines are split. You can still receive the open quantities.

First shipment notice

Multiple shipment notice lines can be sent for an individual purchase order line, or purchase schedule line.

For example, the supplier sends multiple ASNs to inform the customer of partial deliveries for an individual purchase order, or the customer creates a duplicate of an ASN for the quantities whose receipt is to be processed on the next day.

To keep track of the ASNs present for an order line or schedule line, the original ASN is displayed in the First Shipment field of the purchase order lines, purchase schedule lines, or inbound order lines sessions.

If the first shipment notice line is removed, the First Shipment field shows the shipment notice with the earliest creation date of the remaining shipment notices.

In-transit inventory

In-transit inventory is inventory listed on transfer orders that is issued from the origin warehouse but that is not yet received in the destination warehouse.

Note: Goods in-transit quantities and items issued to customers, projects, production lines, or service departments are not regarded as in-transit inventory.

The in-transit inventory is displayed in the Inventory in Transit field of these sessions:

Inbound Order Lines (whinh2110m000)
Warehouse - Item Inventory (whwmd2515m000)
Item Data by Warehouse (whwmd2110s000)

See Printing in-transit inventory for further information on how the in-transit inventory is calculated and how to print reports using the Print In Transit Inventory (whinr1410m300) session.