Warehousing orders
Every inventory transaction in Warehousing is initiated and controlled by a warehousing order. From a simple transfer to a complicated receipt, one or more warehousing orders control the movement of inventory and account for it. Warehousing orders can be generated either manually in Warehousing or automatically from within other LN packages or modules. For example, a sales order can automatically trigger a warehousing order of type Issue. A purchase order can automatically trigger an order of type Receipt. The Inventory Planning module of Warehousing tracks planned inventory transactions, which are converted to warehousing orders.
Why warehousing orders?
Warehousing orders are needed to register different types of inventory transactions. These orders are also needed to centralize warehousing activities, such as the following:
- Registering actual issues and receipts
- Printing warehousing documents
- Confirming and approving issues and receipts
- Tracking warehousing transactions
Warehousing order characteristics
A warehousing order can contain multiple warehousing-order lines. Each warehousing order line can contain only one item. The various order lines of one warehousing order can contain different items or the same items.
The inventory transaction type of a warehousing order is determined by the originating order from which the warehousing order results. If you manually enter a warehousing order, you must manually specify the inventory transaction type.
The warehousing order type of a warehousing order determines the default warehousing procedure that is used to handle inventory transactions, but for individual warehousing orders or warehousing order lines of a warehousing order type you can adjust the default warehousing procedure.
See Defining default warehousing order types by order origin for information about default warehousing order types.