Inventory commitments in Freight
In the Generate Inventory Commitment (fmfoc2210m000) session, you can generate or cancel inventory commitments for selected ranges of freight orders, freight order clusters, loads, or shipments. The purpose is to make sure that the inventory is available when the actual shipping starts.
When you generate or cancel inventory commitments, the inventory is actually committed or canceled for the originating orders of the selected freight orders, freight order clusters, loads, or shipments.
The inventory is committed first to the freight order lines and shipments lines with the earliest planned load date.
You can generate inventory commitments for freight orders before a load plan or a freight order cluster is created.
If you generate inventory commitments for freight orders, freight order clusters, loads, or shipments, and a freight order line has the Actual status, which means that there is an actual plan, only the committed inventory of the shipment lines of the actual plan are updated. If there is no actual plan, all shipments lines in all plans are updated with the committed inventory.
You cannot generate or cancel inventory commitments for originating orders for which outbound advice is created.
In the Generate Plan (fmlbd0280m000) session, you can select the Plan with Committed Inventory Only check box to build load plans based on committed inventory.
Prerequisites
To generate inventory commitments:
- Originating orders for the freight orders must exist.
- The Planned Delivery Date option must be selected in the Generate Inventory Commitment based on field in the Inventory Planning Parameters (whinp0100m000) session in the originating company.
- The Batch option or the Order Line Entry option must be selected in the Commitment Policy field of the Item - Sales (tdisa0601m000) session.
The latter two prerequisites ensure that inventory commitments are generated for the originating order lines.
Interaction of inventory commitment updates in LN
When inventory commitments are generated in the Generate Inventory Commitment (fmfoc2210m000) session, the inventory commitments in Warehousing and the committed quantities on the originating sales order lines of the selected freight orders, freight order clusters, loads, or shipments are updated. Inventory commitments for other order origins are not updated.
If commitments are generated from packages other than Freight, only the inventory commitments in Warehousing are updated, but not the related freight order lines and shipment lines.
Inventory commitments that are decreased or canceled in the Inventory Commitments (whinp2100m000) and Cancel Inventory Commitments (whinp2204m000) sessions are updated on the related shipment lines and freight order lines. If they are increased in the Inventory Commitments (whinp2100m000) session, they are not updated on the related shipment lines and freight order lines.
Generate freight order clusters for committed inventory only
In the Generate Freight Order Clusters (fmfoc3200m000) session, you can generate freight order clusters exclusively for freight order lines with committed inventory. For this purpose, the Cluster with Committed Inventory Only check box must be selected.