Movement of Items, Balance IDs and Containers Between Locations within a Warehouse

Outcome

• Items, balance IDs, and containers are moved manually between locations within a warehouse.
• Planned move orders using reorder point method. The planned move order is manually or automatically released to a requisition order.

The process is used for these purposes:

• Changing location for items, balance identities or containers
• Filling up smaller workstation locations from the main location (buffer location).

All physical stock transactions are stored in the MITTRA table. See the relevant process for detailed information.

Before you start

Before this principal process can be run, these prerequisites must be met:

• For manual movement, see the prerequisites in Manual Movement of Items, Balance IDs and Containers Between Locations.
• For movement with planned move orders, see Movement of Items Using a Planned Move Order .

Description

This list includes the different methods available to move stock between locations within a warehouse.

• Change location for items

  'Movement. Change Location – Item' (MMS175) is used to move items and specific quantities from one location to another. This is handy in a kanban situation, filling up the smaller workstation location from the main location

• Change location for all items

  'Movement. Change Location – All Items' (MMS180) moves all items, lot numbers, or containers from one location to another. This could be of use when moving a pallet, etc.

  Note: Do not use this option if the movement is a common transaction, use container management instead.
• Change location for single location stored items

  'Movement. Change Location – Single Location Items' (MMS820) moves an item that is coded as a single location stored item.

• Change location for balance identities

  'Movement. Change Location – Balance ID' (MMS177) moves balance identities. Balance identity refers to item number, location, lot number, container and quantity, as applicable.

• Change location for containers

  'Movement. Change Location – Container' (MMS105) moves containers from one location to another. The container number in combination with item number, location and the quantity result in a unique balance identity.

• Change location with planned move order

  In 'Planned Move Order. Process' (MMS170) planned move orders are displayed and released to a requisition order. The release can either be manually or automatically done. Reorder point method is used as a trigger for creating a planned order.