Flow Thru

With the flow thru process, the warehouse receives quantities into inventory and runs a flow thru allocation process to designate items to outbound vehicles.

Infor WMS Warehouse Management has three main flow thru methods:

• PO Linked

  Flow Thru orders are directly linked to a specific purchase order and ASN.

• Opportunistic

  The application looks for opportunities to fill shipment orders with items currently being received.

• Manual

  Distribution center personnel manually assign order details of a shipment order to become eligible for opportunistic crossdock.

  WM Crossdock currently supports PO-linked flow thru. The PO-linked flow thru process typically begins when a buyer creates a series of flow thru orders for an item that corresponds directly with a PO. The application can also process flow thru orders that are not directly linked to a PO.

Crossdock supports host interface transactions for flow thru orders. A flow thru order file is used in the API transmittal of flow thru orders between the buyer, vendor, and the application.

The flow thru process involves five main warehousing operations in the following order: