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I am a bit baffled at the fact that there seems to be no realistic/functional process for reserving assembled to order license plates during Sales Order load release.
My company assembles highly configurable product that is assembled to order and skidded by order at the end of the assembly process using license plates.
Once skidding is completed, the license plates will contain anywhere from 5-50 finished goods that are called for by the sales order (item requirement).
These skids are considerably large in size and typically ship out within a number of days after assembly completion so there is no sense in placing them back into bulk inventory after completion.
What I would like to do is have the license plates automatically reserved when released to warehouse. I have successfully used the Order-Committed Reservation ODATA tool to place these reservations, but this would require a production controller or shipping coordinator to know exactly which items were available and which license plate they are on. The ODATA interface is clunky and slow so I am afraid this will hinder our process.
All items that are assembled to order are marked (single level standard) to the demand order so all materials on the license plate are already reserved to the order.
My questions are:
- Has anyone built a process that consistently and effectively utilizes the Order-Committed Reservation process to reserve license plates quickly and accurately?
- Is there any way to (at least partially) automate the reservation process so that we don't have someone constantly working to place reservations manually?
- Before license plates can be reserved with the ODATA tool, the existing reservations to the demand order must be removed. Is there a way to get around this considered the reservation is to the correct demand order (this is automatic because of marking)?
This really seems like it should be basic system functionality as I would imagine many organizations assemble material by order and need to efficiently move those materials to the shipping dock (using license plates) after production is complete.
My other thought here was to utilize the Production Cross Docking feature to create cross dock work "at supply receipt" but this function is currently only supported for Transfer Orders. Is there any anticipated release for support of "Sales Orders" as a supply source?
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