Moving Consignment Stock Parts—Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Basic Data Setup

Purchase/Inventory/Sales Part

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create part data entries necessary when using the consignment stock functionality.

Windows:
New Part Assistant

  1. Create XX-58-401 as a purchased, inventory, and sales part by using the New Part Assistant. Use supplier 5000.

General exercise for Purchased Part

General exercise for Stored Sales Part

Inventory Locations

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up the basic data required for using the consignment stock functionality.

Windows:
Inventory Locations

  1. Open the Inventory Locations window and create inventory locations of the following types: Arrival, Quality Assurance, and Picking.

General exercise for Entering Inventory Locations

Setting up Consignment Stock

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to set up consignment stock at our own warehouse.

Windows:
Supplier for Purchase Part/General
Supplier for Purchase Part/Inspection Info
Inventory Part/Default Locations

  1. In the Supplier for Purchase Part/General tab, select the Consignment Stock from the Consignment list.
  2. In the Inspection Info tab, click the Receive Case field to select Receive into Inventory.
  3. In the Inventory Part/Default Locations tab, set a picking location as default location.

General exercise for Setting up Consignment Stock

Required Data

Procure Inventory

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to procure parts to be used in the main exercise.

  1. Create a purchase order for part XX-58-401.
  2. Release the purchase order.
  3. Process the order until the parts are available in inventory.

General exercise for Purchase Order

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purposes of these exercises is to teach you about the restrictions that apply when moving consignment handled parts.

Windows:
Move Inventory Part
Supplier Consignment Stock Consumption
Count Per Inventory Part
Count Result Per Inventory Part
Inventory Transaction History Per Part

Because of space limitations you need to rearrange parts in your warehouse, now it is time to move the consignment stock parts.

During the rearrangement you also notice that you need to count the parts.

Moving Consignment Handled Parts

  1. Open the Move Inventory Part window and search for your part.
  2. Transfer 5 of the part to another picking location, without consuming them.
  3. Transfer another 3 of the part to the same picking location and consume these. Are you allowed to consume them?
  4. Transfer the 3 parts to a second picking location and consume them.
  5. Check in the Supplier Consignment Stock Consumption window to verify the quantities consumed.

Note: Moving consignment parts between locations can only be done if the locations belong to the same site.

Counting Consignment Handled Parts

  1. Open the Count Per Inventory Part window and search for your part.
  2. Count the part, and approve the result if needed.
  3. Open the Supplier Consignment Stock Consumption window. What is displayed?
  4. Check in the Inventory Transaction History per Part window. Compare the transaction to what is displayed when you perform a count on a non-consignment part. What is the difference?