Refilling Inventory Locations—Exercises
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Basic Data Setup
Inventory Locations
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up
the basic data required for using the refill functionality.
Windows:
Inventory Locations
- Open the Inventory Locations
window and create inventory
locations of the following types: Arrival, Quality Assurance, Picking, Pallet
Delivery, and Pallet Buffer.
General exercise for Entering
Inventory Locations
Purchase/Inventory/Sales Part
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create part
data entries necessary when using the refill functionality.
Windows:
Inventory Locations
- 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
Enabling Pallet Handling for Inventory Part
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set
up the basic data required for running this particular functionality.
Windows:
Inventory Part/Pallets
- Open the Inventory Part/Pallets tab, and create a new
record.
- Enter a Pallet Buffer location group, and other mandatory data of your
choice, then save the record.
General exercise for Pallet Handling
Required Data
Receiving Parts
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set
up the basic data required for running the refill functionality.
- Open the
Receive Inventory Part window, and search for your
part.
- Receive more pieces than needed to reach the refill point at the picking location.
General exercise for Receive
Inventory Part
Creating Pallets
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set
up the basic data required for running the refill functionality.
- Open the
Receive Inventory Part window, and search for your
part.
- Receive enough pieces to the pallet delivery location to create several pallets.
- Open the
Handle Pallets on Delivery Location window and create a
transport task to move some of the pallets to the pallet buffer location.
- Open the
Transport Task window, search for, and execute the
transport task.
General exercise for Pallet Handling
Verifying Conditions for Automatic Refill
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set
up the basic data required for running the refill functionality.
- Verify that there are more parts than the refill point quantity at the picking
location.
- Verify that there are pallets on the pallet location
- Verify that all transport tasks for this part are executed.
Main Exercise
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to
control automatic refilling of a picking location from a pallet location.
Windows:
Scrap Inventory Part
Transport Task
Quantity per Location Details
You have just reported that you have picked the last part from picking location
A16. The system will create a transport task to refill the picking location.
- Open the Quantity per Location Details tab to verify the
quantity.
- Create a refill situation by scrapping enough parts to bring the available
quantity at or below the refill point.
- Verify in the
Transport Task window whether any transport task has been
created. If so, execute the transport task.
- Refresh the Quantity per Location Details window for updated
information. The picking location has now been refilled.