Moving Inventory 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
Entering Site
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter the
additional site needed to perform the main exercise.
Windows:
Site
- Create a site with a site of XX-2 (where XX
stands for your initials) and a site description of XX Site 2. Use company
10 and the default distribution and manufacturing calendars.
General exercise for Entering
Site
Entering Inventory Location
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter the
inventory locations needed to perform the main exercise.
Windows:
Inventory Locations
- Set up the following inventory locations, substituting your initials for
the XXs.
Inventory Location |
Warehouse/Location Name |
Location Type |
XX-P1 |
Picking 1 |
Picking at your default site |
XX-P1 |
Picking 1 |
Picking at site XX-2 |
XX-P2 |
Picking 2 |
Picking at your default site |
XX-PD1 |
Pall Del1 |
Pallet delivery at your default
site |
XX-PB1 |
Pall Buff 1 |
Pallet buffer at your default
site |
General exercise for Entering
Inventory Locations
Entering Inventory Part
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter the
inventory parts needed to perform the main exercise.
Windows:
Inventory Part
Inventory Part/Misc Part Info
Inventory Part/Putaway Zones
- Create a purchased inventory part XX-58-581 (where XX stands for your
initials), a part description of Wheel 195/50R15, and U/M of pcs
(pieces). Set the inventory location XX-P1 as the default location.
- Copy the inventory part to site XX-2.
- Create a purchased inventory part XX-58-582 (where XX stands for your
initials), a part description of Wheel 205/45R16, and U/M of pcs
(pieces). Set the inventory location XX-P1 as the default location.
- Prepare the part XX-58-582 to be a pallet handled part. Enter 4 In the Standard
Quantity at Pallet field, enter 4.
- Click the Misc Part Info tab and select
the Pallet Handled check box to make your part pallet handled . Also
enter the quantity per pallet in the Standard Putaway Qty.
- Click the Putaway Zones tab and enter the
locations of your choice as zones with different rankings. Note that it is
possible to enter zones containing both normal and pallet locations. The
ranking decides in which order the putaway process will search for available
locations.
General exercise for Purchased Inventory
Part.
Required Data
Receiving Inventory Part
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to receive
inventory parts that will be moved in the exercises below.
- Receive 200 pieces of the part XX-58-581 into your picking location XX-P1
at your default site.
- Receive 20 pieces of the pallet handled part XX-58-582 into your pallet delivery
location XX-PD1.
General exercise for Receiving
Inventory Parts.
Main Exercise
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to understand how
to move parts between locations, via transit, and by using transport tasks.
Windows:
Move Inventory Part
Receive from Transit
Handle Pallets on Delivery Location
Transport Task
- Open the Move Inventory Part window and query for
part XX-58-581.
- Move 10 pieces to location XX-P2 at the same site.
- Switch to the other location (XX-P2) for the part. Move the parts back to their
original location.
- Move 10 pieces to location XX-P1 at site XX-2.
Note: You need to have access to both sites.
- Open the Move Inventory Part window and query for
part XX-58-581.
- Move 10 pieces to location XX-P1 at site XX-2. In the Destination list,
click Move to
Transit.
- Save the changes.
Note: You need to have access to both sites.
- Open the
Receive from Transit window and query for your
part.
- Receive the parts from transit by entering the transferred quantity in the
Qty
Received field.
- Save the changes.
- Make sure you have received the part into a pallet delivery location.
- Open the
Handle Pallets on Delivery Location window and
query for part XX-58-582.
- Right-click and then click Perform Putaway.
- Right-click and then click Transport Task to open the
Transport Task
window.
- Right-click and then click Execute to execute the transport task.
- Repeat the exercise, but use the possibility to change the to location on
the transport task. Change to another pallet location type. Execute the
transport task. What happens?
- Repeat the exercise, but use the possibility to change the to location on
the transport task. Change to a picking location type. Execute the transport
task. What happens?