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 Planning Goods Receipts Using Orders

Use

If you use the Production Order component to plan production orders, this component provides a source of information for planning the receipt of goods manufactured in-house.

Features

Information in an Order

When an order is released, the receipt of the ordered material is considered to be planned, because the order contains all of the data relevant for the goods receipt, as follows:

Goods Receipt Indicator

The goods receipt indicator specifies whether a goods receipt is expected to occur for the order and, thus, whether the order is relevant for Inventory Management.

Plant

The plant specified in the order is the plant where the goods receipt occurs.

Material and Quantity

The material and the quantity manufactured are automatically proposed during entry of the goods receipt.

Underdelivery and Overdelivery Tolerances

Production or Material Requirements Planning can specify that the goods receipt may only be accepted if the delivered quantity lies within the overdelivery tolerance. If the delivered quantity is below the underdelivery tolerance, the system issues a warning message.

Planned Delivery Date

Using reports to analyze the delivery dates specified in the orders, you can determine which deliveries are expected on a particular day, that is, what amount of work is expected at the goods receiving point, and which deliveries are not scheduled to arrive until later.

Destination of the Goods

As in the case of an external purchase order, the following destinations can be defined for a manufactured material:

  • warehouse

  • consumption/usage

If material is intended for the warehouse, Production or Materials Requirement Planning can define a storage location for it. This storage location is then automatically suggested by the system during entry of the goods receipt.

If a material is intended for consumption/usage, the order contains an account assignment (for example, a cost center, project, sales order, etc.). For items to be posted directly to consumption/usage, Production or Material Requirements Planning, you can enter a recipient or an unloading point in the order. Both specifications are automatically proposed by the system during entry of the goods receipt. Note that you can change the unloading point, but not the recipient.

Stock into Which the Goods Should be Posted

Production can specify in the order whether the material should be inspected

If the quality inspection indicator is set in the order, the system automatically proposes to post the material into quality inspection stock during entry of the goods receipt. At this point, it is still possible to change the indicator and post the material into unrestricted-use stock or into blocked stock. You can also post the material into quality inspection stock, even if the inspection indicator was not set in advance.