VAS Order 

Definition

Instruction to perform a value-added service (VAS) for one or more products with reference to a delivery item. A value-added service order (VAS order) links delivery items to a packing instruction and contains details from within the delivery and packaging specification.

Use

A VAS order is a document with which you can inform warehouse employees about what work they have to perform, and with which products. You can also use VAS orders to log work that is done.

The packaging specification uses the packaging specification levels to inform the VAS order about the VAS activities that the warehouse employees have to perform in the warehouse. The delivery tells the VAS order about the exact amount of work to be performed.

You can use the data collected in the VAS order as a calculation basis for billing external and internal service providers, for example.

Structure

A VAS order consists of the following levels:

●     Order header

●     VAS activities

●     Items

●     Auxiliary products

Integration

A VAS order is integrated into Extended Warehouse Management and the delivery. Here, note that you must always create a VAS order on the basis of a delivery with a packaging specification (see Connection to Value-Added Service Order (VAS Order)).

Example

You have an inbound delivery with one item for 10 pistons, which you want to prepare for final putaway. The system finds a packaging specification with the following activities for the product in goods receipt:

       1.      Protect piston from rust

       2.      Paint piston yellow

       3.      Pack piston in special packaging material (box) for putaway

The system creates a VAS order. You use this order to execute the activities listed in the packaging specification for each piston.

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The VAS order now looks like this:

●     The packaging specification is stored in the order header.

●     The VAS activities include the three activities Protect from rust, Paint yellow, and Pack.

●     The items contain quantity 10 and product Piston.

●     The rust protection material, yellow paint, and box are listed in the auxiliary products.

The warehouse employees must perform these three VAS activities for all 10 pistons at the respective work centers.