Cross Docking

Cross docking enables you to receive and distribute products directly from the dock of a distribution center. Cross docking eliminates moving quantities to a storage location before picking and enables you to fulfill orders directly.

There are two methods for cross docking:

• When you receive the items that are included on an inbound purchase order, the system retrieves the quantity on backorder, creates cross docking putaway requests when the backorders are released, and then creates pick requests with the receiving location as the suggested pick location.

  Note: Cross docking putaway requests have a special status code, 295 (46/PS), that differentiates them from other putaway requests. The system uses requests with a status of 295 for audit purposes and does not create suggestions for them.

• When you receive a sales order, you can use the Planned Cross Docking Workbench program (P4614) to plan the allocation of inbound products based on receipt dates and shipping dates and can prioritize the allocation. Also, you can update shipment dates based on supply and demand and schedule the shipments.

Additionally, when you receive a sales order, you can use the Planned Cross Docking Workbench program (P4614) to specify the priority number for each cross dock movement. You can also indicate that a line on a sales order must be cross docked in anticipation of incoming supply, and schedule both inbound and outbound shipments. The system displays sales order lines (including backordered sales order lines depending on setup) as demand and purchase order lines and work orders as supply, with the quantity that is available for each line.

You can use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management, Procurement, and Work Orders systems to perform cross docking. For example, you can use a specific purchase order number or work order number to fulfill sales orders. By associating a sales order line with a specific purchase order number or work order number, you can establish priority for fulfilling the sales order line and use the Shipment Confirmation program (P4205) to indicate that the sales order line is ready to be picked and shipped directly from the receiving location.

If you use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management system, the system uses standard movement processing. The system records the movement of cross docked inventory as an override to standard picking suggestions and creates a pick suggestion, which you must confirm.

When you perform planned cross docking, the system performs these actions in this order:

• Determines whether there are any sales orders that contain a cross docking order number that matches either the purchase order that you are receiving or the work order that you are completing. If there are associated purchase orders or work orders, the system allocates inventory and hard commits the quantity to those sales orders first.

• Allocates the remaining inventory according to the cross docking priority based on the scheduled pick date of a sales order line. If the scheduled pick up date precedes or equals the receipt date and if you have indicated in the Sales Order Entry program (P4210) or through the Cross Docking Workbench (P4614) that the sales order line is eligible for cross docking, then the system sorts the sales order lines in ascending order by date.

• Allocates inventory until either no inventory remains or no more sales order lines must be cross docked. inventory is moved to either the receiving location or completions location through standard movement processing the system creates a putaway request. If there is inadequate inventory for fulfilling a sales order line, then the system splits the sales order line, fulfills and hard-commits the quantity requested, and advances the sales order line's status to make it eligible for shipment. The remaining sales order line remains unfulfilled, and you can adjust the order dates and priorities to ensure that the sales order line is eventually fulfilled.