Reorganization
After you have set up a carton and after the carton has been picked, you have the option of reorganizing its contents and its placement within a shipment before shipping. The Carton Reorganization program not only enables you to reorganize a carton's contents, but also enables you to create and organize new cartons, and allocate carton quantities to sales orders.
When you are working with cartons, you might reorganize the cartons in many ways, including:
Adding new cartons to a shipment
Consolidating one carton into another carton
Splitting the contents of one carton into two cartons
Changing the level of one carton to another carton level (for example, you might change a box to a pallet)
Updating the carton status reconciliation
When you are working with the contents of a carton, you might reorganize items in one of these ways:
Move items from one existing carton to another within a shipment (for example, you might move a group of items onto a pallet)
Move an entire quantity, in a particular unit of measure, to another carton (for example, you might move one case of canned goods from one carton to another)
Move a partial quantity, in a particular unit of measure, to another carton (for example, you might move half a case of canned goods from one carton to another)
Move items from an existing carton to a new carton (for example, you might remove four tires from a pallet and place them inside a carton)
Remove a carton from a parent carton and designate the removed carton as another parent-level carton
Remove an item from a carton, leaving the item outside of any cartons
The system automatically calculates weight limit information when you reorganize a carton. If you set the appropriate processing option, the system displays a warning if the carton that you have reorganized exceeds its weight limit.
When you are moving items within a shipment, you can set the appropriate processing option in the Carton Reorganization program to allow you to specify the quantity of the item that you are moving. If you leave the processing option blank, the system moves the entire quantity of the item.
It is recommended that you set the appropriate processing options in the Carton Reorganization program to create or update these tables:
F4620
SO Pack Confirm Detail (F4216)
Shipment Pieces (F4943)
Shipment Reference Numbers (F4217)
These tables contain detailed information about cartons, their contents, and the shipping and tracking information that must be created or updated every time you create or reorganize a carton. For example, by setting the appropriate processing options, you ensure that you are maintaining current UCC 128 compliance information in the system and can provide customers with ASNs (advance ship notices) and bar-coded shipping container labels. ASNs communicate the contents of a shipment to a customer. When the customer receives the shipment, the customer scans the bar-coded container labels on the contents of the shipment and matches the contents to the ASN as part of an automated receipts process.
After you create or reorganize cartons in a shipment, you also might want to review carton detail information. The Carton Detail Inquiry program (P4621) enables you to review this type of carton detail information:
Carton identification information
Item information
Weight and dimension information
Related sales order information
UCC 128 information
When you revise carton details, the system calculates accurate weight values and updates the carton detail status. Use the processing options on the Status tab in the Carton Reorganization to specify how the system processes the statuses.
You can use the Form menu on Carton Reorganization to confirm sales order lines. You can correct carton data if the line level reconciliation fails or a change is made to quantity shipped during confirmation.
If you want to send an ASN to the customer, first add the appropriate statuses to the order activity rules for order type S4S in the Order Activity Rules program (P40204).
Changes you make in this application affect carton detail, not sales detail.