Understanding Advanced Features

The features described in Advanced Topics and Inquiries are not required to operate the warehouse. However, they provide enhanced flexibility in inventory movement and record keeping. With these features, you can:

• Generate detailed movement records by confirming movement out of one location and into another in two separate steps or two-phase processing.

• Segregate tax-paid inventory in special locations according to tax codes that you assign.

• Control locations by restricting the mixing of different dated products in the inventory in the location using freeze rules.

• Reduce the number of picking trips by combining (or rolling up) small units of measure into larger units during picking.

• Protect the inventory by packing items in suitable storage containers during putaway.

• Reduce warehouse traffic congestion and the effects of pick and putaway equipment failure by setting the maximum quantity for an item in a zone.

• Change the effect of movement instructions by changing an item's warehouse process groups.

• Correct errors in system records by updating the Warehouse Suggestions (F4611), Item Location File (F41021), and Location Detail Information (F4602) tables with identical information.

• Reorganize cartons within a shipment and items within cartons before shipment.

• Merge location detail records to minimize system and user resources when processing these records.

• Generate reports of location detail information.

• Generate reports of discrepancies between the F41021 and F4602 tables.

• Review the amount of space that is not available and the amount of space that is usable per location with the Location Utilization program (P46220) and the Location Detail Inquiry program (P46321).

• Purge closed requests, suggestions, tasks, and reservations.

• Create sales and purchase orders using multiple shipping and multiple receiving locations preferences.