1. Warehouse Management Implementation Guide
  2. Understanding Standard Pack Carton Recommendations

Understanding Standard Pack Carton Recommendations

You can use the Standard Pack Carton Recommendations application to generate carton detail when you set the Version of Carton Reorganization processing option. A carton recommendation summarizes the number and weight of pallets or cartons, and can make carton and pallet recommendations.

If an item is packed in two different types of cartons there are two separate lines for the item on the Work With Carton Recommendations form. This form summarizes on each detail row the shipment number, item, and the innermost and outermost carton. The row for the outer most carton has a blank outer carton.

For example, a carton recommendation would list this information on the Carton Hierarchy form:

  • Shipment number

  • Type of cartons

  • Total number of cartons and pallets needed

  • Weight of items and cartons

  • Customer carton ID

When using expendable or alternate packaging, you can manually change the recommendations. You can manually change recommendations using Standard Pack Carton Recommendations if the system has not created carton detail for the shipment. No automatic changes can occur to carton recommendations after you have manually changed a carton recommendation.

Packaging is based on the rules for standard pack. Recommendations are across all sales orders on a shipment, meaning, a carton can hold the same item number from multiple sales orders and a pallet can hold cartons from multiple sales orders.

The system does not recommend mixed cartons. Unless you use mixed packed groups, only parts with the same item number are put in an innermost carton. If the system does not find standard pack information for an item, the system adds the item as a loose piece on the shipment (based on the transaction unit of measure). If an inventory storage container is set up for the item in the warehouse management module, it is the default container for the loose piece but it does not have a customer carton number.

Note: Carton recommendations impact the Transportation Management, Sales Order Management, and Demand Scheduling systems. The system creates carton recommendations during the shipment creation process and updates recommendations automatically when a shipment changes.The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management system does not recognize the carton recommendations created for standard packs, and you can process standard packs with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management system on or off. To ensure that sales orders remain out of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management system, you can set up a separate status flow for the order types that use standard pack recommendations. You should exclude the order type status from the inclusion rules used to create warehouse requests.

The system generates the recommendation when creating shipments, based on the type of order established in the Document Type Master table (F40039) and whether you have activated carton recommendation processing for the document type in the Document Type Maintenance application (P40040). When you activate carton recommendations, you can:

  • Select standard pack recommendations. The system recommends the innermost carton and any additional packaging layers that are set up in standard pack rules.

  • Specify the Carton Creation Status. This is the status for recommendations created by the system.

  • Specify the Carton Change Status. The status for recommendations that have been manually changed or Carton Detail has been created. Once the carton is at this status, the system does not automatically re-calculate packaging recommendations if the sales order quantity is changed for an item.

  • Specify shipment sequencing. The system indicates that the document type enables manual entry of production sequencing fields Job Number (PSJOBNO) and Job Sequence (JOBSQ).

The system also uses these tables for processing carton recommendations:

  • Carton Recommendations (F4615)

  • Carton Detail Information (F4620)

  • Container and Carton Codes (F46091)

  • Shipment Header (F4215)

  • Shipment Detail (F4942)

  • Document Type Master (F40039)

  • Standard Pack Recommendation Rules (F460131)

  • Mixed Sequenced Packing Groups (F460151)