Monday 3 October 2011

ATO -Supply

Well ! I have been thinking of writing ,It is mostly one of way of refreshing the knowledge base ..

Here is one interesting business scenario recently i encountered

Here is a normal ATO cycle in oracle

Enter order
Book order
Order Lines goes to supply eligible -This means ,the line is eligible to create a supply
If the item is internally built ,Then a WIP Job gets created
Once the WIP Job gets created ,WIP job is performed (I.e move transactions )
WIP Job gets completed .
Now ,the reservations moves from WIP to Inventory and Order line status moves from
Production Open to Awaiting Shipping
Picking accurs for the item
Shipping ,Now imagine during shipping ..the shipper could not actually find the item and the process for wherever he does not find the item ,he moves the goods to cycle count reservation.
The reservations moves from Inventory to Cycle count .

Here's is the catch ,What happens now to the sales order line ? The lines again becomes supply eligible and creates one more WIP ?

This sounds a little crazy to me ? and there should be some control over the supply creation ...

Just thinking of how we can avoid this problem ..

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