D365 - Warehouse and transportation management overview

Warehouse and transportation management

Warehouse management is based on the following elements:

·        Loads: An outbound load is a single shipment or group of shipments shipped from a warehouse location to a customer or intermediate location. You can create an outbound load from a sales order or transfer order automatically or manually.

An inbound load is a single shipment or group of shipments shipped from and external warehouse to an internal one. You can create an inbound load from purchase order manually.

 

·        Shipments: A shipment is a collection of sales / purchase order lines, heading to the same address in one load. A single load may have multiple shipments. E.g. a sales order with two lines, each going to a different destination will result in creation of two shipments, belonging to the same load.

 

·        Waves: A wave is a collection of shipments and it will allow the generation of works in order to move items in warehouse.

 

·        Work: For each wave we can have more than one work in which the steps for moving items are defined, we can have more steps for each item.

 

We can distinguish two different processes:

·        Issue process

·        Receipt process

In detail the process is composed by the following elements linked in the following way.

Transportation module structure

 

·        Issue process

·         Receipt process

Transportation management is based on the following functions / forms:

·        Route break: this function manage the breaks for transport pricing

·        Route rate: this function is made by some tables and it manages the transport prices

·        Route: this function shows the route plan and the pricing planned for it.