Ordering Consigned Inventory

When the Customer Consignment Inventory module is active, additional fields and frames display for user input during order entry in:

In both sales order and scheduled order programs, a hierarchical approach is used to retrieve previously entered default data that applies to specific customers and items.

• When entering a new order, the system uses default values for the ship-to address defined in Ship-To/Item Controls Maintenance. If a record does not exist for the ship-to address and a blank item, the system uses defaults defined in Customer Consignment Control.

• At the sales order line, the system first uses defaults defined in Ship‑to/Item Controls Maintenance for the order ship-to and line item. If a record does not exist, values default from the order header.

Enter Yes if items on this sales order are consigned. This value defaults from Ship-To/Item Controls Maintenance, if used. If not used, the value defaults from Customer Consignment Control.

Enter No if the most items on this sales order are non-consigned. You can designate individual items as consigned in the Consignment Order Line Item Data frame that displays later during order entry.

Consignment Order Data Frame in Sales Order Maintenance Header shows the Consignment Order Data frame that displays when Consignment is set to Yes.

Enter the location representing consigned inventory that resides at the customer facility. This value defaults from Ship-To/Item Controls Maintenance, if used. If not used, the value defaults from Customer Consignment Control.

Optionally enter the location that represents consigned inventory that is in-transit between you and your customer. When you enter a value for a consignment location but not for an in‑transit location, inventory ready for shipping is transferred from the inventory location directly to the consignment location.

When you enter an in-transit value, inventory is transferred from the stock inventory location to the in-transit location. Enter only valid locations set up in Location Maintenance. The in-transit location defaults from Ship-To/Item Controls Maintenance, if used. If not used, the value defaults from Customer Consignment Control.

Important: Assign in-transit locations an inventory status code with Nettable set to No. Otherwise, MRP will consider supply in that location twice: once for the scheduled receipt and again for the nettable quantity in the location.

Optionally enter the maximum number of days consigned inventory is allowed to reside at or be in-transit to the customer facility. Enter 0 (zero) if there is no deadline.

This value defaults from Ship-To/Item Controls Maintenance, if used. If not used, the value defaults from Customer Consignment Control.

See Managing Aged Inventory.

When you need to enter a sales order with only a few consigned items, proceed through the sales order screens to the sales order line frames as shown in Consignment Line Item Pop-Up in Sales Order Maintenance.

Set the Consignment detail field to Yes for order lines with consigned items. Other items on the sales order remain non-consigned.

The Consignment Order Line Item Data frame lets you optionally update consignment values that apply only to this item.

To order consigned inventory on a scheduled sales order, use Customer Scheduled Order Maintenance (7.3.13).

Consignment Field in Customer Scheduled Order Maintenance Header (7.3.13)

Enter the ship-from and ship-to information that apply to the entire scheduled order.

The Consignment field in the Order Data frame functions the same way as the field in Sales Order Maintenance.

Consignment Order Data Frame in Customer Scheduled Order Maintenance Header

The first three fields in the Consignment Order Data frame function the same way as those fields in Sales Order Maintenance. Automatic Replenishment is an additional field that applies only to scheduled orders.

Indicate whether a planned replacement line is automatically added to the active required ship schedule based on the last quantity consumed.

Yes: A replenishment order is automatically generated when consigned items are consumed. The replenishment line is added to the next open date on the schedule for a quantity matching the quantity consumed.

No: A replenishment line is not added to the required ship schedule. New schedules are determined by using Required Ship Schedule Update (7.5.3).

You can indicate for each line whether it is consigned. If it is, the Consignment Order Line Item Data frame displays for input of line-item values. This contains the same fields as those illustrated in Consignment Order Data Frame in Customer Scheduled Order Maintenance Header.