Processing Inventory Transfers
This section describes how QAD Warehousing processes inventory transfers. The following transfer transactions are possible:
• Transfer by reference
• Transfer multiple items
• Transfer single item
Inventory transfers can take place:
• Inside one warehouse
• Between warehouses (inter-warehouse transfers)
Inventory transfers work in the same way as other inventory movements. That is:
• You define internal routings for the transfer.
• You assign the internal routing to the transaction type, warehouse, item number, or address.
• You assign the appropriate algorithms to the transaction.
When you create an inventory transaction using warehouse functions, the stock is moved according to the internal routing, and put away using the algorithm linked to the transaction type.
Typically you have a one-step internal routing in the main storage area. The internal routing covers all movements within the area and to the area from another internal routing group (IRG). But the internal routing does not cover transfer movement from the main storage area to another area. For this type of movement, the system uses transaction parameters that you specify in Work Location Group Maintenance (4.3.9) for the phase, system code, and task type. If the movement is from one work location group (WLG) to another WLG, you define an inter-WLG definition that would cover the transaction parameters in Work Location Group Maintenance.