Enter Default Packing Instruction

Explanation

This activity is used to define packing instructions which will be retrieved to customer orders based on certain criteria. This task should be performed by a system administrator or an equivalent person.

When entering a packing instruction, the following combinations of attributes can be used with priority orders:

1. Part/Site/Customer/Delivery Address/Packing Instruction
2. Part/Customer/Delivery Address/Packing Instruction
3. Part/Site/Customer/Packing Instruction
4. Part/Customer/Packing Instruction
5. Part/Site/Packing Instruction
6. Part/Packing Instruction
7. Capacity Requirement Group/Packing Instruction

In addition to the attributes mentioned above, Min Qty and UoM can be specified for each of the seven combinations. Min Qty can have a positive / NULL value. If the Min Qty has a positive value, UoM field is required. UoM is automatically filled when the part is selected. For a combination that does not have a site, part UoM will be fetched from the part catalog. For a combination that has a site, part UoM will be fetched from Sales Part's/Non-Inventory Sales Part’s/Package-Part’s Sales UoM. Users must remove the automatically fetched UoM, when saving a combination without Min Qty and UoM. However, combinations with the Min Qty are prioritized when fetching packing instructions for the customer order line.

To round up due quantities in Customer Schedule Lines, it is necessary to add a Multiple Quantity. Multiple Quantity is the maximum number of units a packaging unit can accommodate. Quantities in customer schedules can be rounded up based on the multiple quantity for easier shipping.

Priority order of the combinations entered will determine the selection of the multiple quantity needed to round up the customer schedule lines.

1. Part/Site/Customer/Delivery Address/Packing Instruction

2. Part/Customer/Delivery Address/Packing Instruction

3. Part/Site/Customer/Packing Instruction

4. Part/Customer/Packing Instruction

5. Part/Site/Packing Instruction

6. Part/Packing Instruction

 Entering a minimum quantity is not required to execute the Demand Round Up command in Customer Schedules.

 

Prerequisites

• At least one packing instruction for customer order must exist.
• A capacity requirement group, part number, site, customer and delivery address must have been defined.
• A combination of both Capacity Requirement Group and Multiple Quantity cannot be entered.  
• The multiple quantity cannot be defined for the combination of Capacity Requirement Group.

System Effects

• A packing instruction is defined for a combination of attributes.
• The default packing instruction can be retrieved to the customer order line and used for automatic packing in the customer order shipment process.
• When retrieving the packing instructions, the Sales Qty of the customer order line and the Min Qty value of the default packing instructions for customer order page are compared with the respective combinations. When the existing Sales Qty is modified and if there is only one combination where the defined Min Qty is greater than the Sales Qty and there are no other packing instructions for that data set, that packing instruction will remain same on the customer order line.

Pages

Default Packing Instructions for Customer Order and Customer Schedule

Activity Diagrams

Packing of Goods