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Explaining Direct Shipping Without Picking

Oracle WMS enables you to ship confirm material for a sales order line without having to pick release or pick confirm the delivery lines. This feature is enabled by selecting the Direct Shipping
Allowed check box located on the Warehouse tab of the Organizational Parameters desktop window. Selecting this check box does not disallow normal pick release shipping methods. Both
Direct Shipping and normal pick release shipping can be utilized by selecting Direct Shipping Allowed.
The normal process flow for manufacturing operations when pick release is used assumes two material handling stages:
1. Put material away from manufacturing completion
2. Bring the same material from storage to the staging areas to prepare for packaging and loading to trucks
The second stage is initiated by the pick release process.
Pick release is the system to select the correct material to allocate for a particular sales order based on any user defined rules. However, in environments where product is built to customer
order in a "just in time" mode, this decision is already made by the production schedule, and pick release is redundant and unnecessary. In such manufacturing modes, material is completed
off of an assembly line ready to be loaded onto trucks for shipment. The assumption that forms the premise of pick release is that material is on hand in a warehouse storage location when
the warehouse is ready to begin processing for shipment. This does not hold true for these scenarios. The additional step to pick material and deliver it to the staging lane is unnecessary
because the material is brought to an outbound preparation area directly from manufacturing.
Note: The Direct Shipping Without Picking business process may only be applicable for some operations. In the automotive industry, for example, production jobs are shipped
directly after finished goods completion, while after market service orders are fulfilled through a parts inventory that is built to stock and therefore requires picking activity.
How to Perform Direct Shipping Without Picking
1. Log into the mobile user interface and navigate to the Load Truck form.
2. Enter, or scan, the Dock Door.
3. Enter, or scan, the LPN for the shipment.
Note: The LPN must be in inventory or be loaded to the same dock via Direct Ship; it cannot reside in receiving or WIP, be picked or prepacked, or loaded to a different
dock door or via a different shipping method. After entering the LPN, the user will have to enter a sales order and sales order line for all of the LPN contents. The user will
be required to enter at least one sales order and line for an LPN before allowing the next LPN to be loaded or ship confirmed. An LPN that has already been loaded to
the same dock door for Direct Ship can be entered and additional sales order lines can be assigned to that LPN so long as there is additional available material in the
LPN. If the LPN contains a greater quantity than the sales order lines require, then the sales order lines will be overshipped, so long as they are within shipping
tolerances. If the LPN contains a smaller quantity than the sales order lines require, then the sales order lines will be undershipped.
4. Optionally, enter the Container, Net Wt, and Gross Wt.
5. UOM field will be populated by the Weight UOM code that is defaulted from the LPN.
6. Enter, or scan, the order number. This is the sales order against which you are shipping the LPN. The list of values will display all booked orders. If the LPN is reserved against an
order or line then it will restrict the LPN for the same order or line.
7. In the Line Num field, select the order line number from the list of values. This is the sales order line against which the user is shipping the LPN. It is a list of values containing all open
lines for the sales order selected in the Order Numb field in ready for release or backordered status. Lines in Staged, Released, and Shipped statuses are excluded. Upon exiting the
field, the system must validate that the order line item is found within the LPN.
Note: All sales order/sales order lines loaded in a single LPN must be for a single delivery. If deliveries have been created in advance, then only sales order lines
associated to one delivery can be assigned to one loaded LPN. If deliveries have not been created in advance, then sales order lines will be assigned to deliveries as
they are loaded in the Direct Ship page based on the Delivery Grouping rules and the user will be prevented from loading lines that would result in different deliveries to
the same LPN.
Note: The direct ship process is facilitated by the Scheduled Shipment report. The Scheduled Shipment report displays sales order lines that meet certain user-defined
criteria and are ready to be shipped. Because the sales order and order line fields are embedded in a single barcode, the user can scan one barcode from the Scheduled
Shipment report to enter data into both fields. For more information on the Scheduled Shipment report, see Scheduled Shipment Report (Without Barcodes) in the WMS
Reports chapter
At this point, the user will be required to enter any serial details for items that have serial at sales order issue control.
The user can select Next LPN to move on to the next LPN to be loaded. The dock door will remain the same, but all other fields will be cleared to enter the new LPN data.
The user can select Load/Exit at which time the system commits the loading of the LPN on to the Dock Door (changes the LPN context to Loaded to Dock) and instead of refreshing the
screen for accepting more LPNs, it exits from the Load Truck form and returns to the menu. This can be used if multiple users are loading the same truck or if further verification must be done
before the final ship confirm is done.
Note: With direct ship functionality, when you are brought to the delivery information page, you can choose Confirm or Trip. The Confirm option is used when there is more than
one delivery loaded to the truck so you can cycle through the deliveries, updating the relevant information for each. The Trip option takes you directly to the trip page without
requiring you to visit the delivery information page for all other deliveries also loaded to that truck.
How to Perform Direct Shipping with LPN Reservations
A detailed reservation can be made at the LPN level, either manually, or via an LPN based completion of a job that is reserved to a sales order. When you are using direct ship with a
reserved LPN, rather than re-entering the sales order data, the system can automatically derive the sales order number and sales order lines tied to the LPN. You only need to scan the LPN,
enter any details about the delivery or freight costs, and the shipment is complete.
Direct Ship with LPNs Fully Reserved Flow Diagram

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Fully reserved LPNs may be shipped via Direct Ship without entering any sales order details. The LPNs may be reserved to one or more sales order lines.
Partially reserved LPNs may be shipped via Direct Ship without entering any sales order details for the reserved contents. You must still enter sales order details until the unreserved
material is consumed.
Unreserved LPNs may be shipped via Direct Ship by entering sales order details. You can ship only when the entire unreserved material in the given LPN is consumed by the entered
sales order lines.
The Order and Line Number fields are hidden in the Load Truck page of Direct Ship if the LPN is entirely reserved. Once you enter a LPN, a check will be made to see whether the LPN is
fully reserved or not. If the LPN is fully reserved then you can accept Next LPN or directly go ahead to load it. If the LPN is not reserved or is partially reserved then the Sales Order and Order
Line fields are visible.
Serial Controlled Items at Sales Order Issue
Serial numbers for serial controlled items at sales order issue are entered only after you have completely loaded an LPN. The Serial Entry page is displayed after you select <Next LPN>,
<Load/Exit>, <Continue/Ship>, or <Close Truck>.
Verify Lines are within Tolerances
Before loading the LPN, the system checks to see if the LPN has more quantity than the ordered quantities for the sales order lines. If there is some extra quantity it will check how much
extra can be shipped based on the over shipping tolerances of all the lines put together. If the extra quantity exceeds the over shipping tolerance the system will error and will not let you load
the LPN. If the extra quantity is within the overshipping tolerances, the system will spread the extra quantity on each delivery line within their respective overship tolerances until all the extra
quantity is consumed.
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If the LPN scanned belongs to project inventory, the system enables the selection of only those sales order lines that belong to the same project and task.
If the LPN is for a project and has serial controlled items with End Unit Effectivity, the system only allows the order lines that have the same project and end unit number.
If the project organization parameter is set for cross-unit number transactions, any serial can be selected irrespective of the end unit number.
If the project organization parameter is set for cross project issues, any sales order can be shipped against a project LPN. Sales order/ lines will not be filtered on project and task.

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