Let’s assume we have a company where we use different service car, different vendors.
We transport maybe to different shops, so we are using different location.
In that example, I would like to plan in my simple MRP with running the planning for transfer orders first, because I have a main location, my production location.
That’s where I’m producing, where I’m buying to, and my main inventory.
It could also be just an inventory.
And from that, I’m distributing items around the world.
Therefore, I have in my simple MIP, I have a template in here where I want to calculate transfer orders to, for example, safety stock.
I could also transfer them to zero or whatever.
This example, so safety stock, and I made a template where I don’t look at production items.
This means this template is without the location code production.
So I’m planning according to, oh sorry, actually according to zero on the template.
I named it wrong.
And I’m suggesting quantity to order automatically.
And I’m planning with location filter, not production.
So I’m looking at all the other locations around my shops, my service car, everything that I’m pushing items to from my production location, because I want to plan on my production location afterwards.
Now, in this example, I have one item to service car number one.
This means I would expect service car number one to come back on my inventory to pick up this one item.
So service car number one is here.
I will expect this one to come back on inventory.
But the issue is, of course, the one item that he needs is a tube.
It’s the tube up here that he wants to fill into his truck like this.
And if I suggest quantity to order on that one or all of the lines and I carry out action message only for my service car and carry out actions, it will be moved to the reverse planning worksheet like this.
Now, to avoid a lot of gas on this truck or electricity on this truck, the service car, I would like to fill up everything else according to safety stock, maybe a reorder point.
So I’d like to see what else I can utilize when it’s here anyway.
So what I have is another journal we call direct replenishment.
Direct replenishment is meant to show me all items within a specific filter, specific criteria.
So now I would like to look at all the items that I’ve made stock keeping units for for this car.
So for each service car, I could make stock keeping units with min max or safety stock and reorder points to control what should be in that car.
So what I do now, I will say calculate direct replenishment.
I will use a template which is transfer orders.
So I would like to transfer to reorder point plus reorder quantity just to see what we could put in here.
I would like to use SKU cards that is only transfer.
So I’m filtering on stock human units, only transfer orders into that location.
And I want to make sure looking at my template card, I want to make sure that I don’t delete the lines that I already planned.
So this skip if already planned checkmark, I like this one to be set.
And that way I leave the one line that already planned.
I would expect to plan for service car one, because that’s the one I’m going to fill up.
So now I will see all the lines for all the items here in the car.
And I could suggest quantity to order here.
It already did.
It’s a reorder point because I set it up in the template.
A reorder point plus reorder quantity backward from zero.
I’m rounding up using order modifiers.
So from this view, I can see what else we need to want to put in his car.
So when he’s here anyway, would we like to actually fulfill, fill up all of this stuff here for his car or whatever? So if we’re doing that, I could filter for quantity to order base.
I think I don’t even need to filter.
I could just set action measures here and then carry out because those will all be carried into the reverse planning worksheet.
So now I’d expect to have my tube from before as the first line and all the other lines.
So now I can make a pick, I can make a transfer order for all of this, a transfer from production into that car and have that prepared when it comes home.
So in this way, I can use my direct replenishment to create lines manually that normally wouldn’t show up in the journal.