MR.06: Warehouse Volume Analysis

Note that you can click the button (or press F5) to invoke field help at any time from within the job panel itself.

Business Benefits

In managing one or more Warehouses, it is important to monitor periodically the volumes that are being processed in each (Receipts, Shipments, Adjustments). This program summarizes the activities by Warehouse, showing each of these activities together with opening and closing balances.

Note: For related documentation and workflows, see MR - Management Reporting.

Usage

Use this job to produce a report showing the current volumes in each Warehouse for any selected date or range of dates.

Note:Because there may be Shipments that have not been confirmed at the time of printing this report, volumes shown may not be exact.

Preconditions

The transactions that are used to produce this report are generated by various programs:

OE.06 [Pick Confirmation]
OE.20 [Confirm or Modify Shipments]
OE.21 [Enter Shipped Orders]
RE.21 [Receipts]
RE.31 [Receipt Invoices]
OR.20 [Lots - Maintain / Adjust].

Subsequent Actions

Based on the figures in this report, you may need to initiate some action; e.g., if one Warehouse is experiencing a disproportionate amount of activity, you may wish to address the reasons for the imbalance.

Periodically, you may purge the data using program OR.62 [Analysis Activity - Purge].

Program Fields and Functions

To review a text version of the field help, click here. Click the button (or press F5) to invoke field help at any time from within the job panel itself.