1. Inventory and Warehouse Processes

2. Introduction
Inventory and warehouse management are closely related to the fulfillment and production processes
Warehouses often supply raw materials to manufacturing
Warehouses store and move finished and semi-finished good

3. Inventory Models

4. Inventory With OFBiz Facility - warehouse Area Aisle Level High rack
Position
Picking 01 02

5. Inventory with OFBiz

6. Types of Goods Movement
Receipt from production or procurement
Increases finished goods or trading goods inventory
Goods issue to production or fulfillment
Or destruction (disposal)
Decreases raw material inventory
Transfer postings change the status of a good
Stock transfers
Move goods from plant to plant or storage location

7. Types of Goods (OFBiz Status)
Inventory status varies based on whether it is serialized or not

8. Goods Status (Discussion)
We can sell unrestricted stock
Transit/Transf stock is stock in motion
Restricted use stock includes reservations
Blocked stock is stock received “conditionally” pending acceptance
A batch is a subset of stock managed separately from the material itself

9. Goods Receipt
Remember it’s a receipt of goods into inventory from a vendor
Goods receipts are triggered by
Goods received from vendor from purchase
Unplanned receipts
Customer returns
THERE IS AN ACCOUNTING CONSEQUENCE
Logistics / Materials Management / Inventory Management / Goods Movement

10. Goods Issue
To review, goods are leaving inventory typically sold to a customer
THERE IS AN ACCOUNTING CONSEQUENCE
Goods issue event is triggered by
Planned resulting from a sales order
Unplanned
Scrap / internal consumption / sampling

11. Internal Warehouse Processes
What happens in the warehouse stays in the warehouse
THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE
We are just moving goods around. We are not revaluing them, buying them, or selling them
We will discuss in 2 parts
The organizational units
The processes of moving goods

12. WM Organizational Units

13. WM Organizational Units
Type
Configured as Pick/Primary and High rack but we could add others
Area
Asile
Section
Level
Position
Preferred stock levels

14. WM Organizational Units

15. WM Organization
Doors are locations where goods are received or shipped

16. Transfer Postings Change the status of a material in stock
Unrestricted use
QA / QC
Blocked
In transit
Transfer postings do not always result in the physical movement of goods
They might just change the logical status of a good

17. Transfer Postings (Examples)
From vendor owned inventory to company owned inventory
The vendor stores their materials in our warehouse (consignment stock)
Change a material’s characteristics over time
OFBiz does not fully support all of these

18. Stock Transfers
Use to physically move materials from one organizational level to another
Plant
Storage location
Etc.

19. OFBiz Stock Transfer

20. Fulfillment Steps After outbound delivery and before goods issue
Warehouse issues transfer orders
Create and confirm
Goods physically move from storage bins (locations) to interim storage

21. Production (steps) The same confirmations are made
When raw materials are issued to production
When finished goods are transferred back to the warehouse

22. WH Controlling

23. Processes Warehouse automation videos
Process change
Picking and return
Automated pharma

24. Warehouse Automation (Implementation)
SSI Schneider is designed to operate with SAP
Web Services?
Other systems have APIs for picking and goods movement
OFBiz custom code?