Move Orders

A move order is a request for a subinventory transfer or account issue (also called an account transfer). When using an account transfer,, the actual movement is an issue, not a transfer from subinventory to subinventory. Using move orders, you can manage all material requisitions and request processes within an organization by manually or automatically creating, approving and transaction a move order.

Move orders allow planners and facility managers to request the movement of material within the four walls of awarehouse or facility for replenishment, material storage relocation's, quality handlingor other purposes.Individual users can request move orders, and Oracle Inventory automatically createsmove orders when warranted for inventory replenishment and order picking.This lesson covers the basic types of move orders, their uses, and the benefits ofmanaging inventory movement by using move orders.

Managed Material Flow
Oracle Inventory uses move orders to distinguish the user roles that should manage inventory levels from those who carry out actual transactions. This provides:Faster Response: You can now request a transaction and forward the request on to a picker for actual transaction execution. The request is tracked in Oracle Inventory to avoid manual systems that can result in inaccurate information transfer. When warranted, replenishment mechanisms can automatically generate move orders without the intervention of an item planner for simple cases where the material is drawn from within the facility. This results in faster inventory replenishment with minimal human intervention.Warehouse Visibility: Move orders use inventory picking rules to determine where to source material for a subinventory or account transfer. This ensures that the same mechanisms created to rotate material properly for deliveries can be used to rotate material within the facility. It also uses the material visibility in Oracle’s Inventory to suggest source locations, lots, and so on automatically.Tracking: Move orders can be transacted through Application Program Interface. APIs allow you to use mobile devices to transact, giving you better material visibility and accuracy. Move orders can also be created to cross-dock material to staging locations.

Source Types
Oracle Inventory provides two types of move orders. The move order type refers to the entity that created the move order. For all move orders, the final result is one of the two supported transactions: subinventory or account transfer.Move Order Requisition: The requisition is a manually generated request for a move order. You must create a move order requisition. You can generate requests for subinventory transfers or account transfers. The requisition can optionally go through an Oracle Workflow approval process before it becomes a move order. If no approval process is used, the requisition becomes a move order immediately.Replenishment Move Order: These move orders are generated by Kanban cards where the pull sequence calls for a subinventory transfer (intraorganization kanbans), or by min-max planned items where the item’s replenishment source (set at the item-subinventory level) is another subinventory. In this case, the min max or replenishment count report automatically generates a move order. Replenishment move orders are preapproved and ready to be transacted.Pick Wave Move Orders: The pick release process generates move orders to bring the material from its source location in stores to a staging location, which you define as a subinventory in Oracle Inventory. This transaction is a subinventory transfer.

Move Order Process Flow
Move Orders Process Flow
Picking Source location
Destination location
Put away
Pick Ticket
Move order locates material sources
In case of shortage move order can be re-planned
Move order requisition created
Approve move order

Inventory Interview Questions

1) In organization setup, there is a field called "internal/external" and is set to internal by default. What is the difference between internal and external orgs?

- You cannot assign people to an external organization. Examples of external organizations that may require entry are disability organizations, benefits carriers, insurance carriers, organizations that employees name as beneficiaries of certain employee benefits, and organizations that are recipients of third party payments from employees' pay.

2) What is LPN? (Organization setup screen)
- LPN - License plate numbers, these are unique identifications method in Warehouse Management Module.


3) In min-max planning report, I found that re-order quantity was greater than max order quantity (request id 4403463). Shouldn't it be lesser than the max order qty?
- It depends on if you have give both min and max values, if you have specified both min/max values and given a reorder qty, your reorder will be > max.

4) What is the next step after re-order qty is calculated by min-max planning report? How is replenishment done?
- Re-run the min-max planning and set the Re-stock Parameter = 'Yes', this will trigger an internal requisition in Purchasing.

5) I tried running re-order point planning report. The request has a parameter called forecast. I wasn't sure of what needs to be entered there.
- You can create forecast rules either from Inventory or from MRP and assign a forecast rule to Re-order point planning.