Cross Docking

Kinetic ERP
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Does anyone know what cross docking really does? From my understanding it could be used to auto allocate received inventory to orders that are waiting on items for fulfillment and then released automatically. Not sure if we still have to release the order manually or not.

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Yes, it reserves a pending PO receipt for a specific job. In my experience, it is very hard to reverse a cross dock once it is created. That is, if you change your mind you will still have to receive the goods to the job, return them to stock, and issue to the other job.

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Ok, so do you know of any other way to allocate received inventory to an order without having to look up items received and release them in fulfillment workbench automatically?

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Would buy to order on the Sales Order work?

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I would use Cross Dock. I just wanted to give you the warning that they are hard to reverse (but this might have been addressed since the version I used it on). It is still your best option, just don’t be surprised if users complain if they try to use the cross docked quantity on another job :slight_smile:

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Do you have to create an allocation template in order to enable cross docking?

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I do not believe so. You just need to create the cross dock in the Fulfillment Workbench

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I think once we start getting cycle counts done it will be less of an issue with using the inventory for another order as it will be correct when looking at fulfillment workbench to release new orders. I am not too sure how this would work. My thoughts are that if we don’t have the inventory then we can use the allocation template. But if it’s something that has to be used on every order, there would need to be a little more research done. We mostly want to use this to try and avoid having to look through received inventory for back orders, not for reserving and allocating new orders

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Would the cross dock be able to prioritize by first come first serve? Or what do you think would be the best way to prioritize allocations? By ship date?

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I believe in order to Cross Dock the PO must already be released and you are just saying PO 123 Line 1 for a quantity of 100, 25 are going to Job 456. Then when the receiver receives it there is some notification to move 25 pieces to the job.

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Thank you for the explanations! This really helps clear things up a lot

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A few comments on Cross Docking.

  1. You can remove the cross-docking by un-allocating the part
  2. Cross-docking does not require a PO or Job to be created prior to attempting to allocate. What will happen is that when the part is received into inventory, it will immediately allocate to the part.
  3. Setting the priority will allow an order to jump in front of another order.
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Thanks for jumping in @LarsonSolutions ! It’s been a while since I have used Cross Docking

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When you use Cross Docking, what determines what gets allocated first if all cross docked parts have the same priority. Is it whatever gets Cross Docked first, regardless of the due date on the release?

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I have the same question as Travis

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Sorry i’m Necroposting here…

But how do people generate the movement requests from the cross dock

Our dispatch warehouse is fed from out “bulk storage” yard via Replenishment type STOCK
Out “Bulk storage” is fed by out Manufacturing Facility by AUTO

But as the Sales order demand goes on, we auto allocated + Cross dock the quantity (not release for pick), we are expecting to see replenishment movements to satisfy the demand warehouse as the order is cross docked, and the replenishment is set.

just cant seem to make that work? any ideas anyone?

Sorry as always