Reassign Handling Unit
Explanation
This activity is used to reassign a handling unit from one shipment to another
new or an existing shipment. There are several situations where it may be necessary
to reassign a handling unit, for example to handle a limited transport capacity,
a backorder situation where you want to prepare the next delivery in advance,
a customer requiring a certain delivery schedule etc. The person responsible
for the shipment may realize that a handling unit must be reassigned at any
stage in the process, including just before loading the truck. Therefore, it
is possible, as long as the shipment is not delivered.
When reassigning a handling unit, the shipment line quantities attached to
the handling unit, are connected to the other shipment. As an option the reserved
and picked quantities attached to the handling unit can either be released or
reassigned to the other shipment. If the parts are picked and placed in the
shipment inventory they will not be released when reassigning a handling unit.
Prerequisites
- The shipment must not have been delivered
- A handling unit must have been created.
- When reassigning to an existing shipment, the
receiver ID,
receiver address, ship-via, delivery terms, and shipment type must
be the same on both shipments.
- There must not be any attached reservations pick listed, and not pick
reported yet.
- There must not be any package part or package part component attached
to the handling unit.
System Effects
As a result of this activity:
- The structure of the handling unit is reassigned from current shipment
to the other shipment.
- When reassigning to a new shipment, a new shipment is created and will
get the following values from current shipment:
receiver ID,
receiver address, ship-via, delivery terms, shipment type, planned
ship date, planned delivery date,
forwarder and route.
- The shipment line quantities attached to the handling unit will be disconnected
from the shipment lines of current shipment and connected to the destination
shipment.
- If there is not enough reserved or picked quantity attached to the handling
unit in order to carry out the reassignment, reservations are attached automatically
to the handling unit if possible. If not, it is possible that you get an
error message about this.
- If there are more available shipment line reservations that can be attached
to the handling unit you get a message where you can decide if this should
be done before reassigning the handling unit.
- The reserved and picked quantities attached to the
reassigned
handling unit will no longer be reserved on current shipment.
- Depending on whether or not you select to release the reservations,
the reservations attached to the handling unit are reassigned to the destination
shipment or released. Parts that are picked and placed in the shipment inventory
will always be reassigned to the destination shipment, since these parts
have to be handled in the shipment inventory.
- Both current and destination shipment will be turned back to the
Preliminary status if they have the Complete status when reassigning
a handling unit. The reason is to indicate that your handling unit structure
and documents must be reviewed before delivery.
Note that the reassignment is done for the handling unit including its sub-nodes
i.e. when referring to handling unit above it includes the sub-nodes as well.