Hot-wired WIP-IN locations

When a certain item (e.g. cardboard boxes) is used for similar orders running on several resources close to one another, it might be interesting to put just 1 LPN containing this item on a location to save space, and call for a new one when it is almost empty.

At the end of a production order however, it is required to know how much was consumed for which order and how much is left, even when no counters or detailed registration is used.

This can be done with the hot-wired WIP-IN, which is a single LPN location.

On a hot-wired WIP-IN, it is possible to work with manual or automatic consumption registration or backflush. When working with automatic consumption registration or backflush, a minimum replenish level can be set (the level where a replenishment is automatically triggered).

If working with manual registrations, the remaining inventory on a hot-wired WIP-IN is consumed the moment the next LPN arrives on the location. When multiple jobs are active on the location, the theoretic ratio between input and output is used as division factor to assign consumptions from the LPN to each operation. If working with automatic registrations or backflush, the remaining inventory is not automatically consumed. In that case, the FIFO principle is followed, where the first LPN supplied (the most empty LPN) is consumed first. The location is still considered as a single LPN location.

When the last job (linked to the LPN) stops, the user gets the possibility to evacuate the LPN from the WIP-IN location. It can be set that the specification of the remaining quantity must be done when stopping the job, or when evacuating the LPN.