Move Orders in Oracle Apps

Move orders are requests for the movement of material within a single organization. They allow movement of material within a warehouse or facility for purposes like replenishment, material storage relocations, and quality handling. You can generate move orders either manually or automatically.

Move orders are restricted to transactions within an organization. If you are transferring material between organizations you must use the internal requisition process.

There are three types of move orders in Oracle:

Move Order Requisition

A move order requisition is a manually generated request for a move order. It is available for sub-inventory transfers and account transfers. Once a requisition has been approved, it becomes a move order. These requests can optionally go through a workflow-based approval process before they become move orders ready to be sourced and transacted.

Replenishment Move Order

You can automatically create pre-approved move orders using the following planning and replenishment functions. These processes generate move orders if the material is sourced from another inventory location within the organization.

Min-Max Planning:  When a minimum quantity for a specific item is reached in inventory, you can use a move order to replenish the supply. 

Replenishment Counting: If a system that uses replenishment counting triggers an item for replenishment, you can use move orders to replenish the supply. 

Kanban Replenishment: When a Kanban card signals the need to release an item into a sub-inventory, you can generate a move order to handle the release.

Pick Wave Move Orders

Pick wave move orders are pre-approved requests for subinventory transfers to bring material from a source location in the warehouse to a staging subinventory. These move orders are generated automatically by the Oracle Shipping Execution pick release process.

For all move orders, the final result is one of the two supported transactions:

1.      Subinventory Transfer or

2.      Account Issue.

Move Order Process Flow:

Create a move order for required material

Approve the move order lines

Allocate the move order

Print a pick slip

Transact move order lines

Note:

·         Replenishment and Pick Wave move orders are pre-approved.

·        The Move Order Pick Slip report generates pick slips for move order requisitions and replenishment move orders. To generate a pick slip for pick wave move orders, you need to submit the Oracle Shipping Execution Pick Slip report.