IC140/IC66 Replenishment PO worksheet

We use a combination of both depending on the warehouse. For our main warehouse where the inventory counts are good, the inventory coordinator runs the WH140 at the end of the day, creating the IC66 worksheet. Then she gives it a quick review and releases it.

We have two warehouses where the counts can't be trusted: Sterile Processing and our RXP (pharmaceuticals). For these, instead of running the WH140 and having to delete a bunch of stuff, the coordinators go directly into the IC66 and input the needed items there.

A couple of things we've learned:
1) On IC66 you can only put a quantity that is a multiple of how it comes but you are ordering in eaches. So, say item 12345 comes in 20's and I want 2 boxes. I have to put in that I need 40.

2) We have scheduled PO100 jobs that run on the hour to pick up orders and requisitions and move them to POs. We've learned that we have to have different ones for different days of the week in order to not have expected delivery dates on weekends. We had vendors who were taking that seriously and trying to deliver on Saturdays. So Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday's PO100 jobs have 3 days on them and Thurs and Fridays PO100 jobs have 5 days on them to account for the weekend. We originally tried to address this with lead time days on IC12 and hated it so we went to programming PO100's to take care of it for us (thank you IT!)

3) All orders go to Purchasing as unreleased POs and the buyers are responsible for releasing them and following up on any PO issues that occur. This gives us a second check just in case. The system will automatically order to account for whatever the requesters have asked for as well as the par levels in the warehouse. We had a requester that asked for thousands of something by accident.
The coordinator missed it when she ran the IC140 but the buyer caught it before it was ordered.

Hope this helps -

Michelle

We use the IC140 and have it set on a auto job schedule to run daily (10:30am, for all inventory items). The created purchase orders are sent to the buyers PO20 where they are reveiwed by the buyer and released. For those vendors with specific order days, the purchase order is deleted out of the PO20 until their specific order day.

Sheri

We have a job set with IC140 - one for each weekday with the order days parameter set (Monday=Y on Monday's run, Tuesday=Y on Tuesday's run, etc. - with PO10.2 order day set for specific vendors), then the PO100 for IC is the 2nd step in the job set - Release PO's parameter = Y.

One consideration when thinking about using IC140/IC66 is that there is no "transaction document" created. In other words there is no requisition, or similar document. This becomes a bit problematic for the inventory manager when trying to work through issues such as items that get stuck in PO23 (not picked up by PO100) and vendor backorders.

Is it possible to perform an IC66 using the handhelds (MSCM)?