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Managing and planning slow moving and obsolete items

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Michaela S

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6/19/2018 1:19 AM

Hi,

my company has several warehouses in different areas. Every warehouse manages its inventory and purchasing by itself. Some of our products become obsolete for some warehouses but they still can be sold from another warehouse.

We have defined obsoletes as items with no sale for more than one year for every warehouse (it means every warehouse may have different obsoletes) and run a report of obsoletes every month. Right now there are hundreds of items.

My question is if there is an option of setup that would prevent from buying from a supplier an item that is obsolete in some warehouse. In other words, if the purchased item by warehouse 1 is an obsolete item in warehouse 2, the system creates a message for example "Item xyz is obsolete in the warehouse 2, please check" before the purchase order is processed and sent to a supplier?

Or do you have any better idea how to manage that kind of items?

Thanks for help

Michaela

David Williams

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6/19/2018 10:38 AM

I don’t see a delivered solution. I think you’d have to create custom reports for each warehouse that looks at demand and checks for overstock, or obsolete, goods that are available from the other warehouses. Your warehouse managers would need to run this report before running their replenishment jobs daily, or at least one day per week.

Do you have any central oversight? You might just be better off identifying slow moving, obsolete or overstocked items at each location and have them ship to your other warehouses per your instructions.

JonA

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6/19/2018 11:07 AM

If the aim is to deplete the obsolete stock at Location A and then inactivate how about changing the replenishment to intransit transfer for Location B where the stock is still in use? Once the SOH = 0 at Location A, the IC12 is inactivated and Location B is notified to change their replenishment back to the supplier.

Or maybe just arrange for the entire remaining stock to be transferred to the warehouses still using it and be done. We do this for items where we're moving to a new product and need to use up the old. Our smaller locations where the use is low will send the remaining stock to our largest location where it will be used up faster.