Ship nodes

You can view the item's available inventory broken down by node in this screen. This screen can be reached from the Inventory Summary screen by clicking the Ship Node View icon.

If your organization does not maintain distribution, only the nodes owned by the organization entered in the item search are displayed. If your organization does maintain distribution, all nodes in your distribution are displayed.

Table 1. Ship nodes screen, item information
Fields Description
Organization Code The organization associated with the ship node.
Item ID The item ID.
Product Class The item's classification, such as first quality, second quality, or finished good. Orders for items are placed against this classification.
Unit of Measure The item's unit of measure.
Tracked Everywhere Displays Y if inventory is tracked at all nodes. Displays N if some ship nodes are configured on the system as INFINITE inventory nodes and therefore actual inventory information is not available.
Description Description of the item.
Consider All Nodes Select Consider All Nodes to see the item's availability picture across all nodes in your inventory consolidation.
Distribution Rule Select Distribution Rule to see the availability picture across that distribution. A distribution rule establishes the ship node determination process. It determines the default nodes that an item should be sourced from based on priority.

For example, if you source the same item from multiple ship nodes, but have to set one of the ship nodes as the primary distributor of the item, you may create a distribution rule in the Applications Manager assigning that particular source node with the highest priority for shipping the item.

Segmentation Select All Inventory - Displays quantity of segmented (set aside in order to fulfill demand from designated customers) and unsegmented items.

Select Unsegmented Inventory - Enables display of items that have not been designated as segmented.

Select Consider Segment Type - Choose the type of segmentation from the drop-down list:

MTC - Made to Customer

MTO - Made to Order

Enter the Segment name. Segment is defined at the time of order creation or inventory adjustment.

Horizon End Date Enter the date up to which you want supply, demand, and availability to be calculated.
Table 2. Ship nodes screen, nodes
Actions Description
View Node Detail This action takes you to the Ship Node Detail screen for viewing the inventory details on the selected ship node.
Fields
Ship Node The node responsible for shipping the item. Click this link to view the ship node details.
Supply Total inventory expected at the node through the date entered in Horizon End Date.

Supply is calculated through the date entered in Horizon End Date.

  • Supply Type - The type of inventory supply of the item. For example, ONHAND, HOLD are valid supply types.
  • Quantity - The quantity of the supply type. Click this link to view the Supply Type Details.
Demand The amount of inventory at the node that becomes outgoing due to reservations and orders.

Total Demand is calculated through the date entered in Horizon End Date.

  • Demand Type - The type of inventory demand of the item. For example, ALLOCATED, OPEN ORDER are valid demand types.
  • Quantity - The quantity of the demand type. Click this link to view the Demand List.
Tracked Displays Y if this ship node tracks inventory using Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation.
Supply / Demand Displays the relative proportion of items in supply and demand.