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Michael Rathmell *MUGA
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Multiple warehouse Pickups then deliver to one customer scenarios

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We are looking to implement a solution in M3 where we have a Customer Order that will stop at multiple warehouses and then deliver to one destination.
The reason for this is that we have 2 Production Plants, 1 in Colorado & 1 in Missouri, that produce different products. Currently we are distributing these products to balance out inventory but this requires more shipping costs and truck scheduling.
Scenario: Customer Order is received with products that are produced in both  Read more...plants. Customer is located in NY. We would like to schedule a truck to pickup product from our Colorado plant, then continue to our Missouri plant and pickup the remaining products, and then end at our customer location in NY.
Just checking with this group based on a recommendation from Infor to see if any other users are experienced with this type of Order fulfillment and any tips on how to overcome any challenges in M3. We've created the following list of possible limitations.
Summary Invoicing would be required for multi pickup POs.
Multiple ASNs or combined ASNs? Current ASN logic is by delivery.
Routes? ###MPU Routes are set for loading warehouse and only one route per shipment.
CO header has set information for Facility and Warehouse; would CO line create separate Delivery?
Costs for order fulfillment from AOD vs 3PL facilities.
Pick up times? Departure times? How can M3 capture 2 pick up arrival times and 2 pick-up departure times.
Shipment Portal with multiple deliveries would cause issues for closing customer orders with a BOL.
Would need to code in exceptions to current stops of keeping shipping team .

Thanks in advance for any input you all could provide!
Michael R
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Elise Sheppard
My first thought is to use supply model to toggle between normal orders and these--this could be set with supply model as order-initiated, which could hard-tie DO-CO. Or if you never have the product on-hand, can be hard-tied MO-DO-CO. CO could effectively be out of the last MO warehouse; or could maybe do as ship-via? Just spitballing off the top of my head. I can definitely see the challenges when using 3PL.

For our biggest biz division, we have 3 manufacturing plants that only  Read more...process DOs--COs always come out of distro. So we set up all of our supply routes, etc. to get product to the end warehouse and fulfill COs from there. Show less...
William Bolin
Hi Michael,
I don't think M3 is naturally going to gracefully take what you're thinking with one truck, one shipment, two outbounds to one final destination. You might be able to hack it in some way, but… Going off of what Elise said, you may be better off with a single warehouse that delivers everything to the customer and an order initiated CO line from the second warehouse. So if the customer orders a Missouri thing and a Colorado thing, the CO has a line type 1 for the Colorado  Read more...item and a normal line for the Missouri item. The line type 1 creates a DO to be shipped to Missouri that is already pre-allocated for the delivery to NY. Once it arrives you can just cross dock it over and ship it out. And if you have joint delivery set up, you can combine the Missouri item with the newly arrived Colorado item and have them both go out to NY at the same time. Show less...
Michael Rathmell
Thanks Elise and William for your feedback and help! I haven't had much experience with Supply Model so we will have to investigate that a little further. Our products have a limited shelf life so that's another reason why we try to minimize travel time.
I like the "hack" idea and will see if we can utilize DO's and CO's in combination.

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