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VAL Order

When you perform operations on customer items within your logistics process that result in a new customer item, you use VAL-Order documents. This may involve merging different items to create another customer item, or it could pertain to the production of items within a production process. Ultimately, the goal is to use the input to generate your output.

To determine which input represents the output, you define this in your Recipe. This defines which quantities of which article is needed to generate a certain output.

Process

To set up the VAL process, start by correctly configuring the VAL Setup. The process begins with creating your document lines, where you indicate what you are going to produce and fill in the recipe number. The recipe number can also be linked to your customer item, allowing the system to automatically populate the used recipe. After filling in the recipe, proceed to the underlying process lines, which are generated based on your recipe.

The first part of the VAL process will be to outbound your input. You can apply Selection criteria to specify your input selection. The second part of your VAL process will be to receive your output.

Create a VAL-Order

  1. Navigate to the VAL Order List page.
  2. Click New to create a new VAL Order document.
  3. Fill in the Sell-to Customer No..
  4. Complete the remaining required fields based on your process.

After completing the steps above, the document header is finalized. We can now proceed to fill in the document line(s).

  1. To create a document line, fill in the No. field, which represents the Customer Item number you want to produce. This is based on the ** Material type** field. This field is set to default to Output or Usage, depending on your settings in the VAL Setup.
  2. Fill in the Quantity and if necessary, the weight you wish to produce.
  3. Fill in the Recipe in the Recipe No. field.
Tip

You can link recipes to customer items either in the customer item card or in the recipe card, ensuring that the information is filled in automatically.

  1. After entering the Recipe number, you can use the Recipe Refresh function from the action bar on the document line. This will generate the underlying process lines based on the recipe.
Tip

Status function 11154680 - 116 will automatically refresh the recipe for the document lines.

  1. Navigate to the process lines trough Processes in the action bar on the document line. At this stage, you can make any necessary changes to the process lines.
  2. Once you have checked the process lines, you can proceed with the allocation to collect the requested customer items and quantities.
  3. When posting the detail lines of your input, the negative inventory change has been done.

After completing the steps above, the input for your VAL-Order document has been gathered, and you can now initiate the production process.

  1. Once the production process is complete, you can receive the output products. Posting the detail lines for your output will then result in a positive inventory change.

In the end, after all detail lines have been posted, there may be some loss in weight during the production process. This could be due to waste, or conversely, the final product may have gained weight due to packaging. At this point, the system will identify a discrepancy in weight between the input and output. Therefore, before posting the VAL-Order document, the system will prompt you to account for any differences in weight, if applicable. As a result, you need to execute the Calculate Weight Difference function and determine the reason for the weight discrepancy. This will ensure that the weight balance between input and output is equal again.

Tip

You can automatically post the weight correction using status function 11154680 - 124. By setting the MARGIN % parameter, you can specify the percentage range within which the automatic waste correction is permitted to be executed.

  1. After completing the VAL-Order, you can either store your output or directly ship the produced items. For instance, you can use step 11190937 - 4 to automatically create a shipment for the produced goods.
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