Oracle Inventory – Types of Move Orders:

Oracle Inventory – Types of Move Orders:

Move order is a formal request to transfer material within same inventory organization. Move Order is a request for a subinventory transfer or an account issue.

Move Orders allow planners to request the movement of material within the warehouse or facility for replenishment, material storage relocations and quality handling, etc. 

Move orders are restricted to transactions within an organization. If you are transferring material between organizations you must use the internal requisition process.

Oracle Inventory provides two predefined source types for all Move Orders

Subinventory transfer or

Account transfer.

Move Order approval setup is performed in Organization parameter menu.

Parameters:

Move Order Timeout Period – To define the timeout period in days.

Move Order Timeout Action – To define the timeout action whether to approve / reject the move orders automatically.

Move orders transaction details are stored in the below tables:

mtl_txn_request_headers

mtl_txn_request_lines

Profile option used for move order transactions is “TP: INV Move Order Transact Form”

This profile option allows the Move Order transaction mode to be set as either online, background or concurrent request.

Types of Move Orders:

1. Requisition Move Orders

2. Replenishment Move Orders

3. Pick Wave Move Orders

4. WIP issue Move Orders

Requisition move orders:

Requisition move orders are manually created by users. You can set approval conditions for it at organization parameters like move order timeout period and move order time out action. If these conditions are set then unless it is approved by planner you cannot transact it. You can allocate material before transacting the move order

Replenishment move orders:
Replenishment move orders are auto generated move order from inventory replenishment methods like Min Max planning, Kanban replenishment etc. These move orders are pre-approved and generated when material is sourced from another subinventory for same inventory organization

Pick Wave move orders:
Pick Wave move orders are generated in Order management application. Pick release process generates the pick wave move order to move material from source to staging sub inventory. This is also a pre-aapproved move order.

WIP issue move orders:

WIP issue move orders are automatically generated for backflush transfer & component issue transactions in pre-approved status.