Definition
A supply order is any incoming order that will supply or replenish your warehouse. A supply order comes from one of your suppliers.
- Purchase Orders (PO's) - these are new purchases, which come from your vendors.
Transfer Orders - come from a sending warehouse within your supply chain network. When still in progress, the Transfer Order can be either Open, indicating it has not yet been pulled from the sending warehouse, or Released, indicating it has been pulled out of inventory and is en route. When a transfer is still in "Open" status, StockIQ will automatically create the pending demand record out of the sending warehouse, so that available inventory is reduced appropriately.
NOTE: A transfer from a warehouse back into the same warehouse, such as a move between locations in one building, doesn't change what that warehouse has, so StockIQ creates no pending demand for it. While it is Open it isn't counted as incoming supply, and once it is Released its quantity counts as available right away instead of on its receipt date.
- Work Orders - Sometimes known as Manufacturing Orders, these are orders to build product in one of your Manufacturing facilities. Like transfers, they can show as Open or Released, and in fact can be partially released if a SupplyOrderBoM data feed is provided, if you do partial issuing of quantities on your work orders. Also like transfers, when you have open, unissued components on the work order, StockIQ automatically creates the pending demands on the components of the finished good to correctly reduce available inventory for those components.