Hi everyone,
have you ever encountered a scenario where a mobile warehouse (a physical van/truck), managed in IFS as a Remote Warehouse, is temporarily moved from one site to another? How did you manage that situation?
In my case, I have:
- one company
- two sites
- two central warehouses (one per site)
- multiple vans, each modeled in IFS as Remote Warehouses (mobile stock physically on trucks)
Service requests are opened for specific service organizations, which procure materials from a given site. However, vans may move between sites.
This creates an issue:
- the demand on the task is linked to Site A,
- but the van (i.e. the mobile/remote warehouse physically carrying the stock) is currently operating under Site B.
In addition, the technician is driving the van and executes the work using the IFS mobile app, consuming materials directly from the VAN (Remote Warehouse).
This raises two key questions:
- how should material reservation be managed in this cross-site scenario?
- how should execution/consumption from the mobile app be handled when the VAN is not aligned with the task’s site?
In this situation, how can reservations and execution be managed correctly?
Thanks