Vehicle Goods Manager

System supports process of storing customer’s or vendor’s goods like wheel sets, hardtops, tire sets in dealer’s storage.

Process

The business process includes these functions:

1. Storing goods in dealer’s warehouse

2. Searching for existing and historical storage documents

3. Returning goods from warehouse and hand over to customer

Main document of Vehicle Goods Manager – VGM Order.

VGM Order will be built on two levels:

• VGM order header data

Containing data like document ID, header status, plant, description, reference to partner, object

• VGM order item data (main and sub items)

Containing item type dependent data like item type, item status, status description, rim type, size, manufacturer, storage data.

Each time the product will be handed over again from customer to plant a new document will be created, this means for each storage a new document will be generated.

New tool should support the actions like put the goods in storage, scrap goods. It should be possible to easily find the VGM order by customer, vehicle or plant.

Solution overview

VGM tool will consist of two parts:

• List with orders

• Detailed order view

VGM Order will be referenced with:

• Object data, whereby object can be VMS vehicle

• Partner data, whereby partner can be Business Partner

• Document data, whereby document can be VSS Order, CS Order, SRS Order

To control the processing of VGM Order the action matrices, linking actions and processing statuses were introduced. Action Matrix is a consolidated matrix of different actions/activities which can be carried out to a VGM order at any given moment of time and also the consequences once any action is executed. Action matrix primarily consists of different actions and related status to it. Every action does some processing like for example status change or document closure. 

VGM Order can have following example statuses:

• CANC     Cancelled

• CLOS      Closed

• CREA     Created

• PROC     Processing

• SCRP      Scrapped

• STRF      From Warehouse

• STRP      From Warehouse (partially)

• STSF       In Warehouse

• STSP       In Warehouse (partially)

To steer VGM Order statuses and life-cycle of VGM Order, example actions were provided:

• CANC     Cancel

• CHNG    Change

• CLOS      Close

• CREA     Create new Document

• CRER     Create with Reference

• DISP       Display

• ITMP      Generate Item Proposal

• PRIN      Print

• SCRP      Scrap

• STRE      Return from Warehouse

• STST       Store in Warehouse

• TBP        Create/Change Customer

• TVH        Create/Change Vehicle

• USCR     Undo Scrap

• USTR     Undo Return from Warehouse

• USTS      Undo Store in Warehouse