Process overview

Picking list and Picking list registration (From warehouse)

When a D365 warehouse has been loaded as a 3PL Trading partner and has the Picking list document setup and enabled, posting a sales or transfer order’s picking list will create an outbound staging record to send to the 3PL instructing them to ship the stock.
The 3PL then returns the Picking list registration document, confirming what has/will be shipped.

The inbound Picking list registration documents needs to refer back to original Picking list:

• Picking route (PickingRouteID)
• Lot ID (InventTransId) or Line number (LineNum) - depending on document setting ‘Line matching strategy’
• Inventory’s:
  • Product dimensions
  • Storage dimensions like Inventory status

Shipment advice and Shipment receipts (To warehouse)

When a D365 warehouse has been loaded as a 3PL Trading partner and has the Shipment advice document(s) setup and enabled, the following trigger points will create an outbound staging record to inform the 3PL of inbound stock to their warehouse:

• Purchase order - Generate Receipts list, by navigating to Accounts payable > Purchase order > All purchase orders and Receive tab on the Action Pane.
• Transfer order - Ship transfer order, by navigating to Inventory management > Inbound orders > Transfer order and Ship tab on the Action Pane.
• Return order - Send Return order, by navigating to Accounts receivable > Orders > All return orders and Return order tab on the Action Pane.
• Voyage - Send to EDI, by navigating to Landed cost > Voyages > All voyages and Manage tab on the Action Pane.

The 3PL then returns the Shipment receipt document (s), confirming what has been received:

• Purchase order - Post D365 arrival journal and optionally post purchase order’s product receipt for registered stock.
• Transfer order - Post D365 arrival journal and optionally receive transfer order.
• Return order - Create D365 arrival journal and optionally post arrival journal or delivery note.
• Voyage - Create D365 arrival journal and optionally post arrival journal.

The inbound Shipment receipt documents needs to refer back to original Shipment advice:

• Purchase order
  • Purchase order (PurchId)
  • Receipts list (ReceiptsListId)
  • Lot ID (InventTransId)
  • Inventory’s:
    • Product dimensions
    • Storage dimensions like Inventory status
• Transfer order
  • Transfer number (InventTransferId)
  • Lot ID (InventTransId)
  • Inventory’s:
    • Product dimensions
    • Storage dimensions like Inventory status
• Return order
  • RMA number (ReturnItemNum)
  • Lot ID (InventTransId)
  • Inventory’s:
    • Product dimensions
    • Storage dimensions like Inventory status
• Voyage
  • Voyage (ShipId)
  • Lot ID (InventTransId)
  • Inventory’s:
    • Product dimensions
    • Storage dimensions like Inventory status

Inventory adjustments

Various inbound documents are available for a 3PL to adjust inventory.

• Transfer - Used for transfers between batches or between inventory statuses.
• Counting - Compares 3PL’s on-hand to D365’s on hand and creates movement journals for the variances.
• Reconciliation - Compares 3PL’s on-hand to D365’s on hand at the end of specified date and creates movement journals for the accepted variances. Has an additional EDI reconciliation page that users can manage which variances are accepted/rejected. Also has the option on including all inventory for the warehouse.
• Movement - 3PL informs company of up or down quantity adjustments in inventory.

Master data

The following outbound document existing for 3PL master data.

• Product master - Advise 3PL of new products or changes to products that applies to the 3PL warehouses. The product is flagged as applicable to the 3PL warehouse by:
  
  • Manual: Product information management > Products > Released products. On the Action Pane select Product tab and use the EDI 3PL product setup to assign the product to the 3PL warehouse.
  • Periodic: EDI > Periodic Tasks > 3PL products > Product configuration update. Based on inventory transactions, the periodic task can create the EDI 3PL product setup records.

EDI history

The following D365 pages includes a History button, which provides users the ability to easily access EDI staging records related to the record:

• Sales order - Available on the EDI tab on the Action Pane:
  • Picking list
  • Picking list registration
• Purchase order - Available on the EDI tab on the Action Pane:
  • Shipment advice - Purchase order
  • Shipment receipt - Purchase order
• Transfer order - Available on the Transfer order tab on the Action Pane:
  • Picking list
  • Picking list registration
  • Shipment advice - Transfer order
  • Shipment receipt - Transfer order
• Return order - Available on the Return order tab on the Action Pane:
  • Shipment advice - Return order
  • Shipment receipt - Return order
• Voyage - Available on the Manage tab on the Action Pane:
  • Shipment advice - Voyage
  • Shipment receipt - Voyage

Summary

The following table provides a summary of how the various documents relate for the warehouse (WH) and the minimum D365 transaction created for the inbound document.

Document errors

When an incoming staging record/document errors, it has not created/updated the target D365 transaction.
When an outgoing staging record/document errors, it has not created the Outbound file.

Staging/document errors can be viewed at:

• EDI > Documents - On each document type, user can set filter Staging to target status to Error
• EDI > EDI Document maintenance - The workspace contains a tile and tab for each document type.

Users can use Show log and Version log to review the issues. And after the issue has been fixed, reset the status of the record. The next processing batch will pick up the Not started status record.

Fixing Staging-to-Target EDI errors

See FAQ for example errors and possible method(s) of fixing.