ASN splitting is required when an inbound Transfer Order booking is directly supplying goods to one or more outbound Sales Orders. In other words, certain Sales Orders have been prioritised by the client (ROOM) to be allocated goods directly from an inbound Transfer Order.
Operationally this means that when the warehouse receives all the goods in the inbound Transfer Order, instead of putting them all away in the warehouse, they must separately allocate goods to the correct outbound Sales Orders, and place those goods in a “cross-dock” area ready for fulfilment, without the need to put all goods away and then pick & pack to those sales orders.
To instruct the warehouse, the inbound Transfer Order needs to be split into multiple ASNs are follows:
One ASN for each Sales Order that has been allocated to this Transfer Order, each containing the goods required by the individual Sales Order, and containing the linked Sales Order reference to indicate the cross-dock instruction
One ASN for the remaining goods (i.e. all SKUs / quantities left over after all the linked Sales Orders have been processed) - these are the goods not needed for cross-dock and so will be put away.
Please note that any inbound Transfer Order that has no linked Sales Orders, will be treated as one ASN where all goods will be put away.