Marty Zigman

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Prolecto Freight Container

To track and manage the logistics for inventory purchases from manufacture to final destination warehouses.

Conceived before NetSuite created the Inbound Shipment Record, the Prolecto Freight Container system offers more flexible models leveraging native transfer orders to represent in-transit flows.

Bundle ID

Ask for Bundle ID: 125246.

Version History

20230314.RC

  1. Refinements for Bin assignment issues
  2. Refinements on errors when creating transfer order
  3. Other refinements for direct import business

20221221.RC

Additional stability refinements from the major upgrade.  

20220913.RC

MAJOR REVISION.  DO NOT UPGRADE WITHOUT PROLECTO RESOURCES CONSULTATION.
  • Migration of major components to simplify system.
  • Moved all landed costs elements to the Prolecto Landed Cost Library
  • Moved all Production PO-related items to BPA General
  • Significant enhancements to the user documentation and guides

20220715.RC

Refinements to 20220609.RC.   Last revision before major rework to split bundle for Landed Cost Applications.

20220609.RC

  • Support for Direct Import flows with related Purchase Order generator
  • Support for scheduled inventory commitments 

20220216.RC

Significant enhancements:
  • Container design to allow multiple IR per container.
  • Lock Item Receipt (created from Purchase Order) feature by related Container status.
  • “Mark In-transit” Operation in Vessel and Container level, during the creation of transfer order item fulfillment process.
  • Container’s healing to Transfer Order as underlying references change 
  • Container status updates automatically depending on dependent records.
  • Enhanced support for assembly item in landed cost with percentage allocation method
  • Vessel Logic to mark as received once all containers are received.
  • Added support for two options for landed cost percentage value calculations: "Item Receipt Cost" and "Location Average Cost".
  • Added logic and app.setting to the PO Item Receipt so that the Date is the same as the Container Sailing Date.
  • Add a warning on Item Receipt when there is no related item version/landed cost template for an inventory item

20211124.RC

Enhancements to allow for more complex freight container preparation logistics:
  1. Allow for multiple item receipts to a targeted container so long as the container is at the Origin Port.
  2. Do not create the freight transfer order until the container status is In Transit. 

20200601.RC

Refinements to item version record to facilitate better filtering during transaction usage.

20200306.RC

Refinements for reference to usage guide and script deployments to ease installation into new environments.

20181011.RC

Updates to handle Bin management with the assumption that item consumption automatically pulls from the defined preferred Bin.

20180415.RC

Refinements for latency landed cost testing and usability enhancements.

20180329.RC

More usability refinements.

20180312.RC

Enhancements for landed cost latency challenge with NetSuite costing calculator for item consumption item adjustments.

20171211.RC

Enhancements for Production Purchase Order copy header and lines. Built feature to recalculate lines to pull freshest prices form the item master / version. Other usage refinements.

20171103.RC

Refinements to views, defaults and presentation.

20170731.RC

Added PO generator. Added mechanism to update period table to facilitate faster reporting for inventory counts.

20170509.RC

Added capacity to perform item receipts on item groups against purchase orders and transfer orders.

20170417.RC

Blanket Production Purchase Order concepts.

20170316.RC

Stabilization Refinements

20170315.RC

Additional refinements

20170313.RC

Refinements to latest updates.

20170307.RC

Added item version concepts with linkages to Landed Cost Templates to drive line based landed costs based on destination. Additional refinements to produce linkages between purchase order and ultimate transfer order in distribution.

20160713.RC

First version release

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