CONSIGNED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

A system is provided that manages consigned inventory. The system consumes consigned inventory items. The system further generates a consumption advice in response to the consumption of the consigned inventory items, where the consumption advice references a consignment agreement, a consignment order and a receipt. The system further communicates the consumption advice to a supplier. The consumption advice includes at least one of: a consumption advice number; a business unit; an inventory organization; a supplier; a supplier site; a start date; or an end date. The consumption advice includes one or more consumption advice lines, and each consumption advice line includes one or more consumption transactions.

主权项

1. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to manage consigned inventory, the managing comprising:
consuming at least one consigned inventory item; generating a data model object that represents a consumption advice in response to the consumption of the at least one consigned inventory item, wherein the data model object that represents the consumption advice references a consignment agreement, a consignment order and a receipt; storing the data model object that represents the consumption advice within one or more database columns of one or more database tables; and communicating the consumption advice to a supplier, wherein the communicating further comprises transmitting the data model object that represents the consumption advice to the supplier; wherein the consumption advice comprises at least one of: a consumption advice number; a business unit; an inventory organization; a supplier; a supplier site; a start date; or an end date; wherein the consumption advice comprises one or more consumption advice lines; and wherein a consumption advice line comprises a consumption transaction.