An EDI 852 Product Activity Report shares information about the activity of items in your Product file with an EDI vendor who manages your inventory. The vendor uses this information to determine when and how much of each item to replenish. In return, the vendor sends you an 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment (Inbound), from which your system creates an open purchase order.
After you determine and flag the products a vendor will manage, run the 852 to create a base report and repository of data for all the products the vendor manages. After you create the initial repository of data, you can send 852s that only report on products with activity.
Set the Include 'Catalog' Items field on the EDI Add'l Doc Info screen for outbound 852s to Y to accumulate catalog index items as well as primary index items for the report.
In a central warehouse, the system does not roll order point and line point information or minimum/maximum information for all branches in the network for 852 reports. The system only pulls this information from the parent branch. In a central warehouse and distributive warehouse, only the system reports the calculated values for minimum only, order point, and line point int the OP/OQ parameters and pass the minimum only in the QL. The QM should be zero (0).
In a central purchasing warehouse, if the branches have no minimum/maximum/only values set, the system reports the summed information of the OP/LP as OP/OQ and QL/QM should be zero (0). If there is a combination of these values, the system sums up the information for all of these and reports it as OP/OQ, but the QL/QM should still be zero (0). If there is only minimum/maximum/only values, then the system sums up and reports the information as QL/QM and the OP/OQ should be zero (0).
See Also:
Vendor Managed Inventory Overview
Flagging Products as Vendor Managed Inventory