Intelligent PO Consolidation & Shipment Optimization

Groups purchase requisitions by supplier and truck capacity to recommend consolidated POs.

Core Domain: Supply Chain Management

Supported Digital Worker: Inventory Replenisher (IR)

Overview

Retrieves planned Purchase Requisition lines and proposes compatible consolidation groups based on supplier, receipt-date constraints, and shipment weight. Users can approve or modify the proposed groups before the skill releases the selected PR lines and creates one Purchase Order for each finalized group.

Business Challenge

Buyers manually consolidate requisitions to optimize shipping costs and maximize truck utilization.

How this skill fits into the workflow for:

Inventory Replenisher (IR)

1

Retrieves planned requisitions

2

Groups by supplier and delivery window

3

Calculates shipment weight

4

Applies truck capacity rules

5

Optimizes shipment dates

6

Recommends consolidated PO creation

Decision Logic / HITL

• Consolidate when: same supplier, delivery dates within configured window, truck capacity not exceeded, and no delivery delays introduced

• Planner may approve, reject, or modify recommendations

Business Value

• Reduced freight costs

• Better truck utilization

• Fewer supplier shipments

• Reduced buyer effort

• Improved logistics efficiency

Key Capabilities

• Planned purchase requisition retrieval

• Supplier-based grouping

• Receipt-date constraint validation

• Shipment weight calculation

• Consolidation group recommendations

• User-controlled group modification

• HITL approval before execution

• Sequential PR release and PO creation

• Created PO count reporting

Required IFS Cloud Components & Permission Sets

Component	API Name
PURCH	PurchaseRequisitionLinesHandling.svc
PURCH	CreateRequisitionToPurchaseOrder.svc
INVENT	InventoryPartHandling.svc