Lot Translate

Lot translate enables you to either change the name of an existing lot or convert one product to another. This is one of the key requirements in life science industry where one product may get translated into another due to various chemical changes. You can change the lot name, item, revision, or sub-inventory of an existing lot and move it to another assembly. You cannot translate a lot, if reservations exist. 

This functionality can let you perform the following actions with lot translate :

•  Update the lot name to an existing lot name
•  Update the lot to a new lot
•  Update the item to a new item and a new lot
•  Update the item and lot to an existing item and lot

Pre-Requisites :

• Organization should be WMS Enabled
• Access to Mobile Supply Chain Application (MSCA) as Lot Translate cannot be performed from forms application
• 'Lot Translate' checkbox should be enabled in Items form as shown below

Navigate to Whse Mgmt(R) > Warehousing > Lot Transactions > Translate

Select the Organization as 'W1' which is WMS Enabled Organization. Enter the Lot, Item, Sub-inventory and locator detail for which you want to do 'Lot Translate'

Click on 'Save/Result' button and give the new detail to which this lot need to be translated. The system will give you an option to change Item/Lot/Sub/Loc detail as per your requirement. You are allowed to change either all of them or any of them as per your need as shown below. I modified the Lot and sub/loc detail but retained the same item.

Click on 'Done' button to complete the transaction.

Navigate to Inventory (R) >  On-hand, Availability > Lots and search for New Lot Number. 

You can see the Lot Genealogy of the resultant lot without losing its history. 

If your organization is not a WMS Enabled org, this functionality is not available and you end up in doing miscellaneous issue of old lot and receive the quantity into a new lot. The drawback with this approach is, you miss the relationship between the original lot and the new lot which is a key feature in many industries.