Move orders are requests for the movement of material within a single organization. They allow planners and facility managers to request the movement of material within a warehouse or facility for purposes like replenishment, material storage relocations, and quality handling. You can generate move orders either manually or automatically depending on the source type you use.

Note: Move orders are restricted to transactions within an organization. If you are transferring material between organizations you must use the internal requisition process.

Managed Material Flow in a Facility:
Move orders allow you to distinguish between inventory management processes and the actual material transaction process. This provides for the following:

Move Order Requisitions
A move order requisition is a manually generated request for a move order. It is available for subinventory transfers and account transfers. Once a requisition has been approved, it becomes a move order. These requests can optionally go through a workflow-based approval process before they become move orders ready to be sourced and transacted.

Replenishment Move Orders
You can automatically create pre-approved move orders using the following planning and replenishment functions. These processes generate move orders if the material is sourced from another inventory location within the organization.
Min-Max Planning:
Replenishment Counting
Kanban Replenishment

Pick Wave Move Orders
Pick wave move orders are pre-approved requests for sub inventory transfers to bring material from a source location in the warehouse to a staging sub inventory. These move orders are generated automatically by the Oracle Shipping Execution pick release process.

Manufacturing Component Pick
Created my component pick release in WIP

Workflow for Move Order Approval Process:
If you require planner approval for move order requisitions, you can use the move order approval process, which forwards move order lines to the designated item planner for approval. Oracle Inventory manages the approval process through Oracle Workflow.

To govern the move order approval process, you set two inventory organization parameters: Move Order Timeout Period and Move Order Timeout Action. The Move Order Timeout Period attribute determines the number of days the order can wait for approval. After one time out period, if the recipient has not approved or rejected the order, a reminder notice is sent. After a second time out period, the order is automatically approved or rejected, depending on the Move Order Timeout Action attribute you set. Upon approval, additional notifications can be sent to specified individuals.

The item planner is an item attribute. If no planner is specified on the item, the requisition line will be automatically approved.
Once the order line is approved, notices are sent to a notification list that is attached to the source and destination sub inventories to let the sub inventory planners know that material will be moved to or from their areas.
Note: Replenishment and pick wave move orders are pre-approved

Express Pick Release
Customers who use Oracle Inventory primarily for financial purposes as opposed to operational purposes can user express pick release to enhance pick release performance.
The overall process for this method is as follows:
1. Create detailed reservations.
2. Pick release order.
3. Populate reservations in shipping delivery details.
4. Ship confirm order.
Express pick release makes the following assumptions:
• There are no locators in the warehouse.
• The same subinventory is used for storing and staging shipped material.
• Detail level reservations are created before you run pick release, or during order or after order import.
• For plain and serial controlled items, the reservation must specify the subinventory.
• For lot-controlled items, the reservation must specify the subinventory and lot number.
• For revision controlled items, the reservation must specify the revision.
If the above conditions are met, the logic in pick release is set to bypass creating of move order lines, quantity tree and reservations, and pick confirm.