TWL departments and shifts
An important part of warehouse management is assigning a shift and department to RF employees. A department is a functional group of employees that perform similar tasks. Within a warehouse, you might have a receiving department, a picking department, and a shipping department. At least one department must be set up, because a department is required for the RF employee master record.
A shift is a block of time, usually in 8-hour increments, an employee is scheduled to work.
If your warehouse assembles prebuilt kits, then you must create a department record for a work center. Specify these locations:
- Staging location as a transfer point for moving stock into the work center
- Stage-out location for finished kits going back into the warehouse
- Picking location for allocated kits to fill orders
When you create your work center department, a location with a prefix of DT, plus the number you assigned to the department, is created. For example, DT4.
After the department is defined, specify the work center department number on the TWL Administration-RF Employee master record so operators can access the RF menu. In Product Warehouse Product Setup, you must specify the Kit Build Department in the WL Setup view.
See Location and TWL item records.
By assigning departments and shifts, you can measure performance by printing productivity reports.