Picking options

Your warehouse can be set up as a pick-to-tote warehouse, in which you pick products and put products in reusable totes or carts. Or, your warehouse can be set up as a pick-to-pack warehouse, in which you put picked products directly into a carton or shipping container.

Pick to tote

In a pick-to-tote environment, you can pick products for several orders with one pass of a zone. Do this by placing picked products into intermediate totes or bins that are affixed to a movable cart. In addition, you can estimate the size of the carton required for the order by looking at the contents in the tote. A tote-based picking document, containing information relating to the contents of the tote, automatically prints upon the completion of the picking process. Your administrator can set parameter 7514 to activate this functionality.

Pick-to-pack

In a pick-to-pack environment, you place the products you pick immediately into a shipping container or on a truck pallet. Because products are picked from the shelf and put directly into a shipping container, the packing process is eliminated. The Pick-to-Pack option on the TWL Configuration-Item master record determines if a product is directly packed. Picking parameter 1060, Carton Validation, controls what you pack in a single carton. Your administrator can set parameter 7011 to notify you when the order is fully packed.

Quick pack

Parameter 1055, Quick Pack, determines if your warehouse uses the Quick pack option, and you pack all the products from a tote into one carton without scanning each item. Ensure that the Quick Pack Allowed option is selected in the RF Security section of TWL Administration-RF Employee Setup for each RF employee record to enable this feature. This option is selected by default.

Parameter 1051, Packing Option, determines the scanning order and packing configuration, and you have these options:

  • Carton from Totes: This option allows the packer to quickly pack a carton from a tote. The packer will be asked to scan a carton and then the tote.
  • Tote to Cartons: This option allows the packer to quickly pack many cartons from one tote. This feature should be used for warehouses which pick large orders to one tote identifier or one order to a tote. The packer will be asked to scan a tote and then scan the cartons the tote contents will be packed in.
  • Quick Scan: The Quick Scan option is currently the same as the Tote to Cartons option.