Alternate locations

Alternate locations are transportation devices or movable containers used to move inventory from one location to another, or to gather and sort inventory to fill orders. These containers are not in a fixed location and their identity and composition might vary from one use to another.

The most common naming convention of alternate locations used for cart picking is to append the word Cart with three numeric characters. For example, Cart001. The name of the cart should be 7 characters or less. When carts are used for picking, a predefined number of cells or bins are created for the cart.

Based on the number of orders for the wave picked, cart cells are assigned by TWL through procedures used in the RF unit. The cells within the cart contain these three characters:

• 001
• 002
• 003

When you append the alternate location name with the cell or bin numbers, you reach the 10-character maximum for location names.