Create detail handling unitsYou can use the Create Detail Handling Units command on the appropriate menu of the Compose Handling Units (whwmd5130m100) session or the Handling Units (whwmd5130m000) session to create detail handling units for a particular handling unit. In this way, you set up a handling unit structure in which the detail handling units become the child handling units. Note that the total number of items contained in the handling unit structure is not affected, only the number of handling units is increased. For example, a handling unit has 100 items and you want these handling units to be packed in 10 boxes. For this purpose, you specify 10 packaging items of type Box (a user-defined packaging item). The number of packaging items of the handling unit determines the number of detail handling units that LN generates. As a result, for each of the 10 packaging items a handling unit of type Box is created. The 100 items are evenly divided over the 10 packaging items (the number of items remains unchanged). These detail handling units become the child handling unit of the original handling unit, which becomes the parent. For the parent handling unit, you can specify a new packaging item, for example of type Pallet (another user-defined packaging item). The result is a handling unit structure consisting of a pallet and 10 boxes, each box containing 10 items. Procedure To create detail handling units for a particular handling unit, proceed as follows:
Distribution of items among packaging items If you define packaging items for a handling unit, LN proportionally distributes the items contained in the handling unit among the packaging items that you define. For example, if you define 10 packaging items for a handling unit that contains 100 items, each packaging item contains 10 items. If the number of packaging items and items rule out proportional distribution, LN distributes the items as evenly as possible among the packaging items. For example, if you define 10 packaging items of type Box for a handling unit that contains 27 items, LN generates 9 packaging items, each of which will contain three items. If you define 12 packaging items of type Box for a handling unit that contains 45 items, LN generates 11 packaging items, 10 of which contain four items and one containing one item.
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