Create detail handling units
You can use the 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.
ProcedureTo create detail handling units for a particular handling unit, proceed as follows:
- In the Compose Handling Units (whwmd5130m100) session, the Handling Units (whwmd5130m000) session, or the Handling Unit Tree, select the handling unit for which you want to create detail handling units.
- Start the Handling Units (whwmd5130m000) details session for the selected handling unit. To
start the Handling Units (whwmd5130m000) details session for the selected handling unit,
proceed as follows:
- In the Compose Handling Units (whwmd5130m100) session or the Handling Units (whwmd5130m000) session, double-click the selected handling unit.
- In the Handling Unit Tree, right-click the selected handling unit and click Details from the context menu.
- On the Quantity/Weight tab of the Handling Units (whwmd5130m000) session, select the required packaging item, of type Box, for example, and enter the required number of packaging items.
- Save the data and exit the Handling Units (whwmd5130m000) session.
- Back in the Compose Handling Units (whwmd5130m100) session, the Handling Unit Tree or the Handling Units (whwmd5130m000) session, highlight the handling unit and click on the appropriate menu. As a result, a message appears informing you that detail handling units have been created.
- To remove detail handling units, highlight the handling unit and, on the appropriate menu, click . To use the previous example, if you created 10 boxes containing 10 items each, the boxes are removed and one handling unit (the pallet, the former parent) remains containing 100 items.
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.