Enhancements

This section describes the enhancements that are available in the February 2022 production update.

Cherry picking replenishment

This enhancement includes these improvements to cherry picking replenishment:

  • Short pick a task and recreate a replenishment from another location, which ensures that the intended quantity of product to be replenished to a location is realized
  • Automatically taken to the Move screen during the Cherry Pick Multiple process instead of having to click F2
  • Link replenishment strategy to the cherry pick replenishment and the cherry pick multiple processes

User directed lot swapping during picking

During the picking process, picking is often disrupted when you, as the picker, have the inventory to pick, but the inventory is in a different lot than the one allocated for the pick. With the lot swapping functionality, you can continue the picking process by choosing to swap the inventory by lot, LPN, or lot attribute.

You can use user directed lot swapping with these pick options:

  • Assignment picking
  • Task directed picking
  • Cluster picking, all options

These fields and values have been added to support the lot swapping functionality:

  • User Directed By Lot: This value has been added to the Default Lot Swapping field list on the Task tab of the Owner detail page and the Lot Swapping Allowed field on the Outbound tab of the Item detail page
  • User Directed by LPN: This value has been added to the Default Lot Swapping field list on the Task tab of the Owner detail page and the Lot Swapping Allowed field on the Outbound tab of the Item detail page
  • User Directed by Lot Attribute: This value has been added to the Default Lot Swapping field list on the Task tab of the Owner detail page and the Lot Swapping Allowed field on the Outbound tab of the Item detail page
  • RF Lot Attribute Validation: This field has been added to theOutbound tab of the Item detail page
  • LOTSWAPPINGLOGS system setting: This option has been added to the On/Off tab of the System Settings page

You cannot use lot swapping for shipment order with hold allocation and pick details that are in-process.

If a lot cannot be found or fails the validations, then the swap cannot be performed and you will receive an error message. If inventory is found, then the swap is completed by updating the pick details, task details, and inventory records. If enough inventory is not found for the swap, then the pick details are split into a pick detail for the quantity of the swapped inventory and a pick detail for the remaining quantity of the original inventory.

Enhanced production order consolidation and allocation

Before this enhancement, a WMS limitation waving production orders with a defined Stage Location in the Shipment header existed. Waving Production Orders representing only a Single Stage Location would correctly consolidate inventory to speedline locations. With this enhancement waving multiple Production Orders representing multiple unique Stage Locations will correctly consolidate inventory to the correct speedline location.

Additionally, this enhancement corrects the way speedline locations are assigned when using the Production Staging Location field at the Shipment detail. Before the enhancement WMS limited selection of Production Staging Location to Pick locations only. This configuration was intended for Production Orders so the enhancement corrected the selection to Speed Pick locations only.

Packing method pass-thru

With this enhancement, data from the ERP is stored as it relates to Shipment Orders and the data is sent back to the ERP through the SyncShipment BOD. This data is used by the ERP to determine how the order will be processed.

Change assignment picking

The assignment picking sequence has been changed so that picks are completed first by wave, and then by assignment number. This enhancement keeps a picker in the same wave to complete all the assignments before moving on.

Opportunistic crossdock

The new option, No Inventory = 3, has been added to the OPPORTUNISTICCROSSDOCK system setting under Values. When you use No Inventory = 3, Opportunistic Crossdock only runs when there is zero inventory in the system for an item that is flagged to allow Opportunistic Crossdock.