Task Management enables you to manage warehouse operations such as picking, packing, and receiving. These operations are accomplished by completing a series of tasks. A task is a unit of work that accomplishes a goal. For example, completing an inbound putaway task accomplishes the goal of moving product from the receiving dock to a storage location. Tasks are composed of one or more consecutive steps.
A step is the most granular unit of work as defined in . For example, in order to move product from a receiving dock to a bulk storage location, an inbound putaway task can be composed of a two-step process: First, a pallet jack operator moves the product from a receiving dock to a staging location. Next, a fork lift operator moves the product to the bulk storage location.
Task Management enables you to create dependencies between groups of tasks, so that one group of tasks can be carried out only after completion of another group of tasks. For example, a warehouse may want to complete all of the picking tasks associated with a 10:00 a.m. shipment before beginning the picking tasks associated with a 4:00 p.m. shipment.