Picking tasks are carried out by RF Mobile Terminal, batch sheet or by interfacing with a MHE.
During the pick process, appropriate instructions for pick and pack are provided to the user. Additional attributes such as serial numbers can be captured during the picking process. Pick strategy determines the method of pick for a SKU on the shipment. Pick strategies including "pick and sort", "sort while pick", "order pick", "pick and pass" and "zone based pick" are supported. For small products that are not received in standard cases, the allows over-picking if the excess quantity picked does not exceed preset over-ship limits.
Users are assigned to specific task types and equipment associated with their skill set. The controls provided to a supervisor allow a shipment to be restricted to specific users and to the number of users who can work on the task. This allows a warehouse to leverage assets appropriately. For example, a warehouse where TL shipments are restricted to one or two users provides batch pick to a larger group of users.
The always attempts to consolidate outbound pick tasks before suggesting to the user.
Ability is provided to a picker to record exceptions such as short picks at a location.
The lets you pick, pack and ship more than the shipment line quantity, as long as the quantity picked is within the set tolerance limit.
Thus you can pick and pack more than the shipment line quantity. Over picking is allowed as long as the quantity picked (sum of the shipment line quantity and the over ship quantity) is within the set tolerance limit.
At the end of the picking process, the inventory is moved through drop-off locations to the next point in the route. After all pick tasks are completed for a wave, the wave status is appropriately updated.
Task management automatically assigns the next task to the picker based on business process configuration and priorities at a task type level. In the event, that a specific shipment requires to be moved to a higher priority, a supervisor uses the console to modify the priority manually. A user is assigned the task based on the priority. This reduces the need for a supervisor to call out or walk up to a user to indicate which shipment or task they need to work on.