A warehouse also specifies the release time for waves. For example, a shipment group specified for a customer specifying a particular 'day of the week', because the delivery date requires waves to be released on a specific day. The release schedule considers waves that have been accepted for release.
Shipments that do not have sufficient inventory are removed from a wave. For shipments that require segmented inventory, the automatically checks released work orders for excess inventory that may be available, and creates a work order for the remaining quantity, if necessary, to create segmented inventory to fulfill the shipment.
Based on the demand, the Release Wave searches for inventory at a wave level in specific zones, and creates pick tasks for available inventory.
A buyer organization may choose to use units of measure defined in the buyer's catalog. In such a situation, at the time of picking it is ensured that products are picked in UOMs supported by the buyer organization. To achieve this, UOMs from the buyer's catalog is compared with the enterprise's catalog. The ensures that the UOMs defined in both the catalogs and with same quantities are considered for picking.
The considers over-pack when UOMs defined in the buyer's catalog are not used. In such case, multiple smaller containers needs to be placed into a bigger container. However, this operation is optional and can be defined in the Pack Planning configuration at the node-enterprise level.
The allows the performance of over-pack on specific constraints like containerization, category, and volume. If UOM is not applicable for shipment line's containerization category (item classification for Containerization Category), the considers only those UOMs defined in the enterprise's catalog for picking. However, if over-pack is applicable, UOMs whose volume is less than over-pack volume are not eliminated during the picking process. By doing this, the ensures that the products are not picked in UOMs that require over-pack. The demand in these UOMs are picked as loose inventory, and therefore assists containerization in over-packing.