This pickface pick face maintenance control module is mainly used, by a System Administrator or Warehouses Warehouse Manager, to manage the detail of the pickface pick face warehouse.

The module takes a defined period of detailed Sales data (off the SYSPRO Sales Order Detail table) to determine the demand per stock code.

• Start by setting the Report Filters

  • Select the pickface pick face Warehouse from the drop-down that must be analyzed

  • Select the From Ship Date and the To Ship Date to identify the data set that should be used to calculate the pickface pick face max, reorder and min levels.

• Capture the Required Values

SPECIAL FEATURES

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TECHNICAL

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SYSPRO REQUIREMENTS & Business objects used

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• • Enter the number of days of stock holding to set

• • for the maximum level in each pick face in the Max holding field. This takes the average

• • sale volume of each product per week and then

• • weight it heavily in favor of the peak weeks to attempt to cover the highest peak sales weeks.

• • This is

• • import as the

• • Max should not be set to the highest sales week as this may be a complete once off sale.

• • The Max should be a weighed value to cover most peak weeks.

• • Enter the % of Max in the Reorder (% of Max)

• • field to set as the reorder level. This is the a percentage value of the max value to be set as the reorder point for this

• • product.

  • Enter the % of Max in the Min (% of Max)

• • field to set as the Minimum Level. This is

• • the percentage value of the max value to be set as the minimum stock level for this product.

• Select the Refresh icon to load the data grid

• The data is

• color coded to better identify

• which lines must be addressed.

• The following colors are shown

• with their meanings:

  • Tan Background

• • -

• • these fields are all calculated values based on the date ranges set by the user

• • Black

• • text -

• • lines in black text

• • indicate that these products do not require any action

  • Blue text - lines in blue text indicate that the new

• • Min and

• • Max and

• • Reorder values do not match with the current settings in the Pick

• • face setup. The

• • Update Bin

• • button, in the bottom right-hand corner, must be selected to force an update to these fields in

• • the Pick

• • face setup. Note that these lines must have the tick box selected under the Select column.

  • Green text - lines in green text show stock codes that have been sold from this warehouse, but have no pick face at all.

• • A pick face must be allocated to these products. For more information, refer to the Maintain Pick face module.

  • Red text - lines in red text show that the Max level we have set is to large for the bin. The software does this by taking the

• • Max value and multiply it with the product volume in SYSPRO, and then compares this to the Bin location volume as set in the Bin Maintenance

• • module.

• • Purple

• • text -

• • lines

• • in purple text shows that the

• • Max currently set against the pick face setup, is less

• • than, at least, one of the peak weeks.

• • It means that in weeks the Max you have set, would not cover that weeks demand.

• • To see the week’s data right-click on the line and

• • select Weekly Demand

• • . Ideally, your

• • Max should be able to cover most of the peak weeks. In these cases

• • , your user will need to make a call if the

• • Max should

• • be increased.

• • Right-click on the line and

• • update the

• • Max to the new manually entered value. This process

• • will adjust the

• • Reorder and

• • Min levels according to the values set at the top of the screen under Required Values.

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SPECIAL FEATURES

• An automatic update of Pick face Max, Reorder and Min stock levels in Pick Face data will happen

• If you scroll to the right of the data grid you will notice the Area and Zones codes for the pick faces. Sort this field to quickly see if there’s fast moving products in a slow moving

• Area or Zone. 

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SYSPRO

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