FUNCTIONLITY OVERVIEW
The Create Bins function is used to create new bin locations within the DATASCOPE WMS software.
DATASCOPE WMS holds a range of bin location types including Bulk Locations, Pick Face locations, Special Equipment Locations, Staging and Receiving locations. As soon as stock is placed into a bin, the bin is created in SYSPRO. Bins can be configured to allow random storage or fixed SKU by bin storage, as well as to limit the number of license plates/Track ID's allowed to be put into the bins. Pick face locations are setup with a dedicated range of products or a single SKU with various reorder management settings that drive back into the replenishment systems. Bins can be created spontaneously by the software to isolate stock that is being picked. The status of bins can be toggled to indicate when bins are temporarily blocked or not required for a temporary period.
Label Format - Up to 5 bin label formats can be pre configured. This is useful for various racking types in the warehouse as well as for bulk and pick face labels that often need to look different and hold additional information.
Warehouse - all bins in DATASCOPE WMS must be linked to a warehouse. you therefore cannot have the same bin location setup in more that one warehouse. the reason for this is to allow the scanning to automatically manage warehouse transfers without having to as the user for the related warehouse code.
Bin Types:
Pick Face
this bin automatically creates a pick face pallet record within the bin with the same name as the bin location code. This pick face pallet record will never become inactive even is stock reduces to zero as it understands that this is a pick face bin and more inventory will be placed in the bin in future. Pick face bin are typically maintained in the pick face setup function of the software where a single or group of stock codes are linked to the pick face bin. Min and Max levels are set and the replenishment system manages movements into the bin. Pick faces are used in most warehouse and facilitate improved order picking productivity. Pick face bins can also be setup for WIP environments to hold stock at a machine.
Bulk Bins
most general bin locations are flagged as bulk bins. These bins are always random storage locations and will allow any stock codes to be placed within them. Typically stock on Track ID's is scanned into and out of these bulk bins.
Reach Truck
These bins are for high rise racking where a forklift cannot operate. These bins are exactly the same as bulk bins but can be used to identify where a reach truck is needed on a picking slip.
Receiving/Picking/Floor Bins
these bins are used for any marshalling type bin location where you do not want the inventory to be available to reservation for any sales orders or jobs. All newly received stock would typically be received into one of these bin locations. Any stock currently in the picking process would reside in this bin type.
Do not print labels - this is set on if you do not want bin labels to print.
Create Track ID Record - there are times where we want to create a range bulk locations where we want each location to have a Track ID recorded linked to the bin location. These are required where a bulk location will not store prepared pallet (which have their own Track ID label) but where the bin has a deck onto which the inventory is placed. So as an example a Purchase receipt my be processed with a Tracking Id that has many stock codes on it. The user then moves through the warehouse moving the inventory off the pallet and onto the racked shelves. The software still expects every bin to have a Track ID record so in a case like this the software will move the inventory off the newly received Track ID and into the permanent bin location Track ID.
Create Check Digit - Although check digits are only used in voice scanning we suggest that you always allow the software to generate a check digit for each bin location and print this on your labels. This means that if you implemented voice picking in the future you would not need to replace all your bin locations.
Picking Sequence - There are three options here - User, FIFO and LIFO. This setting is only applicable to pick face locations. the scanner based picking processes automatically look at this setting when you are picking a lot control product. At the point of picking an item the scanner will A) Ask the user to enter the lot number if this setting is set to USER B) Automatically consume the lots in FIFO sequence or C) Automatically consume the lot in LIFO sequence. This functionality is also available for manual job issues from the scanner.
Area - One can link a bin location to a predefined area code. Areas are used in the software to allow for various order picking splitting. A user can break down a warehouse into a number of areas and then setup the picking process to split orders by area so that we have different picking teams working in different areas.
Zones - One can link a bin to a predefined zone code. Zones are used to drive the optimal placement of inventory during the put away process. For instance we may want all electronic products based in one range of bins and all mechanic products in another range of bins. Setting up zones and linking bins to zones facilitates this.
Number of Track ID's - this setting allows a user to set the maximum number of Track ID's that will fit in this bin location. The field is used for reporting purposes at this point but will be used in future to identify open spaces in bin locations during the put away process.
Bin Volume - This field is used for reporting purposes at this time but will be used in future to calculate theoretical available space for the optimization of put away processes.
Max Mass - this field requires the maximum allowed mass in a bin. It will be used it future during the put away process to never overload a bin location.