Rule 8 - Voice picking / Carton Cubing

Owned by DATASCOPE WMS
Feb 28, 2023
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This Rule is used when running in a voice Environment. It also performs warehouse splitting.
This rule can only be applied in an environment where the sales orders are loaded per warehouse (This will not work if a Sales Order has more than one warehouse).
This Rule affects the auto allocate process as well as the pickslip creation (confirmation) stage.

Auto reserve:

The system checks the packsize (SYSPRO Pan Size).
a) Multiples of packsize – will be allocated from Pickface Source warehouse. The Pickface will be allocated first and then the bulk
b) Less than the packsize – Allocated form the warehouse on the Sales Order warehouse. Reserving will take place in bulk bins first and then pickface bins (to clear any bulk bins first)&edsp;

Confirm:

At Confirmation is where the carton cubing logic comes into effect.
A pickslip will be created for each sales order number and the system will add to the pickslip header.

  1. Packsizes:

a. Create a new carton for every packsize
b. Write the new carton number to each reservation line in the reservation table

  1. Less than Packsize:

a. Sort lines by wearer and then by SKU
b. Open a Large Carton
c. Allocated SKU to that carton
d. Allocate next SKU to carton
e. When the carton is full, open a new carton and load the SKUs
f. Once all SKUs have been loaded for the wearer, reduce the size of the last carton to the smallest size carton or bag that can still fit all of the wearer’s SKUs.

  1. Multi Wearer Cartons:

a. In the case where a wearer’s SKUs can fit into a bag, the software wull not allocate a bag, but will sideline the requirement until the whole order has been processed. All bag allocations will then be grouped and reallocated into large cartons. These cartons will contain bags for multiple wearers.&edsp;
b. This will affect the process at the induction station. 1 carton label will be produced, but instead of just one PackingSlip, a packing slip for each wearer is produced. Each packing slip will be attached to the bag inside the carton for that wearer.

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