Pickface Bin set up
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Warehouse Setup / Pickface Maintenance / Maintain Pickfaces - Maintain Pickfaces [WHS020]
Pickface Replenishment is a process whereby pick face bins are replenished from bulk bins. By default, pick face bins are located on the lower levels of warehouse racking and replenished from the bulk bins, located on the upper levels of the warehouse. This is to make picking on the floor level a more streamlined task for the warehouse staff.
WMS has an automatic pick face calculation module, which continually checks the stock levels within your pick face bins and will generate replenishment reports for users to pick and fill up the pick face locations periodically. This must be configured.
For more information on the Pickface Replen Service, refer to Pickface Replen (CS*)
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Bin Locations
You can have various bin location types, including Bulk locations, Pick face locations, Special Equipment locations, and Staging and Receiving locations.
To start configuring your pick face bin locations, you should have already created your bin locations.
For more information, see Create Single Bins or Create Multiple Bins
Configure Pickface bin locations
Pick face bin locations are configured under the Maintain Pick face module. This module will link stock codes to pick face bins locations and set up the trigger levels for each record. Trigger levels are typically the rules configured to generate the replenishment reports for users to be notified when pick faces must be filled up.
To open the Maintain Pick face module, you can browse from the Main Menu to WMS Menu / Warehouse Setup / Pick face Maintenance / Maintain Pickfaces
To open a bin location, you can either type in the location or select the lookup button to open the Lookup Bin window.
When selecting a bin location, you will also be able to see the Bin Type and the Warehouse in which the bin is located.
Open your chosen pick face bin.
To add stock codes to the specific bin you selected you must go to the Maintain Pickface window.
Here you can add stock codes that live within that specific pick face bin.
Search for the stock code by either typing it in or selecting the lookup icon. This will typically be the stock code(s) that you want to link to this pick face location.
You can then add the Minimum Stock Quantity and the Maximum Stock Quantity. These two quantities are the minimum and maximum quantities of the stock code you would typically want to hold in this specific pick face
Capture the Picking Instructions field. This is a short free format message, which can be displayed on the scanner picking screen to give instructions to the Replenishment user. A typical message would be ‘Pack carefully’ or ‘Flammable’
The Reorder Quantity is the most important field on this screen. The system uses this to identify when a replenishment order should be triggered. Depending on this rule, the system will trigger a replenishment order when the stock in the pick ace bin drops below this level
The Replenishment Quantity field is only used for certain Replenishment rules and is only used when you set your Replenishment options
In the Replenishment Options drop-down, you have 5 options to choose from. The selected option determines the replenishment rule used on this stock code in this pick face. You can set different rules on different stock codes and pick face locations. The 5 options are:
o  1 – Replenish Qty – this rule will wait until the stock on hand for this stock code drops below reorder quantity, and then the software will generate a replenishment order of exactly one standard replenishment quantity as set in the Replenishment Quantity field
o  2 – Fill to Max (incl. Demand) - this rule will combine the bins max level plus sales order and job demand and compare this with the reorder level. If the net requirement drops the stock in the bin below the reorders level, the replenishment system will trigger a replenishment to cover the max plus demand. (The demand is calculated as any open Sales order line that is overdue and lines with a ship date before the WMS system setting "DAYS AHEAD" under the replenishment tab.)
o  3 – By Requirement to Reorder - This rule works the same as rule 2 but only fill the bin to cover demand and up to the Reorder level - not to Max as is the case with rule 2
o  4 – By Requirement to Minimum - This rule is the same as 2 and 3 above but only fills the bin to demand plus Minimum
o  5 – Fill to Max (excl. Demand) - this rule triggers a replenishment when the stock on hand in the bin drops below the reorder quantity and then fills the bin back to the set Max level
In the Source Warehouse, you will select the warehouse from which the Replenishment goods must come
The Unit Picking Threshold field is only used with certain system settings and will not be discussed here. (The setting only applies if the warehouse setting has been configured to add a threshold at the pick face bin level for unit picking against that bin)
Select Apply at the bottom of the Maintain Screen. This will save the record onto that specific bin location and allow the system to generate replenishments against that pick face bin location
On the right-hand side of the Maintain Screen, you can print labels directly from the screen. You can only print one bin’s label or a range of bins. Once all your pick faces are correctly configured, you will need to print the pick face labels for all physical bin locations and apply those labels to the warehouse racks where the pick face bins are located