In some high-volume warehouses with a lot of common product picking it makes sense to group the picking demand together by SKU first and then to rather pull down all the demand for each SKU to a large bulk picking area on the floor close to the dispatch area. Once all product has been pulled to the floor the actual picking slips are released and each order is picked from the bulk picking zone. How this is managed in DATASCOPE is as follows:
First, the sales orders are grouped and filtered to include only the orders that are required for this wave of picking. Once we have a list of those order lines we group this data by SKU and update this requirement into the Direct Replenishment module within DATASCOPE. Having got the data into the replenishment module we now sort and release replenishment picking slips that optimize the picking of bulk product to the floor picking location. It makes sense to drive each separate wave to a new picking floor location.

Then once all bulk picking has been completed the same wave of order lines is released for picking but from the floor location. Now each order is picked as normal directly off the floor, thus speeding up the pick of each order.

A system setting change can make this possible.

On the Ribbon Bar, browse Settings / Warehouse Settings and select the applicable warehouse from the drop-down. Under the DISPATCH system name, locate the BULK_PICKING setting. Update the value to Y(es). If set to Y(es), the software will show a total QTY required per stock code. Allowing the user to pick more efficiently from bulk/block stacked stock.