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WMS Pick Release Overview
WMS Pick Release Overview
There is no required
Select setup for this step after
Delivery Lines the organization and
to Release shipping parameters
are set. There is
required run time data
entry
User Accepts
Tasks This is a required step
with required setup
I pick released but I got no
tasks available
You selected auto pick
confirm when pick releasing.
Double click here to go to
Release Rule setup
Pick Selection Failed. Double
Click Here to go to Release
Rule Setup Yes
Go to Shipping
What is the
Transactions form Allocation Failed. Double Click
delivery line Backordered
and get Delivery Here to go to Allocation Setup
status?
Line Status
Released to Warehouse
Yes
Dispatched
What this Does Select Delivery Lines (Delivery Details) to be released for
picking to the warehouse
The delivery line status will be "Ready for Release"
when queried in the Shipping Transactions form. If the
How to Tell if this failed line is "Staged", release worked but you either set auto
pick confirm to yes or the item was non reservable (see
setup)
Create a Release Rule with the Selection Criteria that would select
the appropriate delivery line(s). (optional).
How to Set this Up Navigate
(Desktop Warehouse Manager Responsibility)
Setup->Warehouse Configuration->Rules->Pick Wave->Release
View the Setup Rules
User Interfaces 1. Give the rule a name
2. Enter the selection criteria required to select the delivery lines
3. If you are using WMS to pick with tasks, set auto allocate to
yes and auto pick confirm to No
4. Save
5. In Organization items form, make sure the item is transactable
and reservable
Run-time Steps Release Pick Waves (aka Pick release)
Navigate
(Desktop Warehouse Manager Responsibility)
View the
Outbound->Release Pick Waves
Runtime User 1. If you set up a Release rule, enter the rule name in the release
Interfaces rule field
else
1. Enter selection criteria that will select the delivery lines
Bare Minimum setup Proceed with Run time steps and enter selection criteria in the Pick
(bypass Setup steps) release form. Release rules do not have to be set up.
If the Release Process was successful in selecting lines to be released, after the pick release request
ends, the delivery lines will be in status "Released to Warehouse", or Backordered"
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Process
Flow
Allocation
How to Tell if this failed The delivery line status will be "Backordered" when
queried in the Shipping Transactions form
How to Set this Up 1. Set up the strategy search order for the organization for picking.
Make sure source organization is on the search order.
2. Create a picking rule that will select material for allocation. Make
sure it is not so restrictive that it will never find acceptable material.
3. Assign the rule to a strategy.
View the Create 4. Assign the strategy to a business object on the delivery line. if this
Pick Rule Page is the first picking strategy being created, assign it to the Source
Organization on the delivery line.
4. Set up the strategy search order for the organization for put away.
Make sure source organization is on the search order.
5. Create a put away rule that will select material for allocation.
Make sure it is not so restrictive that it will never find acceptable
material.
6. Assign the rule to a strategy.
7. Assign the strategy to a business object on the delivery line. If
there is already a put away strategy assigned to the organization,
make sure that the last rule in that strategy has minimal restrictions so
that they system will let you "put away" an item to a staging lane.
If the Allocation Process was successful, after the pick release request ends, the delivery lines will be
in status "Released to Warehouse"
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Process
Page
Pick Methodology Grouping (aka Pick Slip Grouping)
Groups allocations (now tasks) according to pick methodology
What this Does so that users are dispatched tasks in groups (by sales order,
subinventory etc.). This grouping will override task/resource
setups. So once someone is given a task in a given group,
they will get all tasks in that group regardless of qualifications.
Run-time Steps If you have saved the pick slip grouping rule on the release rule or the
shipping parameters, you will not have to enter it at pick release.
Otherwise, you will have to enter the value when you Pick release
Bare Minimum setup There is no getting around this setup step. You must have at least
one pick slip grouping rule and it is a required field on the Shipping
(bypass Setup steps) Parameters form.
If the Pick Slip Grouping was successful, each line in mtl_material_transactions_temp will have a
pick_slip_number and each task that will be grouped together will have the same pick_slip_number
value
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Process
Flow
Cartonization
Suggests packed configurations for material to be picked. If it
is used, the user will see not only the task to pick material but
What this Does
the LPN and container item into which they need to pick. Is
used in consolidation while picking for a "pick and pass" flow.
When the user accepts a task, there will be no To LPN
How to Tell if this failed and Container item field at the bottom of the page.
1. Create cartonization categories for the items and the containers.
How to Set this Up These are categories in the seeded Container Items and Contained
Items category sets. You will need one category in each set. The
ordered items need to be assigned to the contained item category
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and the container items need to be assigned to the category in the
Cartonization Container Item set.
Setup Page 2. Assign dimensions and weights to the ordered item
3. Assign volume and weight capacity to the container items
4. In the organization parameters form, set the cartonization enabled
parameter to enabled or at subinventory level
5. If cartonization is enabled at subinventory level, enable it in the
subinventories from which picked material must be cartonized.
6. For best results, you should set up LPN labels to print at pick
release so that users can scan the lpn in the pick by label page to be
automatically given the tasks that need to be picked into the LPN.
Run-time Steps None. this will happen automatically if you set up cartonization
correctly.
Bare Minimum setup This is an optional feature. If you don't want cartonization, you don't
(bypass Setup steps) need to use it. If you do want cartonization, you can also set up the
container-item relationships in the Shipping Container Load
relationships form. Cartonization would still have to be enabled at the
organization or subinventory level but the data in the Shipping form
would replace the category assignments step.
If the Cartonization was successful, the picker would see not only the task details but also the To LPN
defaulted and the container item field filled out when they go to Accept Next Task
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Process
Flow
Task Type Assignment
Query the task in the control board. The user task type
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field will be blank if no task type was assigned.
How to Set this Up 1. Create a task type (bom standard operations) for each type of
picking task that requires a different combination of people skills or
equipment.
Navigate in Warehouse Manager desktop responsibility
Setup->Warehouse Configuration->Tasks->Standard Task Types
Enter a code, enter a department. You must enter a task type (in this
View Task
case Pick)!
Type Setup
2. Set up task type assignment rules to identify when each pick task
is of that task type.
Navigate
Setup->Warehouse Configuration->Rules->Warehouse execution-
>Rules
3. Assign a default task type to the organization so that even if all
rules fail to return a type some default task type is assigned to each
picking task so that someone can do the work
Navigate (from Warehouse manager desktop)
Setup->Warehouse Configuration->Warehouses->Warehouse
Parameters
in the warehouse tab, fill in a value for default picking task type.
Run-time Steps None. this will happen automatically if you set up task type
assignment rules correctly.
Bare Minimum setup
(bypass Setup steps) If you only have one task type and all users in the warehouse are
capable of performing that task, you only need to create one task
View Bare
Minimum
type, assign it to a department and make that task the default picking
Setup Form task type for the organization on the Warehouse Parameters form.
If the Task type assignment was successful, when you query the task in the control board, there will
be a value in the user task type field.
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Process Flow
Task Merge
How to Tell if this failed User will receive individual tasks, each for the delivery
line qty instead of one task with the sum of the delivery
line quantities.
How to Set this Up There are 2 ways to do this: at the pick slip grouping rule level or at
the item level.
To do this at the item level:
1. Go to the organization items form and check the bulk picked
View Bulk checkbox in the inventory tab for those items for which tasks can be
Picking Setup
merged. These items will be bulk picked regardless of the pick slip
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grouping rule used at pick release.
To do this at the pick methodology level
1. Go to the pick slip grouping rule form, create a pick slip grouping
rule that uses the Bulk Pick methodology. This will group orders into
the same pick slip that have the same item/revision/subinventory/
locator.
Run-time Steps None. Tasks will automatically be merged if you have enabled bulk
picking.
Bare Minimum setup You must go through the setup in order to bulk pick. Bulk picking is
(bypass Setup steps) not required. You can pick without this feature.
If the Task Merge was successful, when you accept tasks you will see one task per item/subinventory/
locator combination.
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Process
Flow
Task Split
What this Does Splits tasks that are too large to be completed by the smallest
equipment capable of performing the task. This is an optional
step. If equipment is not used, it does not have to be done.
Query the task in the control board. If you see one task
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that is too large for the equipment, they did not split.
How to Set this Up 1. Create equipment items for the equipment you use. For each
item, specify the weight and volume capacity on the item.
2. Create equipment resources for each group of equipment items
View Task
that can fulfill a different task type (eg pallet jacks vs carts). In the
Splitting Setup resources form click the equipment button and enter the items
Pages created in step 1 that are of that equipment type.
navigate in warehouse manager desktop responsibility
setup->warehouse configuration->resources->resources
2. Assign the resources to the department used for warehouse
picking.
Navigate (from Warehouse manager desktop)
Setup->Warehouse Configuration->Resources->Departments
3. Assign the resources to the task types that those resources can
fulfill
Navigate (from warehouse manager desktop)
Setup->Warehouse configuration->Tasks->Standard Task types
Query the task type, click the resources button and enter the
equipment resource that can perform that task.
Run-time Steps None. Tasks will automatically be split if you have setup equipment
with capacities to perform the tasks.
Bare Minimum setup You must go through the setup in order to split tasks. Task Splitting is
(bypass Setup steps) not required. You can pick without this feature.
If the Task Split was successful, when you accept tasks you will see tasks divided into workable
quantities.
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Process
Flow
Task Dispatch
How to Set this Up 1. Setup task types as described on the Task Type assignment page.
2. Setup employee skill sets. In general you will need one per task
type unless you have other equipment requirements. In the on this
page, click the employee button and enter the employees who have
this skill set.
View the Task Navigate in warehouse manager desktop
Dispatch Setup Setup->Warehouse Configuration->Resources->Resources
Forms 3. Assign the resources to the department to which the tasks are
assigned.
navigate in warehouse manager desktop
setup->warehouse configuration->resources->departments
4. Query each picking task, click the resources button and indicate
the employee resource (human skill set) who can perform the task.
Navigate (in warehouse manager desktop)
setup-.warehouse configuration->tasks->standard task types
Run-time Steps None. Tasks will automatically be split if you have setup equipment
with capacities to perform the tasks.
Bare Minimum setup You must have at least one task type and one resource defined for
(bypass Setup steps) picking to take place. You can go through the bare minimum setup
for task types, then create a single resource (type human), assign all
picker employees to that resource, assign the resource to the
department and then assign the resource to the task type.
If the Task Dispatch was successful, when you click accept next task, or enter the task id for manual
pick or the LPN for pick by label you will be taken to the task page.
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Process
Flow
Pick Release Rule
Setup: Order Tab
Give your rule a name. This
will be the name that people These are the dates
use every time they wish to within which users will
apply this rule in pick release be able to use this rule.
so make the rule name easy If you want to keep
for others to understand. using it. Don't fill in the
end date.
Pick Release is a
Return to Pick
concurrent request.
Release
Note that this looks You can set up the
Selection
exacly like the Setup request to run at
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form. If you don't build regular intervals based
a rule at the outset, you on the release rule you
will essentially build a created in the setup
new rule with every steps.
pick release.
Create Pick Rule
Go to Strategy
Creation Page
Create Pick Strategy
Continue to
Create a Strategy
Search Order
Create Strategy Search
Order for Picking
Note: If your put away strategies are all very specific (eg put the item in the item
location in the Forward Pick area), they will cause pick release to backorder. Make
sure you have an unrestricted rule at the end of your put away strategies or create a
new put away strategy with an empty rule and assign it to the transaction types Sales
Order Pick and Internal Order Pick so that pick release will run uninterrupted.
Go to Strategy
Assignments
Create Strategy
Assignment for Picking
Here, you must assign the strategy to the business object that has
those requirements. For the most generic assignment that can be
used in all pick release runs, assign the strategy to your
organization as shown here.
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Allocation Flow
Page
Bare Minimum Setup
for Allocation
Return to Pick
Methodology
Page
Cartonization Setup
Continue to
Cartonization
Category
Setup
Cartonization Setup
Continue to
Cartonization
Item Setup
Cartonization Item
Setup
Return to
Cartonization
Page
Department Setup
Continue to
Create Task
Types
Create Task Types
Continue to
Create Task Type
Assignment
Rules
Create Task Type
Assignment Rules
Return to
Task Type
Page
Minimum Setup for Task Type
Assignment
Return To
Task Type
Setup Page
Bulk Picking Setup
In order to bulk pick, set the bulk picked attribute on the item or
create a pick slip grouping rule using the "Bulk Pick" Pick
methodology
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Task Merging
Page
Task Splitting Setup: Creating
Equipment Item
Continue to
Associate this
Item to an
Equipment
Resource
Equipment Resource Setup
Create an equipment resource for the item created in the previous step. Then click the
Equipment button and enter your item created in the last step to tie the item to the resource.
Continue to the
Equipment
Task Setup
Page
Equipment Task Association
Query the Task Type you've created where the tasks need Return to
to be split to fit the equipment. Click the Operation Task Splitting
Resources button and enter the equipment resource you Page
created in the last step. None of the other fields on this
page matter to WMS execution
Employee Setup
In Order to pick, all users must be set up as employees in Oracle HR. Create an employee for each of
your users. Users cannot share the same employee.
Continue to
Associate the
Employee to a
skill Set
Employee Resource Setup
Continue to
Associate this
Resource to a
Department
Department Resource Setup
Continue to
Resource Task
Type
Association
Resource - Task Type
Association
Return to
Task Dispatch
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