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Warehouse Management Rules Engine

Nitesh Arora
Director, Product Management
 Agenda

 Objectives
 Product Features
 Key Takeaways

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 Objectives
Rules Engine
Capabilities
• The Rules Engine acts as a repository for
restrictions and business policies to:
• Enable directed picking
• Enable directed put away
• Assign tasks to a resource with the
appropriate training and equipment
• Assign cost groups to material
• Ensure labeling compliance
• Determine appropriate operation plan for
consolidation
• Configure cross-dock criteria
• Determine cartonization criteria

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 Objectives
Rules Engine

Capabilities

• Extensible
• WMS_RE_Custom_PUB – For customer
specific algorithms
• PL/SQL – For flexibility with unique
business requirements

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 Agenda

 Objectives
 Product Features
 Key Takeaways

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 Product Features
Terminology
 Rules – One or more restrictions that must
be fulfilled to satisfy a business requirement
 Strategy – Ordered sequence of rules that
the system selects in a sequence with or
without partial success
 Rules Workbench – Enables assignment of
strategies, rules, and cost group values
directly to any number of objects in an
assignment matrix.

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 Product Features
Rules

Business Object Operator Instance of the

business object

Constant
Item Item Number = DRUM
Character

Attributes of the Object

business object

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 Product Features
Strategy Start

Rule : Refrigerate, Seq : 010

Putaway Into An Empty Refrigerated Location

Is Putaway
Complete?

No
Rule : Refrigerate, Seq : 010
Putaway Into An Empty Refrigerated Location
Yes

No Is Putaway Yes
Unable To Putaway End
Complete?

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 Product Features
Rules Workbench

Business Object

ITEM
Rule/Strategy =
CATEGORY FG

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 Product Features
Model Business Process

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 Product Features
Pick Rules Restrictions

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 Product Features
Pick Rules Sort

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 Product Features
Pick Rules Consistency

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 Product Features
Pick Rules – Terminology
 Allocation Modes
– Entire LPN – the whole LPN must be
allocated, no partials allowed
– LPN and Loose – both packed and unpacked
material can be allocated
– No LPN – No specific LPN is allocated, any
suitable LPN in the locator can be chosen at
pick time
– Strict Pick UOM – Allocation will only be in
whole multiples of the Pick UOM

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 Product Features
Pick Strategy Definition

Rules Engine
• Evaluates in ascending (from low to
high) sequence order
• Evaluation continues until all quantity
has been allocated or no more rules
remain
• The Partial Success setting defines
whether or not all of the Qty must
allocated by one rule
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 Product Features
Rules Workbench

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 Product Features
Putaway Rules

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 Product Features
Cost-Group Rules

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 Product Features
Label Format Rules

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 Product Features
Task Type Assignment Rules

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 Product Features
Operation Plan Rules

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 Product Features
Operation Plan Rules

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 Product Features
Operation Plan Rules

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 Product Features
Operation Plan Rules

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 Product Features
Complex Putaway Rule – Customer-Specific Algorithm

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 Product Features
Complex Putaway Rule

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 Product Features
Complex Putaway Rule

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 Product Features
Complex Putaway Rule

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 Product Features
Complex Putaway Rule

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 Product Features
Complex Putaway Rule

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 Product Features
Complex Putaway Rule

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 Product Features
Complex Putaway Rule

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 Product Features
Complex Putaway Rule

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 Product Features
Planned Cross Dock Rule Definition

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 Product Features
Planned Cross Dock Rule Definition

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 Product Features
WMS Rules Workbench – Planned Cross Dock

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 Product Features
Opportunistic Cross Dock Rule Definition

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 Product Features
Opportunistic Cross Dock Rule Definition

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 Product Features
WMS Rules Workbench – Opportunistic Cross Dock

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 Product Features
WMS Rules Workbench – Cartonization

Cartonization Methods
• Single Item – uses Item/Container relationship to
pack and determine # and type of containers
• Mixed Item – uses Item Categories (Container
Item and Contained Item) to pack and determine #
and type of containers
• Pick Sip – generates one LPN per Pick Slip as
specified by Pick Slip Grouping Rules
• Customer Algorithm – a code stub that allows
custom logic to be added

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 Product Features
WMS Rule Simulation

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 Product Features
WMS Rule Simulation

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 Product Features
WMS Rule Simulation

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 Product Features
WMS Rule Simulation

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 Product Features
WMS Rule Simulation

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 Product Features
WMS Rule Simulation

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 Product Features
WMS Rule Simulation

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 Product Features
WMS Rule Simulation

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 Product Features
WMS Rules Execution Trace

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 Product Features
WMS Rules Execution Trace

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 Product Features
WMS Rules Execution Trace

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 Product Features
WMS Rules Execution Trace

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 Agenda

 Objectives
 Product Features
 Key Takeaways

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 Key Takeaways
 Rules Engine:
– Enables business process orchestration
– Enable business users to model:
 Pick
 Putaway
 Task Type Assignment
 Cost Groups
 Labeling
 Operation Plans
 Cross-Docking
 Cartonization
– Simulation and trace capabilities
– Extensible using customer specific algorithm via APIs and
PL/SQL functions (WMS_RE_CUSTOM_PUB)

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