Pick Delivery

An overview of application used for picking released outbound deliveries.

Overview

  • Support major order types (COs, DOs, MOs, ROs, REPLs)

  • Different Search modes (allows a user to choose a way of searching for available Pick Lists and Pick List Lines).

    • Search Bulk - gives an overall, high-level searching criteria.

    • Search Detail - focuses on already labelled products. Powered by GS1 standard, one might instantly fetch and allocate the Pick List Lines.

  • Quantity/Catch Weight/Lot/Container/To Location multi-pick option.

    • Pick one or many lines' alternatives at the same time.

  • Support for alternative Units of Measure.

    • Choose to work with alternative U/M which instantly calculates the quantity into standard U/M based on items' conversion factor from M3.

  • Support for Alias Numbers.

  • Embedded Calculator function.

    • Adds/removes instantly scanned labels that counts quantities, catch weights, lot numbers and containers. You may edit scanned values.

  • Embedded List Balance IDs function.

    • Provides overview of the stock to pick with respect to total allocatable net quantity (used in soft allocation).

  • Allocate and Report.

    • Quantity

      • Exceed the pick list line planned transaction quantity if necessary

    • Lot Numbers

    • Catch Weight

    • Containers/Inhouse Packages

    • From/To Location

  • Override hard-allocation.

    • Provides an option to reallocate the inventory of an already allocated pick list line.

  • Flag Pick List Line.

  • Automate screens.

    • By-pass report screens to accelerate the reporting steps.

  • Preview lines before reporting.

Used Environment Properties

Used Environment Properties

SELECT SEARCH MODE

  • Default Search Mode

SEARCH PICK LIST LINE

  • Default Dispatch Type

  • Default Warehouse

  • Default Location

SEARCH PICK LIST

  • Default Warehouse

  • Default From Number of Days

  • Default To Number of Days

  • Default Reference Order Category

  • Default Pick List Status

  • Default Pick List Line Status

SELECT PICK LIST

  • Automate Select Pick List screen

SELECT PICK LIST LINE

  • Automate Select Order Line screen

REPORT QUANTITY

  • Issue Report Method

  • Packing

  • Close Line

  • Automate Report Quantity screen

REPORT PACKAGE

  • Print Label

  • Default Package Type

  • Automate Report Package screen

REPORT LOCATION

  • Default Location

  • Automate Report Location screen

REPORT PRINTING

  • Default Printer

  • Default Number of Labels

  • Automate Report Printing screen

CONFIRM

  • Automate Confirm screen

User Steps

Search Mode

Use the following choice to define the Search Mode you wish to work with.

HEADER/INFO DATA

  • N/A

INPUT DATA

  • Detail/Bulk

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Tap on Search Mode check box to select one.

    • Bulk Mode allows you to identify pick lists and pick lists lines using high-level search criteria.

    • Detail Mode allows you to identify pick list lines by scanning the existing barcodes.

    • Blank is assigned as default.

    • Default can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

  • Click NEXT button to continue.

  • Click MENU button to get back to the main menu.

Detail

Use Detail search to quickly identify Pick List Lines by scanning the barcodes of the products allocated to the released deliveries.

Additional data used for picking, like quantity or catch weight will be remembered and auto-parsed inside the Report screens.

That function is a part of Search Mode screen.

Search Delivery (Detail)

If propDeliveryType is set to SHIPMENT, a user needs to select a shipment. If only one delivery is connected to the shipment, user is automatically taken to Search Balance ID screen.

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Warehouse

  • Pick Location

INPUT DATA

  • Delivery Numbers

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Tap on Delivery Number in the list to select one.

    • List is seggregated based on MWS420 Picking List. Report so that only deliveries and their picking lists released for picking are shown.

    • Delivery, Order Number, Consignee's ID and Consignee's Name are used and can be filtered through.

  • Click CHANGE WAREHOUSE to select another warehouse.

    • Choose the Warehouse by selecting one from the drop-down menu.

    • List comes from MMS005 Warehouse. Open.

    • Click BACK to get back to Search Delivery screen without any change.

    • Click NEXT to get back to Search Delivery screen with a confirmed warehouse change.

Select Pick Location (Detail)

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Warehouse

INPUT DATA

  • Locations

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Tap on Location in the list to select one.

    • List comes from MMS010 Stock Location. Open.

    • Only approved locations (status = 2) are shown.

    • Location IDs and Location Names are used and can be filtered through.

    • Blank is assigned as default.

    • Default can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

    • By assigning the location, user defines the picking location where the to-be-picked products are located. That location will be used in allocation process.

  • Click BACK to get back to Search Delivery screen without any change.

  • Click NEXT to get to Search Balance ID screen with a confirmed pick location change or Search Delivery screen if the function was triggered by CHANGE PICK LOCATION.

Search Balance ID (Detail)

Scanned/Added Balance IDs to the list not only indicate the pick lists lines but are also preliminarly hard-allocate them. Thus, a user might skip/automate all the later Reporting steps.

You may see all scanned values to be populated inside Select Pick List Line and Report Quantity / Catch Weight / Lot Number / Container screens.

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Warehouse

  • Pick Location

  • Delivery Number / Pick List Suffix

INPUT DATA

  • Multi-Data

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Scan the Multi-Data field to retrive the correct picking list line

    • The input field is equipped with embedded translation engine which retrives multiple values used in the later reporting process.

    • Refer to Managing Multiple Data Capture section to understand and configure capturing of the barcoded data.

    • When the scanned record refers to more than one hit, the Searched List screen pops up. Tap one record to add it to the list. Example below depicts a situation where a container number 312345610511086925 has been identified in the scanned string. YRA0101 has been chosen as Pick Location in the first place, one pick list line of that delivery is soft-allocated and one has the mentioned container hard-allocated. Thus the Searched List pops up where the correct pick list line has to be chosen.

Bulk

Use Bulk mode to retrive the pick lists and pick lists lines using high-level search criteria. None of the editable input fields are mandatory. It's yet adviseable to use them to narrow down the search result.

That function is a part of Search Mode screen.

Search Pick Lists

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Warehouse

INPUT DATA

  • From/To Date

  • Reference Order Category

  • Delivery

  • Shipment

  • Order Number

  • Zone

  • Route

  • Customer

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Tap on From Date and To Date to set from and to departure dates.

    • Blanks are assigned as defaults.

    • Defaults can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

  • Tap on Reference Order Category to select one.

    • The following can be chosen:

      • Customer Orders

      • Distribution Orders

      • Manufacturing Orders

      • Requisition Orders

      • Replenishment Orders

    • Lines' quantity indicates the number of released pick list lines per order category.

    • Blank is assigned as default.

    • Default can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

  • Tap on Delivery drop-down menu to select one.

    • List is seggregated based on MWS420 Pick List. Report so that only deliveries released for picking are shown.

    • Lines' quantity indicates the number of released pick list lines per Delivery.

    • Delivery Numbers can be filtered through.

  • Tap on Shipment drop-down menu to select one.

    • List is seggregated based on MWS420 Pick List. Report so that only shipments, which at least one connected delivery is released for picking, are shown.

    • Lines' quantity indicates the number of released pick list lines per Shipment.

    • Shipment Numbers can be filtered through.

  • Tap on Order drop-down menu to select one.

    • List is seggregated based on MWS420 Pick List. Report so that only orders of the deliveries released for picking are shown.

    • Abbreviations in parentheses indicate the order types.

    • Lines' quantity indicates the number of released pick list lines per Order Number.

    • Order Numbers and Order Categories can be filtered through.

  • Tap on Zone drop-down menu to select one.

    • List is seggregated based on MWS420 Pick List. Report so that only pick lists released against the chosen stock zones are shown.

    • Lines' quantity indicates the number of released pick list lines per Stock Zone.

    • Stock Zone IDs can be filtered through.

  • Tap on Route drop-down menu to select one.

    • List is seggregated based on MWS420 Pick List. Report so that only pick lists assigned to selected routes are shown.

    • Lines' quantity indicates the number of released pick list lines per Route.

    • Route IDs and Route Names can be filtered through.

  • Tap on Customer drop-down menu to select one.

    • List is seggregated based on MWS420 Pick List. Report so that only pick lists assigned to selected customers (consignees) are shown.

    • Lines' quantity indicates the number of released pick list lines per Customer.

    • Customer IDs and Customer Names can be filtered through.

Select Pick List

Yellow shadow of the row (in grid) or left frame (tile) indicates the pick list has been partly reported (moved or issued).

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Departure Date

  • Customer ID (Customer Name)

  • Order Number (Order Category)

  • Delivery Number / Picking List Suffix

  • Number of Picking List Lines

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Select one or many pick lists to fetch the pick list lines.

    • If multiple pick lists are selected, all pick list lines belonging to those pick lists will be shown.

    • if there's only one pick list line assigned to a pick list, user will be directly taken to Report Quantity / Catch Weight / Lot Number / Container screens.

    • If the Shipment filter has been used in Search Pick Lists screen and all pick lists are selected, DRS100MI API is used to retrive the pick list lines.

  • Click BACK to get back to Search Pick Lists screen.

  • Click NEXT to proceed to Select Pick List Line screen.

Select Pick List Line

If multiple pick list lines are selected, each pick list line will be shown separately in the Reports screen, followed by the remaining ones until all of them are reported.

A Pick List Line is soft-allocated that has no value in Location column and alternatively Lot Number and/or Catch Weight and/or Container columns.

A Pick List Line with partly hard-allocated quantity indicates that only part of the required quantity has been scanned (applicable only via Detail Search).

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Item Number (Item Name)

  • Remaining / Allocated Quantity (Standard Units of Measure)

  • Lot Number

  • Catch Weight

  • Container

  • Location

  • Order Number / Order Line

  • Delivery Number

INPUT DATA

  • Multi Data

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Scan the Multi-Data field to retrive the correct picking list line

    • The input field is equipped with embedded translation engine which retrives multiple values used in the later reporting process.

    • Refer to Managing Multiple Data Capture section to understand and configure capturing of the barcoded data.

    • When the scanned record refers to an unique record, the Report Quantity / Catch Weight / Lot Number / Container screen pops up with all identified data. When more than one hit is identified, only identified records remain in the list. Tap on one or more record(s) to proceed with in the reporting step. Example below shows a moment where just a lot number 20230621001 has been identified in the scanned string. Since the lot number is shared by 4 Balance IDs, the list is narrowed down to those 4 records.

Report Quantity / Catch Weight / Lot Number / Container

The choice of Report Quantity / Catch Weight / Lot Number / Container user step variant is done automatically, based on the M3 item characterstics.

The following variants of Report Quantity / Catch Weight / Lot Number / Container user steps are available:

  • Report Quantity

  • Report Quantity / Lot Number

  • Report Quantity / Catch Weight / Lot Number

  • Report Quantity / Container

  • Report Quantity / Lot Number / Container

  • Report Quantity / Catch Weight / Lot Number / Container

Example: If an item has the following characteristics:

  • Lot-Control (Lot Control Method: 3-In lot master; Lot Numbering Method: 0-Manual entry)

  • Container Management activated (Container Management: 7-Container for Package)

The following user step will activate:

  • Report Quantity / Lot Number / Container

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Order Number / Line

  • Delivery Number / Pick List Suffix

  • Item Number / Item Name

  • Remaining Quantity / Total Available Quantity

  • Allocated Balance IDs

INPUT DATA

  • Close Line

  • Location

  • Lot Number

  • Container

  • Catch Weight

  • Unit of Measure

  • Quantity

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Tap on Close Line tickbox to flag complete the line after the report.

    • 0 is assigned as default.

    • Default can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

  • Type in/scan the Location value.

    • Balance ID's Location will be prompted when pick list line is hard-allocated.

      • It's possible to override that value with another one(s) which derive(s) from allocatable Balance ID(s) as long as the replacing total quantity does not exceed the original requested/remaining quantity of the line.

    • Blank will be prompted when pick list line is soft-allocated.

    • *MULTI value will be prompted in the following conditions:

      • If more than one Balance ID's Location will be selected using the List or Calculator function.

      • If Detail Search is used and more than one pick location is used for the same pick list line.

    • Blank is assigned as default.

    • Default can be changed in the global properties on user/app level. Hard-allocated line will override the value from the global property.

  • Type in/scan the Lot Number value.

    • Balance ID's Lot Number will be prompted when pick list line is hard-allocated.

      • It's possible to override that value with another one(s) which derive(s) from allocatable Balance ID(s) as long as the replacing total quantity does not exceed the original requested/remaining quantity of the line.

    • Blank will be prompted when pick list line is soft-allocated.

    • *MULTI value will be prompted in the following conditions:

      • If more than one Balance ID's Lot Number will be selected using the List or Calculator function.

      • If Detail Search is used and more than one Lot Number is used for the same pick list line.

  • Type in/scan the Container value.

    • Balance ID's Container will be prompted when pick list line is hard-allocated.

      • It's possible to override that value with another one(s) which derive(s) from allocatable Balance ID(s) as long as the replacing total quantity does not exceed the original requested/remaining quantity of the line.

    • Blank will be prompted when pick list line is soft-allocated.

    • *MULTI value will be prompted in the following conditions:

      • If more than one Balance ID's Container will be selected using the List or Calculator function.

      • If Detail Search is used and more than one Container is used for the same pick list line.

  • Type in/scan the numeric Catch Weight value.

  • Select Unit of Measure from the drop-down menu.

    • The unit of measure comes from MMS001 Item. Open is assigned as default.

    • Alternative units of measure comes from MMS015 Item. Connect Alternative U/M.

  • Type in/scan the numeric Quantity value.

    • If typed-in quantity exceeds the order's remaining quantity, the application brings a warning message.

  • Click LIST to browse available Balance IDs.

    • Tap to select Balance ID that should be allocated to the pick list line.

      • List is filtered by location. If there's no location given, all available and approved Balance IDs with allocatable quantities are displayed.

      • More than one Balance ID can be chosen.

      • Selected Balance ID(s) display the confirmed quantity (and alternatively Catch Weight) after / sign. This occurs when:

        • The Pick List Line has been hard-allocated.

        • The Pick List Line has been searched via Detail Mode.

        • A user has selected Balance ID(s) and confirmed quantities by pressing NEXT.

    • Scan the mutli-data barcode inside the Search Balance ID field to auto-select a Balance ID.

      • Refer to Managing Multiple Data Capture section to understand and configure capturing of the barcoded data.

      • If no match is found, the application brings a warning message.

    • Click CHANGE LOCATION to change the existing pick location.

      • Tap on a location to be selected.

        • Quantity under location ID indicates the allocatbale amount.

      • Click NEXT to assign the selected location.

      • Click BACK to get back to Edit screen without any changes being saved.

    • Click EDIT to edit quantitive data of selected Balance ID(s).

      • Add new Quantity and/or Catch Weight inside yellow columns

      • Click BACK to get back to Report screen without any changes being saved

      • Click NEXT to get back to Report screen with applied selections.

  • Click BACK to get back to Report screen without any changes being saved

  • Click NEXT to get back to Report screen with applied selections.

  • Click CALCULATOR to trigger calculator function.

    • Scan value into Add field to capture multi-data barcode.

      • Multi-Data value will be added instantly.

        • TOTAL record summarizes all the quantitative data.

          • If location is empty, the add/search will be done against all available and allocatable Balance IDs. If the same Balance ID exists in more than one location, Select Balance ID screen will pop-up where user has to choose one.

          • Refer to Managing Multiple Data Capture section to understand and configure capturing of the barcoded data.

          • The input field is equipped with embedded translation engine which retrives multiple values used in the reporting process.

    • Click EDIT to edit quantitive data of scanned items.

      • Select the record(s) you would wish to remove and click DELETE ROW.

        • Add a new row by clicking ADD ROW.

        • Add new Quantity and/or Catch Weight inside yellow columns.

        • Click BACK to get back to Calculator screen without any changes being saved.

        • Click NEXT to get back to Calculator screen with applied changes.

    • Click CHANGE LOCATION to change the existing pick location.

      • Tap on a location to be selected.

      • Click NEXT to assign the selected location.

      • Click BACK to get back to Edit screen without any changes being saved.

    • Click BACK to get back to Report screen without any changes being saved

    • Click NEXT to get back to Report screen with applied calculations.

  • Click BACK to get back to previous step.

  • Click NEXT to get to Report Location screen.

Pack Pick List Line

Pack Pisk List Line screen is activated only when a delivery, to which the allocated line belongs, has activated advanced processing of packing in M3. Additionally, a propEnablePacking must be set to TRUE or 1.

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Delivery Number / Pick List Suffix

  • Order Number / Line

  • Item Number / Item Name

INPUT DATA

  • Package Print

  • Allocated Balance IDs

  • Packages

  • Package Type

  • Package Number

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Tap on Package Print tickbox to trigger the printing option after the line is packaged.

    • Transport Label (MWS485PF) will be printed as an output.

    • Blank is assigned as default.

    • Default can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

  • Tap on (a) record(s) from Allocated Balance IDs grid to adjust the quantity to be packed in a package.

    • If no record(s) is/are changed and NEXT is pressed, all the content of the grid will be packaged into one package.

  • Tap on (a) record(s) from Packages grid to add the selected Balance ID(s) into a package.

    • Packages in the grid come from MWS423 Delivery. Connect Packages.

    • If an existing package has been selected, there's no need to fill in Package Type nor Package Number.

  • Tap on Package Type drop-down menu to select one.

    • The package types come from MMS050 Packaging. Open

    • Blank is assigned as default.

    • Defaults can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

  • Type in/scan the Package Number value.

    • If no value is inserted and no existing package(s) is selected, M3 logic will be used for a package number.

  • Click NEXT to get to Report Location screen.

  • Click BACK to return to Pack Pick List Line screen.

Report Location

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Order Number / Line

  • Delivery Number

  • Item Number / Item Name

  • Remaining Quantity / Allocated Quantity

  • Allocated Balance IDs

INPUT DATA

  • To Location

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Type in/scan the To Location value.

    • Blank is assigned as default.

    • Default can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

  • Click BACK to get back to Report screen.

  • Click NEXT to report the pick list line.

    • The application comes back with approve message that the pick list line has been picked (optionally packed and printed).

    • If there are more lines to report, You are redirected to the Select Pick List Line screen to continue reporting the remaining quantity of the reported line and/or new lines. Otherwise, you are directed to the Main Menu.

    • If you have an activated propConfirmYoN property, you might preview the formed Pick List Lines in the Confirm user step that will be used for pick reporting.

Confirm

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Lines to be picked

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Click BACK to get back to a previous applicable screen.

  • Click SAVE to run a selected transaction.

    • The application comes back with approve message that the pick list line has been picked (and optionally packed).

    • If there are more lines to report, You are redirected to the Select Pick List Line screen to continue reporting the remaining quantity of the reported line and/or new lines. Otherwise, you are directed to the Main Menu.

    • If Printing function for packages has been activated, You are redirected to the Report Printing screen.

Report Printing

INFO/HEADER DATA

  • Packages

INPUT DATA

  • Printer

  • Number of Labels

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Tap on Printer drop-down box to select one.

    • The printers come from CRS290 Printer. Open.

    • Blank is assigned as default.

    • Defaults can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

    • Printer ID and Printer Name can be filtered through.

  • Type in/scan Number of Labels value.

    • Blank is assigned as default.

    • Defaults can be changed in the global properties on user/app level.

  • Click BACK to get back to the main menu without printing.

  • Click NEXT to print the label.

    • The application comes back with approve message that the package has been printed.

    • If there are more lines to report, You are redirected to the Select Pick List Line screen to continue reporting the remaining quantity of the reported line and/or new lines. Otherwise, you are directed to the Main Menu.

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