Outbound

An outbound order is a delivery instruction against a consignee. It carries storer, consignee, DO number, order date and required date, with a line per product and UOM.

Releasing an order to READY allocates inventory against its lines. Allocated quantity is held and shown separately from available quantity on the inventory view, so a second order cannot be released against the same stock.

Allocation respects the storer's rotation rule, so the batch or expiry the picker is sent to is the one the client's policy dictates rather than the nearest one.

Wave planning groups orders that are already in picking by zone and assigns them to pickers, so a shift is planned as a set of waves rather than order by order. Available where the warehouse is flagged for wave planning.

Several released orders are selected together and combined into a single pick list, so a picker walks the aisle once for all of them instead of once per order. Available where the warehouse is flagged for batch picking.

A pick holds one or more pick lists, each with its own tasks and progress. A pick list can only be confirmed once every task on it has reached a picking or completed state.

Where less than the requested quantity is found, the top-level confirm prompts for a short-pick reason. The shortfall is recorded against the pick rather than silently reducing the order.

Manual picking is the guided web flow for picking without a scanner in hand. The operator scans or types the pick, chooses the order lines to work on, then selects the inventory to take from — with the option to take from several locations at once and set a quantity per location.

A scan-verified path is also available, stepping through location, product and lottable in sequence before the quantity is accepted. Every action logs to the productivity record.

Pick to store handles retail-style replenishment, where a pick is worked against a destination store rather than a single delivery order. Each pick shows its order and DO reference, storer, line count, live progress percentage, who it is assigned to, and start and completion times.

Pick status runs DRAFT, OPEN, READY, PICKING, PICKED, CONFIRMED. Available where the warehouse is flagged for pick to store.

Picked stock is packed into cartons, each carton receiving an id that is scanned again at loading. Where pick-and-pack is enabled on the warehouse, packing happens during picking rather than as a separate stage.

A load is the unit that leaves the building. Orders are added to a load, cartons and pallets are scanned to confirm what is physically on the vehicle, and confirming the load dispatches it.

Load detail shows what was scanned against what was expected, which is where a mis-load is caught before the vehicle leaves.

If a shipment is cancelled after loading, reverse putaway returns the loaded stock to storage locations and restores it to available inventory, rather than leaving it stranded in a dispatched state.