This document describes the general settings for E-WMS Replenishment in menu System, General, Settings, E-WMS Replenishment, as available per product update 413.
The settings tab 'WMS Replenishment' contains settings specific for the stock replenishment process of E-WMS. Besides these module settings, also hand terminal settings have to be configured.
You can jump directly to a specific settings section:
These settings apply to the general workings of the E-WMS Replenishment control center.
Communication This setting determines the default method of sending transactions to, or reading transactions from the mobile devices. This document provides more information on E-WMS communication methods. When in Exact Globe Next maintenance of warehouses (E-WMS button) a specific communication type was configured, than that communication type will be used, instead of this one. Ask user When enabled, at each 'send' or 'read-back' in the control center, the user is able to choose the communication method through a pop-up window. Under normal circumstances this option should be disabled. In practice this option will be used when you are communicating with different types of hand terminals - for example wireless ASP hand terminals, and also with CAB Activesync hand terminals. Please note it is not recommended to use several communication methods in the same database. It also possible to predefine a communication type per warehouse, in maintenance of 'warehouses'.
Scan code Determines how an item is identified after scanning an item- or scan code in the 'item' field. This document provides more information.
Default main warehouse Configures the default issuing warehouse in menu WMS, To be processed, Inventory replenishment, Control center. However, when you started the control center before, it will restore your previous used screen selections, possibly overruling this setting.
Printer This is the default printer used when printing E-WMS reports; this document provides more information.
This settings section was introduced in product update 408, related to 'Real-time replenishment'. In that specific scenario, replenishment orders need to be generated all the time, using the E-WMS Autoqueue service, where replenishment orders are not generated by replenishment logic but by sales order fulfilment advice logic. In addition, the settings 'Requirements: Sales orders' and 'Requirements: Production orders' were added in release 412.
Auto queue can also be used when you want to automatically generate replenishment orders and a picking advice, when not using Real-time replenishment.
Generate replenishment orders Enabled: When the Autoqueue service is running, replenishment orders are automatically generated. The interval of scanning for new requirements and generating replenishment orders is determined by the 'TimerInterval' configuration option in the service configuration file. When the Sales order fulfilment scenario setting is set to 'Scenario 1' (Real-time Replenishment), replenishment orders are not generated by E-WMS Replenishment logic but by the E-WMS Sales order fulfilment process. This means, when 'scenario 1' is enabled, this setting is not available (disabled) and is always applied as 'off'. Disabled: Autoqueue for replenishment is not generating replenishment orders. In case you are entering replenishment orders manually but would like to use Autoqueue only for automatic advice generation and sending picking, this setting can be disabled and the next setting 'Generate picking advice' can be enabled. Requirements: Sales orders When enabled, Auto queue will generate replenishment orders based on the quantities for sales order requirements. When disabled, sales order requirements are ignored. This setting is available from release 412 and is only visible when your license contains SE4000 E-Production. When not visible, this setting is regarded 'enabled'. The setting cannot be changed when the setting 'Generate replenishment orders' is disabled or when the setting 'Requirements only' is disabled.
Requirements: Production orders When enabled, Auto queue will generate replenishment orders based on the quantities for production order material requirements. When disabled, production order requirements are ignored. This setting is available from release 412 and is only visible when your license contains SE4000 E-Production. The setting cannot be changed when the setting 'Generate replenishment orders' is disabled or when the setting 'Requirements only' is disabled. Generate picking advice When enabled, the auto queue service will automatically generate a picking advice for generated replenishment orders, or for manually entered replenishment orders, or for orders which were created earlier but had insufficient stock available then. When disabled, no advice will be generated automatically for new replenishment orders, and orders will remain in status 'New'. Under normal circumstances, this setting should be enabled when using Auto queue for replenishment. To automatically send generated advices picking, the setting 'Immediate picking' in section 'Picking advice' must be enabled as well.
When using 'Real-time Replenishment', replenishment orders (not the picking advice) are created by the sales order process and not by the replenishment process. In that case, Auto queue only (but always) needs to generate a picking advice for the already available replenishment orders, so then this setting is always 'on' and cannot be changed.
From all warehouses By default this setting is disabled and auto queue will replenish the picking location from a location within the same warehouse. When enabled, auto queue will check all warehouses for available stock of the item, starting with the first warehouse based on alphabetical order.
These settings apply to the calculation of the requirement to be replenished.
Immediate advising When enabled, calculation of the picking advice is started automatically after the requirement has been generated, when pressing the 'Generate' button in control center Replenishment. When disabled, the advice calculation has to be started manually for the generated requirements, using the button 'Advice' (or button 'Process' when editing a replenishment order). When using Auto queue for replenishment orders, this setting should be enabled.
Days in advance This setting applies to the setting 'Requirements only' and configures the number of days in the future for which planned sales orders and production orders should be included as 'requirement'. When applied, 'today' + 'days in advance' is compared to the delivery date on sales order line level or to the 'start date' on material line level, and all orders to be fulfilled until this date are included as requirement for replenishment. When set to 0 (zero) only orders to be fulfilled until 'today' are included.
Requirements only This setting is of major importance and decides based on what needs replenishment will be started: order based or minimum stock based. When enabled, the replenishment requirement is calculated based on planned fulfilment lines (sales orders and material lines for production orders), in combination with configured minimum and maximum stock levels in either E-WMS Item Locations or in item/warehouse management (item main location). When disabled, the requirement is calculated based on minimum and maximum stock levels in either E-WMS Item Locations or in item/warehouse management. From release 412, this setting also determines whether additional order-based selections are shown in control center Replenishment, and whether the settings in section 'Generate replenishment orders - split orders' are available.
Stock Replenishment This setting determines to what level the locations or warehouses will be replenished:
Production locations When enabled, the replenishment process will only check for stock requirements on the planned warehouse location in the production order material line. You still have to configure an E-WMS item location for this location, to define the minimum and maximum stock levels. When the planned issue location in the production order material line is empty, then replenishment will act as with this setting disabled. When disabled, the planned warehouse location in production orders is disregarded and the standard rules for replenishment target locations are applied.
This setting is available from release 412 and is only visible when your license contains SE4000 E-Production as well as SE1312 E-Warehouse location.
The settings in this section are only available when the setting 'Requirements only' is enabled. A side effect of generating separate replenishment orders per target order is that status messages in the control center report (generate orders) or in RF monitor (Auto queue service) are shown seperately per target order: you will see more messages than without splitting. Also, the replenishment process does not 'remember' for which orders already a replenishment order was generated. New replenishment orders are always generated based on total requirements (not: requirements per order) and only after that, optionally created as separate replenishment orders. Sales order When enabled, replenishment orders are generated separately per sales order, which makes it possible to view the target sales order during the scan process. When disabled, replenishment orders are collected and total requirements are replenished.
Production order When enabled, replenishment orders are generated separately per production order, which makes it possible to view the target production order during the scan process. When disabled, replenishment orders are collected and total requirements are replenished. This setting is only visible when your license contains SE4000 E-Production. Selection code When enabled, replenishment orders are generated separately per selection code (from the sales order or production order), which makes it possible to replenish WMS 'urgent' orders separately. When disabled, replenishment orders are collected and total requirements are replenished. Ask user When enabled, an extra section 'Split orders' is available in control center Replenishment 'Generate' screen, with the above mentioned split options. When disabled, the split options are not shown in the control center and above settings are always applied.
The available settings depend on wheter SKU Management is used or not.
Include: allocated to stock This setting determines if stock allocated to sales orders in the replenishment source warehouse is to be regarded as not available for replenishment, when replenishing between different warehouses. This provides the possibility to leave stock in the source warehouse for (other) sales orders.
When enabled, the stock will be replenished from the free stock (shelf stock minus stock allocations and minus E-WMS stock reservations). As stock allocations are on item/warehouse level only, replenishment will preserve the allocated stock total level in the replenishment source warehouse, in any combination of warehouse locations or serial/batch numbers. This could mean that you have insufficient source stock to replenish from.
When disabled, replenishment does not take Exact Globe Next stock allocations into account, and will use the shelf stock (minus E-WMS stock reservations) to replenish from. This is also the default behaviour when replenishing within the same warehouse, since stock allocations do not matter in that case (since the stock still remains in the same warehouse).
Calculation of 'free stock' is only done when the WMS General setting 'Check stock/Stock' is enabled, and when the item in question is a stock item (G/L stock account=balance account). This setting is available from product update 400.
Check: minimum stock This setting gives the possibility to manage the minimum stock level you want to preserve in total at the replenishment source warehouse for the item. It only affects the minimum level set on the item/warehouse level ("Minimum PO level"); any minimum level configured per source location in E-WMS Item Locations is always preserved, regardless of this setting. Typically, you would not configure E-WMS Item Locations for source locations, unless you want to preserve minimum stock levels. This setting was introduced in product update 400.
When enabled, replenishment will apply the minimum stock levels defined in either item/warehouse management or in WMS item locations, and regard these minimum levels as not available to replenish from. When minimum levels are defined both, the maximum of these two minimum levels is applied during the replenishment calculation. This could mean that you have insufficient source stock, to replenish from.
When disabled, replenishment will only take the minimum stock levels for the source location (if any configured in WMS Item Locations) into account, but not on the item/warehouse level total level.
This setting is only applied when the WMS General setting 'Check stock/Stock' is not set to 'No check' and 'Check stock/Free stock' is enabled, and when the item in question is a stock item (G/L stock account=balance account).
Picking advice If this setting is enabled, Route Optimizing will be used to calculate a serial/batch advice and a location advice for the calculated requirements. If this setting is disabled, E-WMS will advice (available) stock from the item's default location only. In contrast to using Sales order fulfilment without advice, Replenishment advice will still perform a stock check and only advice the available stock on the item default location.
Changing the setting (either to 'enabled' or to 'disabled') has impact on E-WMS stock reservations. Please read this document (section 'Changing the 'Picking advice' setting').
Serial/batch advice settings Since this setting is available in several E-WMS modules, this setting is generally explained in this document.
SKU and location advice policy settings Please see document Picking advice: location policy and SKU policy. Please note that for replenishment, these policies are applied separately per replenishment line (per target location), and are not based on the total required quantity per item if multiple target locations would be replenished.
Full SKU Replenishment This setting is available only when SKU Management is enabled and was introduced in product update 404. This document provides more details on this setting. The setting provides the possibility to configure how you generally want to handle replenishing from SKUs, and offers the following choices. As a sample, a full SKU of 672 sales units and a requirement of 50 sales units is used.
This setting is also available in the configuration of SKU per item, in menu WMS, Setup, SKU, SKU per item, which overrides this generic module settings
DPA policy This setting is available from release 408 and determines what logic is applied when using 'Full SKU Replenishment' configured as 'Full SKU with DPA advice'. Only then, this setting can be changed, and offers following choices:
Report settings See document WMS Reports.
Immediate picking When enabled, a picking advice is sent to the scanners immediately after calculation of the advice. When disabled, the calculated advice remains in status "advice" where it can be viewed or edited. This advice has to be send to the scanners manually. When using Auto queue for replenishment, this setting should be enabled.
This section refers to the step of sending a replenishment advice to the scanners, to be picked.
File name See document WMS 'file name' setting
Picking method This setting determines the sort order of the lines sent to the scanner, in combination with 'Picking method 2' and 'Picking method 3'. This setting determines the primary sort order for the lines to be picked. Possible choices are:
Picking method 2 and Picking method 3 These settings are available from product update 406, for E-WMS I (SE1380). These settings offer additional sorting options to 'Picking method', and are default set to '(none)'. In case your picking location contain more than item code per location, you could add an additional sorting level.
Report settings See document WMS Reports
Filter order lines When enabled, an extra pop-up will show when sending orders to the scanners, which gives the possibility to split one or more sales orders to different scanners. See document WMS setting "Filter order lines". This setting is available in E-WMS Replenishment since product update 402.
Assign specific scanner See document WMS setting 'assign specific scanner'
Section: Send to scanner - split orders The settings in this section are available from product update 408. You can automatically split generated replenishment orders into separate orders, per item code or location, or combination. Please also see document E-WMS Replenishment: sample of splitting orders automatically. Splitting orders is only supported when working with communication method 'Scanner - ASP'. This method of splitting orders is performed after the replenishment orders and picking advices have been generated.
Item code When enabled, replenishment orders will be split into separate orders per item code, when sending to scanner. Source location When enabled, replenishment orders will be split into separate orders per advised source location, when sending to scanner. Target location When enabled, replenishment orders will be split into separate orders per target code, when sending to scanner. Ask user When enabled, the 'filter order lines' screen will show when sending replenishment orders to be picked, offering the 'split criteria' as well, so you can change these each time when sending picking. Default, these split criteria will be the same as in the replenishment settings.
These settings are used when reading back picked replenishment lines, either manually from within the control center or automatically by the replenishment RF service. Transactions can be read back as soon as they are 'ready' on the hand terminals.
Immediate validation When this setting is enabled, the 'validation' process will automatically start after reading back and the transactions will move to status "validated" or "picking error". When disabled, transactions stay in status "picked" until the button "Validate" is used. This setting should be enabled when using the RF service for Replenishment to allow for full automatic processing.
These settings are applied when the transactions are validated, either manually in the control center or automatic by the Replenishment RF service.
Immediate processing When enabled, validated transactions will be processed as Exact Globe Next shelf stock, immediately after successful validation. When disabled, processing has to be started manually from the status "validated" in the control center. This setting should be enabled when using the Replenishment RF service.
Allow transferring more Enabled: when picking 'more' than advised, this is processed without further notification. Disabled: picking 'more' results in status 'picking error' which has to be approved and processed manually.
Allow transferring less Enabled: when less units than advised are picked, this is processed without further notification. Disabled: less picking results in status 'picking error' which has to be approved.
These settings are applied when opening transactions in the control center, typically from status 'picking error', and determine whether it is allowed to process specific lines.
Allow transferring more When enabled, it is possible to process lines where more was issued than planned. When disabled, it is not possible to process 'more' fulfilments.
Allow transferring less When enabled, it is possible to process lines where less was issued than planned. When disabled, it is not possible to process 'less' fulfilments.
These settings are applied when processing replenishment lines.