E-WMS

E-WMS: Crossdocking production receipts

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Introduction

This document describes the configuration and workings of crossdocking for production receipts in E-WMS.

Description

From product update 404, E-WMS offers crossdocking functionality for WMS production receipts, as was already available for purchase receipts. When enabled, during receipt of a produced item, WMS will check for open sales orders for that item. If found, the warehouse employee will be advised to put the quantity required for that sales order, aside to a specific location. This way, the warehouse handling (transferring) of produced goods can be minimized.

Requirements

Following is required to work with crossdocking for production receipts:

SE1380 E-WMS I (or SE5700 Pick-IT Basic + SE5705 Route Optimizing)
SE4250 E-WMS Production (or SE5740 Pick-IT Production)
SE1385 E-WMS Terminal user (or SE5791 Pick-IT Terminal user) per hand terminal
Communication method set to 'ASP'
'Picking advice' (Route Optimizing) enabled for order picking
Only standard items (not: Serial/Batch items) are supported

Configuration

Crossdocking can be configured in menu System, General, Settings, WMS Production Receipts.

Crossdocking
This setting enables crossdocking functionality in following processes.

in production receipts registration on the hand terminal, E-WMS will scan for sales orders requiring this item. When found, a new receipt line is created containing the generic crossdock location and the quantity required for the sales order line.
when generating a picking advice for sales orders, E-WMS will first advise stock put aside on the crossdock location for this sales order line

Partial delivery validation
This setting determines if you want to limit crossdocking only for sales orders which allow 'partial delivery'. Orders not allowing partial delivery will probably only be picked as a whole from the warehouse. Since a crossdock advice is generated on the scanner before entering the actually received quantity, crossdocking cannot determine if the receipt would allow partial or complete fulfillment.

When enabled, only orders where 'partial delivery allowed' is enabled, are considered for crossdocking (limiting the order selection).
When disabled, the order setting 'partial delivery allowed' is ignored.

Location
This setting determines the general crossdock location, used as receipt location on the hand terminal. This location is not validated here, nor a browser on available locations is provided here, because this location could exist in any (and in more than one) warehouse.

Days in advance
This setting determines for how many days in advance you want received stock to be crossdocked. This day factor is added to 'today' and matched with the planned delivery date in the sales order line. When set to '0' (zero), only sales orders to be fulfilled until today will then be candidate for crossdocking requirements.

Usage in production receipts

Once crossdocking is enabled, you will see you will see a message after entry of an item code in ASP production receipts . This instruction message shows which quantity you are supposed to crossdock for which sales order:

Press ENTER or the OK button to confirm the message, now the crossdock location (configured in the settings) will be advised as receipt location.
After reading back and processing the receipt, the stock will be available on the crossdock location.

Usage in order picking advice

When generating a picking advice for the sales order (for which the received stock was put aside on the crossdocking location), the crossdock location will be advised as picking location.