Picker Generation

Picker documents can be generated using the Picker Document Release Select and Detail screens.  The Select screen enables you to select order shipments to be printed on the pickers or to enter selection criteria to display a list of shipments that can be consolidated on a single picker or pickers.  Selection criteria used to display and print order shipments include:

·     Company/warehouse

·     Order shipment range

·     Ship-to customer

·     Bill-to customer

·     Load number range

·     Carrier

·     Shipment route

·     Picker batch number

To display a list of shipments for the selection criteria, press F5-Picker Defaults and enter Y in the Batch Release Grouping flag.  If you only want to enter a request without selecting from a list of shipments, set the Batch Release flag to N.  If the Batch Release Grouping flag on the Picker Defaults window is Y, a list of order shipments are then displayed on the Detail screen.  You can create one picker for each shipment or group shipments on a single picker.

To group shipments, on the Detail screen, you enter any specific character (except D, P, or S) in the Select field for each shipment that you want to include on a picker.  The screen below illustrates this procedure:

WILLIAMS   CO  001            ORDER PROCESSING                         5/01/94

 DSP01      WHS BEL         PICKER DOCUMENT RELEASE                     DETAIL 

                                                                               

                                                                               

 Ship-to Customer  C01         001 BRU  Bill-to Customer                       

                                                                               

                                                                               

   Shp Date Order Num/Shp S Load Number Ship-to-Cst SVia Carrier  Ship Zone  BF

 A 05/03/94 025024 00 001 O             C01         S1   CARRIER1 CALIFORNIA  Y

 A 05/03/94 025026 00 001 R             C01         S1   CARRIER1 CALIFORNIA  Y

 A 05/03/94 002100 00 003 R             C01         S1                        Y

 B 05/04/94 002103 00 002 R             C01         S1                        Y

 B 05/04/94 002103 00 003 R             C01         S1                        Y

 B 05/04/94 002668 01 001 O             C01         S1                        Y

 B 05/04/94 002929 01 001 O             C01         S1                        Y

 C 05/05/94 003044 03 001 O             C01         S1                        Y

 C 05/05/94 L00010 00 001 O             C01         S1                        Y

 C 05/05/93 PK0001 00 001 O             C01         S1                        Y

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 D - Detail   P - Reprint Picker Batch  S - Reprint Order Shipment             

 F2=Command          F3=Exit             F5=Picker Defaults  F10=Select        

 F15=Rekey Data      F22=End Transaction                                       

                                                                               

      Picker Document Release Detail screen (OP310S12)

The order shipments on the screen are being grouped onto three different picker batches using the characters A, B, and C.

Each picker generated can be formatted for picking by order shipment or by warehouse zone.  The Sales Order Picker by Order Shipment report lists all items by order shipment.  The Sales Order Picker by Zone report lists items by warehouse zone.  To specify which format you want to print, set the Pick by Zone Flag on the Picker Default window.  If you are picking by zone, you can also specify how the items on the picker are sorted within each zone:

·     Part number

·     Sequence

·     Customer

To facilitate picking, stocking locations can be assigned to a warehouse zone.  For each location, a picking sequence within the zone can also be defined.  You can then select to print your picker by warehouse zone in sequence order.

You can also use the Picker Document Release Select and Detail screens to reprint pickers.  When a picker is generated, its batch job number is printed on the copy.  Enter this picker batch job number on the Select screen and press Enter.  If the Batch Release Grouping flag is set to Y, on the Detail screen, the order shipments included on that picker will be displayed.  To reprint the entire picker, enter a P on any shipment line and press F22-End Transaction.  To reprint the picker for just one or several order shipments, enter an S on the requested shipment line(s) and press F22-End Transaction.

Considerations

The Picker Default window allows you to change default settings that are originally defined on Reference File category I70.  You can access the Picker Default window  and override the default values when you generate pickers using the Picker Document Release Select and Detail screens or when you are assigning order shipments to loads using the Load Consolidation Detail screen.

Pickers that are generated immediately will also use the picker defaults from Reference File category I70 to determine if it should be printed by order shipment or by warehouse zone.

Pickers that are requested in the Shipping Workbench or the Load Consolidation conversation will be submitted to the batch request file and must be released using the Order Processing Submit Pending Jobs menu.

Exception Pickers will be automatically generated if information such as order quantity, unit of measure, or reserved quantity is changed.