Picking Strategies
What is Picking?
Picking is the process of picking individual items from a fulfillment facility (warehouse) or location (picking bins) to satisfy customers’ orders. When performing the picking process within DATASCOPE WMS, operators use picking assistance devices, e.g., wireless RF scanners or mobile devices, to receive their picking instructions. The picking screens indicate what must be picked, and from where to pick the required stock.
Pick Slip Assigning
All picking starts with an assigning process. In this process DATASCOPE WMS can apply rules such as blocking a picker from starting a picking slip for a customer when there is another older picking slip for the same customer.
Bin Type Picking
In DATASCOPE WMS one can set the picking detail level by bin type. For instance, one can set that unit picking to be applied when picking from pick face bins, while pallet picking can be applied to all bulk locations.
Stock code scanning
All picking strategies have the option to force the user to scan the stock code or barcode associated with the product.
Quantity auto-populating
Most picking strategies allow the user to enter the quantity or can auto-populate the quantity based on the area in which the user is picking.
Over and under picking
Tolerances can be applied to warehouses in conjunction with supervisor overrides. Permissions exist to pick from alternate TrackIDs and skip lines.
PICKING STRATEGIES AND OPTIONS
Various picking strategies exist within DATASCOPE WMS, of which the following are the most popular:
- Sales Pick to Pickslip
- Pick to TrackID
- Carton Picking
- Sales Order MSN Picking