Wave Planner

1What this screen is for #

• Menu path: Warehouse Management > Outbound > Wave Planner. Route /warehouse/waves .
• An order is awaiting release when its type has Use WMS bins on in Voucher Manager (a Sales Order, a Production Order, an order of StockType Order-IN) and a goods line of it still asks for stock in the storage space: ordered, less delivered, less what is already staged in the dispatch bin, less what open pick tasks hold. The same reckoning the Picking screen uses, so the two never offer the same stock twice.
• Can ship says what the bins could give the order now, on its own: In full , Part with the quantity, or None , and why (hold the pointer over a short line). Two ticked orders that want the same stock are settled at release, in the order ticked.
• Build wave makes a draft that holds nothing. Release allocates: for each line, the batch with the earliest expiry first, then the bin that received the stock first, then the item's pick bin, then the walking order; only Active bins, never the dispatch bin, a QC hold, Damage, Returns, Packing or Dispatch bin, never an expired batch; a line that names a batch takes that batch only. Where the storage space tracks pallets a whole pallet that fits is one task. The allocation is held on the bin balance (allocated, so no other wave or move counts on it) and one Pick task per line and bin is raised.
• A wave stands as Released , then Picking once a pick is confirmed, then Picked when no task is open. A wave with nothing picked can be cancelled : its tasks go and the holds are let go; the orders are offered to the next wave.
• Mode only orders the pick list: By order prints the orders one after the other, each in walking order; Batch prints one list in walking order. On My Tasks the picks are always in walking order.

2Step by step #

1. Pick the storage space . Narrow the orders by date or text if the list is long.
2. Click the orders that go together to tick them - the ones that can ship in full, as a rule. Tick all shown ticks every order listed.
3. Press Build wave (F3) , choose By order or Batch, add a note, leave Release at once on, and confirm. The wave is built and released in one go; the answer names the pick tasks raised and any line short of stock.
4. Or untick Release at once to keep a draft: pick it on the right and press Release (F5) when the floor is ready.
5. Watch the wave on the right: picks done, quantity picked, lines that could not be filled. Pick list prints the tasks in walking order for a picker who works on paper.
6. The pickers work the tasks on My Tasks . Once the wave is Picked , make the Delivery Note from the order on the voucher screen: it takes the staged stock from the dispatch bin. (The Dispatch desk that posts it comes with the next part of this phase.)

3Toolbar & keyboard #

• Refresh (F2) reads the orders and waves again; Enter in the find box does the same.
• Build wave (F3) with the ticked orders; Release (F5) the draft wave picked on the right. Both confirm first (OK focused).
• Cancel wave asks for a reason; it is refused once a pick is confirmed.
• Pick list opens the wave's tasks in walking order with a Print button.
• Esc closes a dialog; with none open, the page.

4If something does not work #