How you pick components for production depends on how your
warehouse is set up as a location.
When your warehouse location requires pick processing but does
not require shipment processing, you use the Inventory Pick document to organize and
record the picking of components.
When your location does require both pick and shipment
processing, you can create a Warehouse
Pick document from either the production order or from the
pick worksheets.
These methods of creating a pick are described below.
To Pick Components from the Inventory Pick Document:
You will create inventory pick documents for your components
when your location is set up to require pick processing but not
shipment processing. The production order must be released in order
to be ready for picking.
The first step in creating the inventory pick is to create the
outbound request. The outbound warehouse request is created
whenever the production order status is changed to Released or when the released production
order is created.
The creation of the outbound request serves as a signal to the
warehouse that the production order components are ready for
picking. Someone working in the warehouse creating inventory
picks can now see that the production order is ready and can create
the Inventory Pick for the
components.
Click in the header and press F3 to create a new inventory pick
document.
To access the production order components, click Functions, Get Source Documents and select
the released production order.
Fill in the pick lines as appropriate. For more information
about a field, click the field and press F1.
Perform the pick and record the actual picking information in
the Inventory Pick window.
When the lines are ready for posting, click Posting, Post. The posting will create the necessary
warehouse entries and post the consumption of the items.
Note
You can also create an Inventory Pick directly from the released
production order by clicking Functions, Create Inventory Put-away/Pick and placing
a check mark in the Create Pick
field on the Options tab of the
request window. You can print the pick list by placing a
check mark in the Print
Document field.
To Pick Components from the Pick Worksheets:
When your warehouse location is set up to require both pick and
shipment processing, you will use the pick worksheets to organize
and record the picking of components.
When you change the status of a
production order to Released, the program simultaneously releases
the production order components to the pick worksheet in the
warehouse.
Open the Pick Worksheet
window and click Functions,
Get Warehouse Documents,
and select the pick lines from the released production order.
Inspect the lines, sort them to make an efficient pick round,
and combine them with other pick lines, if necessary, to make best
use of employee time.
When you have finished sorting and editing the lines, click
Functions, Create Pick.
You can now find the pick lines for
the production order in a pick instruction.
When your warehouse location is set up
to use directed put-away and pick, the warehouse is linked to your
manufacturing facility through the default production bins: the
inbound and outbound production bins and the open shop bin, all of
which you define on the Bins
tab of the location card. The program creates lines Take and
Place lines for all the items on the bill of materials, if they are
available in the warehouse. The bin on lines with action type Place
is the inbound production bin that you set up on the location card.
A warehouse employee can now move the items from storage to the
inbound production bin and register the pick.
Note
You can also create a warehouse pick
instruction directly, without using the pick worksheet. In the
released production order, click Functions, Warehouse, Create Pick.
Warehouse Pick
window.