Assessing Fulfilments

1. Identify the set of fulfilments that can be picked.

1. Use the Can pick filters to return the record set.
   See understanding Fulfilment Filters for supplemental information as to how these filters work.

2. Review the fulfilment records to get a reasonable estimate of the effort and skillset required and the optimal picking method to use.

3. Estimating this requires experience and training - and you will learn through the process of doing. However, some key things to consider are:-

1. Storage Location Height - if stock required is in bays that require forklift / flexi platform access -these need qualified staff to access.

2. Number of physical locations required items are in - if all the stock is in a single location, there is less moving between locations needed.

3. Whether the location contains only the stock for the fulfilment - if it does, then the whole location can be quickly relocated locally.

• If the location contains more QTY of the SKU then needed, then it is likely the balance will need reboxing / relabelling - smart relocate would be a good option.

• Similarly if the location contains other SKU's that are not needed then these may require reboxing / relabelling - again smart relocate would be a good option for this type of requirement.

4. Whether several fulfilments can be satisfied from the location(s) - if so then these fulfilments should be grouped together for physical picking.

• If the location contains only those items needed on the fulfilments and the fulfilments combined require the whole balance, then the fulfilments should be grouped the whole location could be relocated.

• If the location contains only those items needed on the fulfilments, but there are excess quantities, then grouping the fulfilments together for smart relocate would make sense.

• Ditto, If there other non needed SKU's in the location - it makes sense to group the fulfilments together for smart relocate.

5. Physical quantity / size of items - larger items in higher numbers take more effort to physically move.

4. Update the fulfilments in strokeone to reflect the required picking approach.

5. Where fulfilments are to be grouped for picking purposes - allocate them to the same picking person.

6. Use the weight field to record the required approach - using the following naming convention.

1. Reloc All: Where the whole location contents can be relocated to satisfy a fulfilment.

2. Omit  & Reloc - Where you can omit one or more skus and relocate the rest of the whole location.

3. Smart: where the recommendation is to use smart relocate.

4. Pick by Loc - where the user should pick by location.

5. Flexi - where the stock requires high level access to retrieve.
   

7. Where the fulfilments should be picked together - suffix the pick method  with the same numeric.
   For example:-
   

   Fulfilment	Description	Picked by	Field
   67891	Pulp	ROS	Reloc All
   67892	EJOC	ROS	Omit & Reloc
   67893	Jeff Dun	ROS	Reloc All : 1
   67894	Garbage	ROS	Reloc All : 1
   67895	Lovely eggs	ROS	Reloc All : 1
   67896	Blur	ROS	Smart 1
   67897	Morrissey	ROS	Smart 1
   67898	Swag	ROS	Smart 1
   67899	Blah	ROS	Smart 1
   67900	Tortoise	ROS	Smart 2
   67901	Billy	ROS	Smart 2
   67902	Muck	ROS	Smart 2
   67903	Skip	ROS	Pick by Loc
   67904	EMF	ROS	Flexi

    

8. Remember that the availability of stock for fulfilments changes throughout the shift - so assessing fulfilments for picking should be done frequently
   

9. Additionally, review fulfilments for future dates that can be picked  - wherever possible these should be assessed and picked to pro-actively manage workload