Overview
Blank stock required for production job can come from two main sources - deliveries on orders specifically for the job, and from stock in the warehouse - or indeed a combination of both.
Where the stock requirements are coming from stock in the warehouse, they must be physically picked. As TOT uses random stock location, the blank stock items may be in numerous physical locations.
As part of the picking process, strokeone will indicate where the physical stock is located.
This topic outlines how staff use the system to establish where the blank stock is, and administer the quantities picked
Process
In
strokeone navigate to Goods In
, then To be Picked.
The
to be picked layout opens and lists production jobs with blank stock
picking requirements that have not been fully satisfied sorted by
Date scheduled (i.e. date the production processes are scheduled to
use the stock)
Each
pick requirement can be assigned a priority
by the warehouse manager and allocated to a member of the Goods In
Staff to pick.
To aid in the efficient
prioritisation, assigned and managing of workload, a series of Filter
buttons exist at the bottom of the layout
These function as follows:-
Button | Comments |
To Be Picked | The default record set - records which have not had their pick requirement fully satisfied |
Can do a full pick (Fully allocated, not picked) | Pick requirements that can be fully satisfied from the warehouse |
Can do a part pick (part allocated, not picked) | Pick requirements that can be partially satisfied from the warehouse |
Might be able to pick (part allocated, part picked) | Pick requirements that can potentially be partially satisfied from the warehouse |
Having selected a pick
requirement to process - warehouse staff print out a corresponding
picking report
The picking report details
the garments together with their respective pick quantity requirement
alongside the current locations
Using the report staff
visit the locations and physically pick the required garments - and
annotate on the pick report the quantities they have picked from each
location
Once back at their desktops
- staff update the corresponding electronic record with their pick
details using the pick function, to call up the picking layout. Within
the picking layout, staff click the corresponding pick button and
specify the quantity they physically picked from each location.
Strokeone will update the
picking status of the job - if all items required are fully satisfied
the status will update to complete; if one or more of the requirements
are not fully picked it will update to amber.
If not already boxed up
- staff will box up the picked stock
The next stage is to label
the picked stock - this is done via the Print
Label button
Staff use Print Bulk label
where the picked stock is pallet based (typically 10 boxes or more)
else Print Label
For Bulk Labels you will be first prompted for how many pallets hold
the picked stock, and then for both label types, you will be prompted
for how many boxes the picked stock is contained in.
Staff then print out and
attach the labels to the boxes. The labels will state whether the
job is fully or partially picked.
The final part of the picking
process is to physically and electronically locate the picked stock.
There are three scenarios:-
If
a full pick - it is physically placed in a location
and the location recorded in the picked location field
If a partial
pick, and there is no
other partial picks for the job - the stock is physically
placed in the part pick area and electronically recorded as such
If a partial
pick, and there are existing
partial picks for the job - the warehouse staff will seek
to consolidate and condense the picks into the same location.
If not possible staff will locate the stock across multiple locations.