WHS Sales Work - Random Pick-Lines?

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Hello to all,

currently I am working with a company that is doing a very long lasting quality check before sales picking.

If a customer orders Product A, B and C, all three items are put to a quality inspection zone. From here the actual "Sales Pick" will be executed. Therefor a Sales Order with 3 lines (A, B, C) is released to warehouse.

The items are already grouped by Sales Order (or Shipment) and the sales pick is performed via mobile device on the inspection table. But here comes the tricky part. The customer insists on picking the items random. Not ordered by item.

But the mobile devices is forcing me to pick one work line after each other. My idea was to create one sales line per item, with qty 1, but still the lines are in a order and grouped by item. Even if i delete all orders in work templates, it takes the order of sales order lines.

Is it in any way possible to sales pick these items randomly? A, B, A, C, A, B, B?

(All pieces have an own license plate)

I think it is not possible without customization but I any suggestions from you guys are highly welcome!

Best regards

Patrick

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Hi Patrick,

Maybe I don't understand your problem very well, but I can only think about using the "Skip" button on your mobile device, which will skip the actual line (the first one if you have just taken the work) and will offer you to pick the next one. You can do it as many times as you want.

I think (however I have never tried) that when you get to the last line, the first one which was skipped before appears again to be picked.

Tell If that is what you are looking for.

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Hi Nik,

that is correct. The skip button allows me to cycle through the pick lines in the created work.

Anyway, the Company wants to scan each item randomly without disruption of any menu or functional button. They want to scan the items right after each other, in an unsorted way.

Since all items are already in the inspection zone (in the same location) they just want to scan all LP's there.

Best regards

Patrick

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Hi Nik,

Mobile device will not go back to the skipped line item until you close the sales picking screen on the mobile device and open it again. Since you might again pick randomly among the left over lines, it may not be a viable solution.

I also think this requires customization.

Regards,

Narasimha

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Hi Patrick,

Just to get it clear; if there is a sales order for 2 x Item A and 2 x Item B, they want to make 4 individual picks. And they want that the picks are not in order A, A, B, B?

Does 'all pieces have own License plate' mean that the A's are all on one LP and the B's all on another, or that each A is on its own LP and each B is on its own LP. i.e. in my example above are there two LPs to pick from or 4?

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Hi Guy!

Yes, the LP is equal to Serial. So we have 4 LP's with one pcs on it.

And they want to pick in no order. A, A, B, B, or A, B, A, B, or B, B, A, A, all should be possible.

Best regards

Patrick

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Guy Terry 28,924 Moderator on at

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Well, you could get it to create one instance of work for each quantity of each item. Use the Work template to do this. On the 'General' tab of the Work template header, set a Maximum Qty of 1 (and the Maximum unit to the item's unit of measure).

With multiple instances of work, you can pick anyone you want. You could use the Work list to allow the hand held user to select which one to pick.

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