In a nutshell
Enables you to perform Picking / Shipping operations more efficiently by consolidating several orders onto Pick orders and Shipments.
- Saving on Shipping costs,
- Picking efficiently for several orders
- and tracking containers, are all benefits
What is a Tote
A container/box/bag designed for shipping, marked with a unique barcode.
How can I use Totes
This functionality enables you to bundle Picking / Shipping operations more efficiently.
Benefits
You can pick Multiple Orders to the Same Recipient into a Single Container/Tote and ship all the orders together on the same shipment.
- Reduce shipping costs
- Reduce handling and complexity
- Avoid wasting packing material
Or you can pick Multiple Orders to Different Recipients into a Multiple Totes in "One Go".
The Pick lines will be sorted by Bin.
- The warehouse worker will only have to visit each Bin once
- Reduce time picking
Background
Tote picking has been designed for Web shops with these common challenges
High number of orders with Low number of items
Picking Only One order at a time is Not efficient
Many orders = many shipments = much paperwork
Tote shipping can provide easy shipping from the Mobile device
- The shipping process can also be performed efficiently from the Mobile Device, by using Tote-Shipping.
- Simply scanning each Tote will post the shipment.
Limitations
- Tote-Picked orders are afterwards Tote-Shipped
- The two goes together
- The two goes together
Only available with Advanced Warehousing
You must use Warehouse Pick / Shipment documents
Where to find it
Tote-picking
The Pick functionality
Tote-shipping
- Separate item on the Main Menu
How to set it up
In Mobile WMS Setup:
Field: "Enable Tote Picking"
- Enables Tote-functionality
Field "Tote per."
- There are 3 different ways of using Totes
- Destination No.
- Group all Orders/Lines for a Customer into one Tote
- Group all Orders/Lines for a Customer into one Tote
- Source No.
- Group all Lines of a Order/Source Document into one Tote
- Group all Lines of a Order/Source Document into one Tote
- Whse. Document No.
- Group all Orders/Lines for a Shipment into One Tote
- Used in combination with the Pick Worksheet
- Destination No.
Usage example in steps in Business Central / NAV
In Mobile WMS Setup
- Set "Tote per" to "Destination no."
Create your order(s)
- Create a blank Warehouse Shipment
- Select "Get source Documents" to add your Order(s)
- Select "Create Pick"
- Set Sorting Method to Bin
You can now use the Tote -picking / Shipping on the Mobile Device
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Video training material on Tote -Picking/-Shipping on University