Description

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.

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
    
    

• Only available with Advanced Warehousing

  • You must use Warehouse Pick / Shipment documents 
    
    

Supported documents

• Warehouse Shipment
• Warehouse Picks Pick
• Inventory PicksPick

High level process

Combine Sales orders/lines

This happens when:

• Multiple Sales Orders are added to a Warehouse Shipment document.
• Multiple Shipment are handled by the "Pick Worksheet".

Grouping

When/how should the system ask for Tote ID:

• This is determined by the  "Tote per." -setting (see below)

On the mobile devices

Tote Picking 

• The regular Pick functionality will ask for Tote ID when needed

Tote Shipping

• A separate icon on the Main Menu

Usage example in steps in Business Central / NAV

In Mobile WMS Setup

• Set "Tote per" to "Destination no." 
  
  

Create your order(s)

1. Create a new blank "Warehouse Shipment" document
1. Select "Get source Documents" to add your Order(s)
2. Select "Create Pick"
3. Set Sorting Method to Bin

You can now use the Tote -picking / Shipping on the Mobile Device

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How it works behind the scenes

For a descirption of the logic on the mobile app, see Collector Step Tote.