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
With Tote-Picking 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
It 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
Easy Shipping from 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
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
Source No.
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
Usage example in steps in D365BC/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.."
You can now use the Tote -picking / Shipping on the Mobile Device
See also
Video training material on Tote -Picking/-Shipping on University