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 Pick
Inventory Pick

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

How to set it up

In Mobile WMS Setup:

Field: "Enable Tote Picking"

Enables Tote-functionality

Field "Tote per."

There are three different ways of grouping totes together

Destination No.
- Group all Orders/Lines for a Customer into one Tote
- Used in combination with a new "Warehouse Shipment" document
Source No.
- Group all Lines of an Order/Source Document into one Tote
Whse. Document No.
- Group all Orders/Lines for a Shipment in one work flow
- Used in combination with the "Pick Worksheet" page

Usage example in steps in Business Central / NAV

In Mobile WMS Setup

Set "Tote per" to "Destination no."

Create your order(s)

Create a new blank "Warehouse Shipment" document

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

How it works behind the scenes

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

See also

Video training material on Tote -Picking/-Shipping on University
- http://university.taskletfactory.com

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