We’ve had putaway running at one of our plants for a couple of years now in 25R1 (SU10). The warehouse is set up so that each location has the capacity for a full truck load. With putaway running and with mixed lot/batch and mised part number blocking turned on it looks for an empty location on the first handling unit receipt from each new Shop Order. It should then fill that location completely at which point the Shop Order should be complete.
We have putaway zone priorities in play too which means that if a higher priority location becomes available mid shop order, the transport tasks are then directed there for each HU receipt from that point forward. If a further higher priority becomes available the problem worsens. We then have a single lot/batch, single shop order spread across 3 locations, each with wasted capacity. We now have 2 fewer opportunities for the next shop order to find an empty location to start sending to. We are then double handling many pallets to consolidate them in the original intended location.
After investigation, IFS have concluded that this is not a problem. And indeed putaway is processing as described. But that doesn’t mean it is working in reality.
Have any other customers experienced this? Is there an appetite to push for this as a product improvement? To add a flag at the warehouse level to say ‘Follow lot/batch before any other Putaway priorities’?
Thanks!