As part of a redesign of one warehouse we are looking for a way to have a single Kanban pull result in a two-step material move that can be handled by WADACO.
The situation is that production cells trigger the kanban, pulling material from the warehouse. However for the new warehouse design the material must be picked from the warehouse locations and put into a single staging location, and then a separate move needs to be done from the staging location to the production cell.
Is there a way to handle this natively inside IFS, accurately reflecting the true material locations and without any of the warehouse team waiting on material that is not yet in staging? We use Transport Tasks today so that’s where we’ve been focusing to try to solve but maybe there is a different approach?
If there’s no standard way to achieve this in IFS, the best thought I have at this time is as follows but it seems like overkill:
- Use an event to kill any Transport Task that gets created to pull from the new warehouse
- The event would automatically create a new Transport Task with the same new warehouse location but we would hardcode the destination to be STAGING.
- We would use a custom field on the new Transport Task to store the original destination from the original Trans Task for use later.
- When any Transport Task completes with destination of STAGING, we would have another event create a new Transport Task with hardcoded location of STAGING and the destination set to the custom field value from the Trans Task that completed, which would represent the original intended destination.
Open to any thoughts or suggestions either as to a standard feature we’re missing or something better we can build if needed…
Thanks,
Nick
