I think in discrete manufacturing industries, there exists a very similar requirement as described in https://community.ifs.com/ideas/shop-order-material-transport-tasks-53431 .
We are an industrial equipment manufacturer with several hundred employees in the shop.
The shop is very diversified, with welding, machining, inhouse assembly of mechanical, hyddraulics systems or electrical control cabinets.
The different types of shops are in different buildings
All shops are structured with several workcenters. Every workcenter is a collection of several physical workstations.
The warehouses are also distributed in a range of several km.
Same parts can be stored in multiple different warehouse segments, sometimes close by the requesting shop, in the main warehouse or even in the outdoor storage.
Due to this structure of shops and warehouses, we have implemented a CRIM to support the process as described in this idea.
Process:
- in general: request - pick - pack - transport (+issue) - receive(+issue)
- shopfloor managers check part availability
- shop floor managers request all or a selection of components of the shop order to a "destination" location connected to a specific workstation
- This request is done by doing an inventory reservation
- Warehouse workers are creating pick lists for the reserved order lines. The requested delivery date is the main sort criteria.
- Pick lists are created per shop order, per "destination" location, per warehouse area.
- Warehouse Picker is picking according to picklist. Handling Unit is created and picked parts are assigned to one or more handling units
- then handling units are sent to the destination location with a warehouse task.
- material issue can be executed together with the warehouse task execution or later with confirmation of receipt of the handling unit at the destination location
We implemented this process also for the picking of other order types:
- shop order
- customer order
- work order
- material requistion (for other internal demands)
Other things to consider:
- Definition of warehouse areas prioritized per destination location (close to the workstation) to handle reservation logic with the benefit to minimize transport distance
- One single order can be supplied by transport tasks from different warehouse areas.
- Transport tasks from one single order can be requested to several different destination locations (reasons could be: big, small, electrical parts)
- The destination location can also be the shipping area for final packing for transportation.
- Generic shipment should be considered in this proposal as well, to support the picking from warehouse and transport to some internal packing station.
- Benefits: Picking and transportation process between warehouse and destination location is consistent for all different types of orders. This leads to increased usability, and higher effectifity of warehouse workers.
related to https://community.ifs.com/ideas/shop-order-material-transport-tasks-53431