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We need to change the way our warehouse personnel pick parts from the warehouse. I believe the way we setup our warehouse locations when we first launched IFS may be the problem. This is one of our warehouse locations: 4012A. We assigned 40 to the row, 12 to the Tier and A to the Bay. So the row is correct. But the Bay or column should really be 12 and the Tier or level should really be A. This mis-assignment is causing our picking sequence to be inefficient. I believe the IFS default route order is Bay first then Row.

So in our current situation a picker is routed to pick all parts in Bay A, row 40 first before picking any parts in Bay B, row 40. So essentially the picker is having to loop back to the beginning of Row 40 every time that person has to start picking from a different Bay.

How do we change the Route Order so that we can pick by Tier first, then row since we are just reversing the default route order due our assignment problem? I was looking at the IFS documentation and it says you change the route order in Warehouse Navigator, but it doesn’t give further instructions.

Another question is how do we configure the pick sequence if let’s say Row 40 and Row 41 share the same aisle but want the picking sequence to sort the pick list by Tier (in our setup) for that aisle.  

Hi,

This is how the pick list is sorted against you warehouse structure:

  1. WAREHOUSE_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  2. BAY_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  3. ROW_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  4. TIER_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  5. BIN_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  6. LOCATION_NO Ascending

You can edit the route order freely on the different levels in your warehouse structure to achieve whatever sorting you desire.

Best Regards

Fredrik

Thank you very much for your response. But I still don’t know where it is done. Is it Warehouse Navigator?

 

Thanks,

Issy

 

It is an attribute on Warehouse, Bay, Row, Tier and Bin. You can edit on these objects either on the stand-alone pages for these objects e.g. the Warehouses page, The Warehouses Bays page, or in the warehouse navigator on each level. In the General tab you see the value of the selected object level and you then have the overview of the level beneath that where you can edit.

Some examples:

 

 

Thanks for the explanation. I think I understand now how to change the route order at each level. But maybe I was not clear enough. Because we configured our Bays and Tiers incorrectly, I am not able to change my Bays because my Bays are supposed to be my Tiers. So I really don’t need to change the route order at any level. I just need to change the warehouse route order structure itself.

Default IFS Warehouse Route Order Structure

  1. WAREHOUSE_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  2. BAY_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  3. ROW_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  4. TIER_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  5. BIN_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  6. LOCATION_NO Ascending.

I need the structure to be change to the below. In other words, re-order Tier_Route_Order and Bay_Route_Order.

  1. WAREHOUSE_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  2. TIER_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  3. ROW_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  4. BAY_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  5. BIN_ROUTE_ORDER Ascending, 
  6. LOCATION_NO Ascending.

Thanks,

Issy

Example of one of our locations that we configured incorrectly, where A is our Bay and 1 is our Tier. But in actuality, A is our Tier and 1 is our Bay. Most of our rows have 14 Bays or columns (1-14), and 4 Tiers or levels (A-D). If Re-Ordering the Warehouse Route Order Structure is not doable, what are our options other than to do a massive inventory movement exercise because Bays and Tiers are not editable. 

 

 

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