Move into stock - Perform putaway and route order

Hi ​@MarkusK 

The sequence of Route Order at the warehouse level affects movement and travel efficiency.

• Defining it at the warehouse level determines the sequence of orders between warehouses.

• Defining it at the bay level determines the sequence of orders between bays.

• Defining it at the row level determines the sequence of orders between rows. 

regards,

Piyal

​@Piyal Perera can You please elaborate this?

When route orders are defined for warehouse locations, how are these used when putaway based transport tasks are generated? I would assume that the defined route order should be applied so that the line no 1 would have part no with the lowest route order.

Hi ​@AveTonitM,

    Yes. I would suggest to simple test plan to visualize how it works.

• Create a new Part.
• Select a warehouse in your site with many Bays and Rows.
• Define different Route Order numbers for for your Bays and another pattern for Rows.
• Setup relevant storage zone and then putway zone for your inventory part.
• Receive a few quantities to some other location.
• Inventory Part In stock - run perform putway for the newly received quantity.
• Check Transport Task To location

regards,

Piyal

Hi,

When performing warehouse operations, inefficiencies can arise due to people moving extra distance unnecessarily as when a Customer Order or Shop Order Pick list is printed or a Count Report generated, IFS sorts rows in the reports based on Warehouse, Bay, Row, Tier, Bin sequence. If these are numbered in some structured manner, then the amount of walking between locations is minimum. The Route Order field was introduced to overrule this sorting order rather than people trying to change their location numbering that exist already.

By default, the Route Order in each level will be the same. Meaning for example the Warehouse ID will equal the Route ID for the Warehouse.

Say that you have bays 1,2 and 3. It might make sense to first pick Bay 1, then rather than Bay 2, move to Bay 3. You could manipulate the IFS default sorting order by entering Route Order 2 to Bay 3 and Route Order 3 to Bay 2.

If you have Bays defined like B1, B2, B3….B10, B11, IFS will sort your picklist rows for example like  B1, B10, B12, B2, B3.... This means that after Bay B1, you need to travel to B10. You could overrule this default IFS sorting using Route Order in this instance as below.

B1=1

B2=2

B3=3

….

B10=10

B11=11

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Sheran