I set up automated fulfillment and its working great but sometimes the inventory for the part may be in several different bins and we want to use up the bin with the least inventory first. The automated fulfillment process appears to use the “first” (alphabetical) bin regardless of the AMM settings in site configuration. Is there another way to control this? Otherwise the pickers can’t just process what is in the queue, they have to do a bin search on each pick to see where the inventory exists and manually pick the right bin to pick from which is less than ideal. This is for picking sales orders.
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From Bin Maintenance help:
Note: When the Automatic replenishment process in the Epicor application searches for available supply inventory, it first looks at the primary bin designated for the supply warehouse in the Part Maintenance > Part > site > Warehouse > Primary Bin sheet. If no inventory is available in the primary bin, it then searches bins in the designated supply warehouse, sorted by their associated sequence numbers (as specified in the Sequence field).
I know but that isn’t what we want lol.
What are you picking, orders?
You wanted something other than the bin name? That would be the bin sequence# field.
Yep, sales orders.
Are you reserving or allocating?
No, I want it based on onhand qty, ascending. The setting exists in site config but automated fulfillment appears to ignore it.
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Reserve and release for picking.
This thread is now about rabbits.
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Yo, I thought the new fulfillment could use custom BAQs to do this?.
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I am pretty sure the only way to specify what BIN to pick from is VIA allocation.
You might need to allocate and set up your allocation template to sort the way you want.
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It lets you put a baq to pick WHICH orders to reserve/release but I don’t see anywhere to control which inventory is selected to fill them.
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Ooh where is that.
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Off to try this now. I did not apply a template in my rule.
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Beyond that I don’t think simply reserving will get you where you need to go. When you allocate instead of reserve, you can specify what BIN you want the inventory picked from when the request is generated. If you reserve it just uses some kind of hierarchy and you don’t get any kind of choice.
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I’m doing reserve and release all at once. Would you do allocate and release? Or reserve, allocate, release?
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If you are doing everything at once, you can bypass reserving and allocate/release.
e: reserve/allocate/release are basically optional steps along a process. Kind of like you can have a Pack ID go open → closed → freighted → shipped but you don’t have to do all of those things.
Now I’m daydreaming of this fantasy world where our pickers always pick from the BIn with the lowest quantity.
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