Here’s what we do. I’ll throw in some variations. All of the following assumes AMM.
When orders are entered, or jobs are released, the FWB is run to allocate inventory to these demands. While we use EMW/EMWW/EKMW (or whatever it’s being called now), we still currently use paper to assign the allocations to a person. The MTLQUE report is customized to include shipping information for orders, warehouse information for jobs. In fact, the APR prints out the job material queues to different locations based on the warehouse where the picks were created.
On the job side, they just scan the material queue sequence number to issue the material to the jobs.
On the order fulfillment side, they go into Outbound Orders to select their items, and then they go into the My Outbound Order to actually pick the order. We use PCIDs to pick the parts to, so when we go into shipment entry we can use the PCIDs to pull those picks into the shipment (serial/lot numbers and all). If you don’t use PCIDs, you can ship order by picks under the Actions Menu.
Several things of note:
- The sort order of the FWB is critically important. However it is sorted on the screen controls the order of allocations.
- Ship complete lines/orders cannot be picked until they are 100% allocated.
- Enabling cross docking on the allocation template will ensure that new stock gets allocated to the backorderd job/orders in the order they were first allocated.