We have created a transfer order to move a large amount of products from one site to another. The transfer order includes parts that have multiple locations/bins, within the same warehouse.
We are then using Fulfilment Workbench to select all the lines, and then ‘Actions’, ‘Reserve and Release for Picking’ to send them to the Material Request Queue. (They will then be processed into PCID’s, but I don’t think thats relevant to issue).
The problem is that on the MRQ, where there are multiple products, the MRQ is simply selecting the first Bin (by alpha-numeric order) and displaying that for all the iterations of that product. You can see in Part Tracker the multiple bins, but in MRQ it just shows one.
We have tried one line the transfer order for the full amount to see if it automatically picks up the locations, and having the locations in transfer order as separate lines, but doesn’t seem to make any difference.
Is this standard functionality? Feels like there should be a way to get the correct bin number to show, but maybe we are missing something somewhere, appreciate any suggestions as we’re quite new to this.
AFAIK, that is set by:
Site Config > Inventory > General > Detail > Site Warehouse Defaults > Bin (Receiving)
According to this post you can update this using Receipt Entry later if is different from the above location. Beyond that you would need some sort of BPM to update the location to the Part > Site > Warehouse > Default Bin
Perhaps this would make a good idea (like many of these) to add a flag (checkbox) Default Receipt location to the above PrimBinNum.
I might be off the mark here but I think because Reserve is a ‘soft’ function, probably will just default to a generic location.
I take it you are interested in seeing specific part locations for the picking process?
Allocation would create MRQ transactions to take stock from specific locations - the allocation template allows you to dictate (to a degree) how that looks - i.e. take from bin with highest qty, lowest qty etc. Not perfect but might give you something to work with?
Thanks both, yes I suspect its us not understanding exactly how this should work. Appreciate your responses - we’ve found a decent workaround for what we are doing but doing to look into further as it something that we’ll be using in the future as well.
Reserve is indeed more of a soft function. I believe the where to pick from is meant to be left to the pickers discretion in this scenario. They can easily search all the BINs and quantities for the part they are picking right from the pick screen.
If you want the direction of where to pick specific quantities from to come from elsewhere, Allocation is meant to do just that.