In fulfillment workbench, there is a field called “Packout Warehouse”. I’m trying to figure out where this is being set. I would think it would be the warehouse for the order on the release, but that’s not the case. The other place I would think would be the site configuration defaults. Now, those match this row, however, if I change that default, that doesn’t change what shows up on the row. But I don’t know if there is something that generates these rows that I would have to run before that gets updated. Does anyone know how that’s controlled? I’m automating some of the picking process to help with large volumes of small packs, and I want to keep as many defaults as possible. But this one doesn’t seem to make sense to me.
Helptext in Kinetic browser shows it as “table” OrderAlloc…fields StageBin, StageWhseCode, StagingWhseDescription…except I don’t see any OrderAlloc table available via BAQ…temporary construct within workbench?
EDIT 1: Pack Out Entry screen shows table PackOut and fields WarehouseCode and BinNum. Not familiar with it though, pretty sure our team is primarily using Customer Shipment Entry.
EDIT 2: redacted - @banderson clarified that it’s purchased parts
The lines highlight show the same part number, 2 different orders because I made a new order to see what the heck was going on. The new order, worked like I expected (uses the sites default… it would be better to use the order… but whatever)
HOWEVER! If you stage an order (which I was doing with a different part of this process, I’ve been messing with the same order over and over. staging, unstaging, picking, unpicking etc.)
There is a field on OrderRel that is shown nowhere that I can find that writes a staging warehouse. Then the system uses THAT to make it the default to from then on…
I proved it by clearing out the staging warehouse for those records in the database, when when I search for the parts in the fulfillment workbench again, the packout warehouse is the default site warehouse.
So that tells me what FIELD is controlling it. Is there any actual control of that field in the UI? Or is that just a background hidden field?
So it seems like the staging option uses the site default warehouse and stashes it in OrderRel. If that’s the case, could it be getting the default bin from the shipping workstation? I don’t see any UI spot.
No, the default bin/warehouse on the workstation wasn’t it. It’s the default warehouse/bin for shipping, I changed them all to be different to see where it came from. BUT it can only uses that if the staging warehouse field is empty. I’m not 100% sure when it got populated, but it’s probably when I staged the order line, I then un-staged it, and it probably just didn’t get cleared like it should have. Or maybe that’s a feature not a bug.
Regardless, using the site default doesn’t work for me any way, because lots of our site uses 3pl warehouses, and they ship them from there, so a default warehouse and bin for the whole site doesn’t work anyways. So I’ll be setting the “To” warehouse and bin to be the same as the “from” in my automation and call it good.
