This document describes the generic usage of E-WMS control centre Replenishment, as per release 412.
E-WMS control centre Replenishment is available in Exact Globe Next menu WMS, To be processed, Inventory replenishment, Control centre. You can start simplified versions of this control centre in menu Send to scanner or Read from scanner, when you want to limit the possible options to the user logged on into Exact Globe Next.
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Following columns are shown:
Depending on the selected status, following buttons can be used:
* = available when one or more lines are selected in the control centre.
To generate new replenishment orders based on preconfigured preferences, click the Generate button. Different criteria will be displayed depending on whether the replenishment setting 'Requirements only' is disabled or enabled. When the replenishment setting 'Requirements only' is enabled, you will see the screen from release 412.
You can limit generating replenishment orders for specific ranges only. Most of these criteria are available since product update 412.
Click 'Start' to generate the replenishment orders.
Depending on the setting 'Immediate advising', the picking advice for the generated replenishment orders is generated as well.
When the advice setting 'Immediate picking' is enabled, then the step of sending the advice lines picking is also started.
You can still view or edit a generating picking advice, before sending it picking. The next chapter 'New' also applies to editing a generated picking advice.
Instead of generating new replenishment orders based on predefined stock levels, you can also enter replenishment orders manually. These are essentially guided transfers.
For creating manual replenishment orders, it is not necessary to have predefined target locations with minimum and maximum stock levels.
After clicking New, the Entry screen will be displayed.
In a company where E-WMS SKU Management is enabled, the lower panel will display relevant information.
The scan unit can also be changed on the scanner. Please see this document for more information on the scan unit.
Select status 'Advice' and press 'Refresh' in the Control Centre main screen, select the advice line(s) and press the 'Send to.. (scanner)' button. Depending the setting 'Assign specific scanner', you can specify a specific scanner or scanner group. A report will show after sending to scanner (depending report settings).
You can filter the advice lines and send these picking to different scanners using 'filter order lines', on criteria such as warehouse zone, item code, picking classification, or (when using SKU Management): 'scan unit'. From release 408 you are able to split replenishment orders into separate orders, so these orders can be picked and processed separately. Splitting orders into smaller orders will improve the 'real-time' factor because scanned replenishment orders are processed as soon as each single small order is 'done'. Otherwise the first scanned item will only be processed when the last line of the (larger) replenishment order is scanned. Filtering, splitting, and generating separate replenishment orders are different methods, and can be combined.
When using Auto queue to automatically send replenishment orders picking, the picking advice can be sent to different scanner groups, using E-WMS 'scanner group filters'.
Select status 'picking' (or 'all') and press 'Read from ..(scanner)'. Reading back will:
A report can be shown after read back, depending replenishment report setting. Replenishment lines in status 'picked can be edited or processed in the Control Centres. When opening and closing the edit screen, the lines will automatically be validated. When using the Replenishment RF service, reading back is done automatically. Whether these lines are also validated automatically, depends on the Replenishment setting 'Immediate validation'.
Select status 'picked' (or 'all'), select the replenishment lines and press 'Validate'. During validation, master data and E-WMS available stock are checked. A report may show depending on your settings. Validation will move the picked lines to status 'validated', or to status 'picking error' when validation fails.
When using the Replenishment RF service, the setting 'Immediate processing' determines whether validated lines are also processed immediately. In this case, picking errors have to monitored in the WMS RF Monitor.
When validation fails, the replenishment lines will move to status 'picking error'. A picking error can only be solved manually, once a transaction has status 'picking error' it will not be processed automatically even if the problem should be solved in the meantime. When opening a picking error, the problem will be marked red. Move the mouse cursor over the red area and the validation error will show.
In the case of Replenishment and using 'picking advice', an error 'insufficient stock' will be unlikely, since this advice was first calculated before sending to the scanner. But the warehouse employee could deviate from the advice, or other (Exact Globe Next) transactions may have been processed in the meantime. Upon calculation of the picking advice, Route Optimizing will include all stock positions including WMS stock reservations - but this depends on the setting 'Check stock' in the WMS General Settings. The same stock check is applied in WMS validation.
The picked lines in the lower section of the screen can be changed or deleted, or new lines can be added. When pressing F5 on the 'issuing location' field, a pop-up will be activated showing the current WMS 'available' stock positions. When the source of the 'picking error' is solved, the transaction can be processed from this screen by using the 'Process' button, or can just be saved. In that case the transaction will move to status 'validated' and can be processed manually from there. When all picked lines should be deleted and the transaction saved, then the replenishment order will move back to status 'new'.
Select status 'validated' (or 'all') and select the replenishment lines to be processed, then press 'Process'. After processing, the replenishment transactions will have become Exact Globe Next stock transactions. A report can be shown depending WMS Replenishment settings.
When using the Replenishment RF service, processing can be done automatically.