Transport
The planned transport of storage units within the warehouse is carried out via the transfer orders that are generated by the system. As a rule, the source and destination storage location as well as the storage unit are exactly stored in a transfer order.
Exception
When storing SUs with identical stock qualifications (item number, batch, special stock number, quantity, …) in a block storage bin, the so-called “random access” is necessary because the position of a particular SU in the block is not known. The employee may then pick up any storage unit at the source storage location during retrieval.
The transport orders are assigned to a category depending on the process. The Transport orders form displays the number of open transport orders on the button of each category. By pressing a button, the employee decides which transport orders he or she will process.
Alternatively, he/she can scan the barcode of an SU to display an associated transport order. If no transfer order exists for the SU, the message “No transfer order item for storage unit ” is displayed.
Description of categories for transport orders:
| Button | Description |
|---|---|
| Goods receipt | Transports from the goods receipt to the warehouse |
| Production |
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| Internal | Planned stock transfers from
For a round trip, any empty trolley is scanned and loaded with the storage units to be transferred. After completing the setting up, the internal strategy is used to create the transfer orders for the round trip. The tour can be started immediately or tours can be created for additional cars. The creation of carriages is described in the chapter Warehouse structure › Change topology. |
| Provision | Transfer of SU requested for sales orders from the warehouse to the staging area (goods out › sales orders). |
| Goods out | Transport of shipping units from staging to goods out. Transfer orders for direct loading from the warehouse are also sorted here (goods out › sales orders). |
| All categories | Cross-category list of all open transport orders. |
| Sorting of transport orders | Within a category, the order of the transport orders is determined according to the following criteria:
Goods receipt Production Provision Goods out |