Creating the Picking Waves 

Use

You now play the role of an employee in the central warehouse of the Hamburg plant. Certain conditions apply to this central warehouse:

The working hours of 07.00 to 17.00 for the picking are split into 4 time slots:

07.00 to 08.00

In this time period, you process any deliveries left over from the previous day.

8 to 12.

Deliveries are processed for orders received before 12.00.

12.00 to 17.00.

Deliveries are processed for orders received after 12.00.

We now check which of your deliveries need to be processed in the specified time slots. You then collect these deliveries into picking waves. These picking waves represent the work packages for subsequent goods distribution.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
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    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Logistics Execution ® Outbound Process ® Goods Issue for Outbound Delivery ® Picking ® Wave Picks ® Create ® Acc.to Delivery Time

    Transaction Code

    VL35

  2. Enter the following data:
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    Field

    Data

    Warehouse number

    001

    Reference date

    Next working day

    Timeslot group

    Z001

    Surplus deliveries as of

    Today‘s date

    The assignment of a delivery to a time slot is dependent on the time when the order is recorded. To ensure that this demo runs correctly, the deadlines for the orders you are about to process are set one working day in the future. You need to be aware, however, that the comments for this process describe the deliveries as if they are to be processed on today’s date, or that they are from the previous day.

  3. Choose .

    4. The system displays only 2 picking waves.

  4. Choose Settings ® Display variant ® Choose.
  5. In the dialog box, select display variant IDES-001, then choose Copy.

    6. This display variant shows the maximum weight of the picking wave and the weight of the assigned deliveries. As the list of deliveries to be picked is checked at hourly intervals, the maximum weight of the waves is based on these entries.

  6. Position your cursor on the line of the second planned picking wave, then choose . You now see a list of the deliveries assigned to this picking wave.

    7. The deliveries of the first picking wave have the status Stop. These are the unprocessed deliveries of the previous working day. They are assigned to the first picking wave.

    The traffic light for the second picking wave is red. The system informs you that the capacity limit for this picking wave has been exceeded. The capacity limit has been exceeded with the third delivery of this wave (note the red light for this delivery).

    As the capacity limit of the first picking wave has not yet been exhausted, you can now move a delivery from the second wave into the first wave.

  7. Position your cursor on the line for the third delivery of the second picking wave.

    8. This line is highlighted in color.

  8. Position your cursor on the line of the first picking wave, then double-click on it.

    9. The highlighted delivery has now been moved to the first picking wave.

  9. Choose .

    10. The system informs you that the picking waves have been saved as groups.

  10. Make a note of the group numbers issued by the system.
  11. Choose .