Pick Point 

Definition

The pick point is the actual place in the warehouse at which you pick items for a partial stock pick from a handling unit (HU).

In an automated high rack storage area (HRSA), the pick point can be a certain point on the conveyor line along which you move the HUs for picking. A pick point can also be a marked floor area to which you bring entire pallets for removal of products.

Use

If you cannot execute partial stock picks in a storage type, for example due to physical restrictions in a high rack storage area, you use pick points to pick partial quantities or to repack.

The following graphic illustrates how a partial stock pick occurs using a pick point.

If you only want to pick a portion of the product quantity from the HU, you bring the HU to the HU-managed pick point to carry out the actual picking.

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       1.      At the pick point, you pick the required product quantity from the HU and remove the required products to the goods issue zone.

       2.      After picking, you put away the HU with the remaining product quantity from the pick point back into the warehouse and confirm the HU warehouse task.

Return Transfer of HUs

You can putaway partial HUs back into the warehouse after picking at the pick point.

●     You have determined a fixed storage type for the return transfer of HUs, because you have a special storage type for partial HUs, for example.

In the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), choose Master Data ® Work Center ® Define Work Center.

EWM determines a new storage bin in the storage type and creates a corresponding HU warehouse task with the destination storage bin.

●     You putaway the partial HU back into the same storage type in which you previously removed it.

You do not determine a fixed storage type for the return transfer of HUs. EWM determines the storage type as well as the destination storage bin by using putaway strategies.

Integration

●     You define a pick-point in EWM as the “pick point“ storage type in Customizing for EWM, under Master Data ® Define Storage Type, by setting the storage role Storage Type Is Pick Point.

●     You link the pick point to the HU-managed storage type from which the stock removals to the pick point are to occur:

                            a.      In Customizing for EWM, choose Master Data ® Define Storage Type.

                            b.      Select the storage type to which you want to assign the pick point.

                            c.      Specify Pick Point Active.

                            d.      In Customizing for EWM, assign your pick point to a storage type, by choosing Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Task ® Define Layout-Oriented Storage Control.

For more information about layout-oriented storage control, see Layout-Oriented Storage Control.

For more information about Customizing for layout-oriented storage control, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Task ® Define Layout-Oriented Storage Control.

●     You set your pick point as work center.

In Customizing for EWM, choose Master Data ® Work Center ® Define Work Center.