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Function documentationSemi-System-Guided Processing Using Radio Frequency

 

This function allows you to activate semi-system-guided processing within system-guided processing. This is useful for source storage bins that have more than one handling unit (HU). In system-guided processing, the system proposes one particular HU to the user for processing. Finding this particular HU can take up a lot of time. If the source storage bin contains multiple HUs, it is more efficient if the system instructs the warehouse worker to go to a particular source storage bin and remove any HU. This is what happens in semi-system-guided processing.

To use this function, you set the queue to semi-system-guided processing, not the source storage bin. When selecting a warehouse task, the system checks whether a queue has been set to semi-system-guided processing. If this is the case, the system sets the session to semi-system-guided. This affects processing in the following way:

  • The user verifes the source storage bin only.

  • The HU field is empty. The user can scan it.

After scanning, the system checks whether:

  • The scanned HU is available in the specified storage bin

  • An open warehouse task exists for this HU

  • The reported resource is allowed to process the HU

System-guided processing

Semi-system-guided processing

The screen shows you various data, such as HU, product, quantity, batch, and so on.

You only see the source storage bin and the input field for the HU.

Warehouse task is locked

Warehouse task is not locked, as it is still not clear which HU is being selected

Integration

Activating this function affects the system behavior of the system-guided processing that is preconfigured in the standard system.

Prerequisites

  • The warehouse task must contain a source handling unit, otherwise the system performs system-guided processing, where you have to verify the product, quantity, batch and so on. This also applies if the warehouse task has a queue assigned to it for which semi-system-guided processing is allowed.

  • Select the Semi-Sys indicator for semi-system-guided processing in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management.

    Choose Start of the navigation path Cross-Process Settings Next navigation step Resource Management Next navigation step Define Queues. End of the navigation path

Features

The semi-system-guided processing screen contains a pushbutton that allows you to activate the display of available HUs. You can also trigger other queries for the HU, such as queue or storage bin.

Example

The system only locks warehouse tasks in semi-system-guided mode after scanning the HU.

Resource RSRC1 is working in system-guided processing. It is given the task to go to source storage bin SRC1, and scan an HU. However, the storage bin contains one HU only. Resource RSRC1 moves to the source storage bin. This takes up time. Resource RSRC2, which does not have currently have a task but is moving within the warehouse, sees HU SRC1 in the storage bin, scans it, and takes it before RSRC1 arrives at the storage bin.

When resource RSRC1 arrives at the source storage bin, it only sees that there is no HU to be moved. The resource needs a new task:

  • It restarts the transaction in the menu

  • Alternativley, it chooses No HU and restarts the transaction.