Creating Waves
You can create waves for all outbound delivery order items that are assigned to one or more transportation units (TUs). In the Shipping Cockpit – Planning
you might use this function for the pick-to-stage process in order to trigger the warehouse process. In the Shipping Cockpit – Execution
you might use this function for the pick-to-load process if you want to trigger the warehouse process if the truck has already arrived. In this case, you must use a wave template with automatic wave release.
The following options are available for creating waves:
Manually – Template/TU
A new wave is created for each selected TU for a manually entered template and a wave option. In most cases, a single wave is created, but depending on wave capacities more than one may be created. If you select items in the hierarchy level below the TU, the system attempts to create the wave for all the items that belong to the TU.
Automatically – Determination/TU
For each TU the system determines a template for all outbound delivery order items and creates new waves accordingly. Each wave created only contains items from one TU.
Automatically – Determination
For all TUs the system determines a template for all outbound delivery order items at the same time. Either existing waves are enhanced with new items or new waves are created. The resulting waves do not necessarily only contain items of a single TU.
After wave creation the status for Wave Plan
in the Transportation Unit
or Execution View
screen area is adjusted. The field can have the following statuses:
Green: All items are assigned to waves. If any item is not assigned, no planned picking quantity is open.
Red: There are items without wave assignment and with open planned picking quantity.