Walkthrough: Preparing a truck to visit different pubs and stores

Article04/02/20244 min read

In our company we use own trucks to transport our products to different customers. The flow we use, is:

  • The Sales employee, enters Sales Orders
  • The Warehouse Planner creates Combined Warehouse Shipments from the Route Planning Worksheet.
  • The Warehouse Picks are picked and put on the shipment bin for this truck.
  • In the morning the truck driver will put all his pallets in the truck and do his round.

When creating picks to be used for our own trucks, we have some standard rules in our company, mainly to help the truck driver to put the pallets in a comprehensive way on his truck:

  • Keg pallets are put first in the truck, so all keg picks should be done separately and added together in the truck.
  • Full pallets and mixed pallets for 1 destination to be tagged with a destination label.
  • All orders for other customers, with small orders, will be put together on mixed and full pallets without a destination label.

Setup warehouse template

1. Select the Search icon , enter Warehouse Templates, and then choose the related link.
2. On the Warehouse Templates page, filter the Warehouse Template Group on 1_GENERAL.

Explanation of peculiarities

  • Warehouse Template Code 10_DESTFULL

    • Pick Rounding: Pick Unit of Measure from Pick Template
    • Pick Unit of Measure: PAL
    • Create Pick By: Destination
    • Picking Type: Full
      This line will create a full pallet pick per Destination Please be aware that the items to be picked in full pallets, need an Item Unit of Measure equal to the Pick Unit of Measure.

  • Warehouse Template Code 11_DESTTIER

    • Pick Rounding: Pick Unit of Measure from Pick Template
    • Pick Unit of Measure: TIER
    • Create Pick By: Destination
    • Picking Type: Full
      This line will create a pick per tier (layer) per Destination, if activated

  • Warehouse Template Code 12_WHOLMIXKEG

    • Destination Picking Group Filter: WHOLESALERS
    • Unit of Measure: KEG
    • Pick Rounding: Empty
    • Pick Unit of Measure: Empty
    • Create Pick By: Destination
    • Picking Type: Mix
    • Move to Template Code: 10_DESTFULL
      This line will create a pick, only for warehouse shipment lines with an Unit of Measure KEG, per Destination, only for customers where the Destination Picking Group Filter on the customer is WHOLESALER. If there are multiple warehouse shipment lines with the same item, and with a total of at least 1 PAL, specified in the Pick Unit of Measure field of the Move to Template Code line, we will add those lines to the full pallet pick for this destination in a multiple of the PAL.

  • Warehouse Template Code 14_DESMIXOTHER

    • Pick Rounding: Empty
    • Equivalent Unit of Measure
    • Min. Quantity: 0,50
    • Max. Quantity: 0,00
    • Calculate Min\Max By: Destination
    • Pick Unit of Measure: Empty
    • Create Pick By: Destination
    • Picking Type: Mix
      This line will create a pick, per Destination, only for customers with a total quantity higher than half a pallet, of all items together in the warehouse lines.

Warehouse Shipment to Picks

3. Select the Search icon , enter Warehouse Shipments, and then choose the related link.
4. Select Warehouse Shipment SH000011.
5. Check the fields Source No., Destination No, and Destination Address Code in the Warehouse Shipment Lines.
6. Select the Create Pick action.
7. Select the Pick Lines action.
8. Sort the No. ascending, remember the No (First No).
9. Sort the No. descending, remember the No (Last No).
10. Select the Search icon , enter Warehouse Picks, and then choose the related link.
11. Check the fields Pick Template Group, Pick Template Code, Destination No, and Destination Address Code.
12. While reading the explanations below
a. Select the Warehouse Pick
b. In the Lines, filter the Action Type on Take
c. Sort the Item No. ascending

Explanation

  • Open first Pick

    • Destination No.: 95100
    • Pick Template Code: 10_DESTFULL
      Not all quantities in the lines are full pallet quantities. Please check and discover the sum of the different lines per item result in a multiple of the PAL Unit of Measure quantity of that item. This is due to the Move to Template code 10_DESTFULL in the Warehouse Template Code 14_DESMIXMOTHER. In this setting, multiple orders on 1 warehouse shipment result in multiple warehouse shipment lines, and because of the Move to Template Code, totals to full PAL are added to the Warehouse Template Code in the Move to Template Code. So, all full PAL to be picked for, in this case per destination, will be added in the full PAL Pick.

  • Open fourth Pick

    • Destination No.: 95100
    • Pick Template Code: 10_DESTMIXOTHER
      In this pick we find the remainder of all not full PAL quantity lines for this destination after the Move to Template Code did his work. So, no full PAL quantities remain to be picked in the mix pick.

  • Open fifth Pick

    • Destination No.: 95300
    • Pick Template Code: 10_DESTMIXOTHER
      This destination has only a Mix Pick. Because the total quantity of the mix pick exceeds the 0,5 PAL in the Min. Quantity and the Equivalent Unit of Measure on the picking template settings, a separate Mix Pick is created.
      For all destinations not ordered more than 0,5 PAL, nor being WHOLESALERS, combined mix picks are created, separately for Kegs and for the rest.

  • Open seventh Pick

    • Destination No.: Empty.
    • Pick Template Code: 10_COMMIXKEG

  • Open eighth Pick

    • Destination No.: Empty.
    • Pick Template Code: 10_COMMIX
      Check the different destinations, and orders, in the pick.