Example - Reducing Replenishment Product Touches
If FIFO is not a concern, consider filling forward pick locations during put-away. This can eliminate a material handling move.
To make this happen, setup the following:
1 Setup an SLG list (10 = 040EA, 20 = 040PL); then, search first the FP locations then reserve storage.
2 Assign the SLG list to the item in Multi-Level Item Maintenance.
3 Dedicate an item and associated capacity quantity to each forward pick location using Warehouse Location Maintenance.
If the location does not have a dedicated item, any item is stored there when the zone is considered for a put-away. (All locations in the zone need to be dedicated to an item.)
4 Setup the put-away algorithm with 101, 102, 1, 1 (Empty dedicated location merge with part in dedicated, empty storage location, any location).
5 Set Zone Optimization to Yes for all forward pick zones using the SLG,
Done properly, this fills the forward pick locations to capacity and moves the remainder to reserve storage. This also works in sequential order with multiple forward pick zones (that is, Box and Each).
