The orders for which staff pick can be very large. Occasionally, staff need to drop off boxes at consolidation areas or shipping lanes before they complete batch picking for an order. This is especially useful if staff are picking at locations that are close to the shipping lanes or consolidation areas.

When all completed pick tasks have the same destination location, warehouse staff can optionally drop off all items they finished picking. This lets them avoid scanning each box and the destination location for confirmation.

If one completed pick task is for a different destination location, staff can still drop off completed boxes, but they must drop off the boxes one by one, scanning the box number, then the location in which they drop off boxes, such as the shipping lane.

If all picked boxes are going to the same destination, for example, the same shipping lane, warehouse staff can press F6 on the RF during picking tasks to display the following prompt:

Staff should specify Yes to drop off all boxes for which they completed picking tasks if the destination location is the same for all boxes.

If one or more boxes are going to a different destination, then staff must scan each box and destination location each time they drop off a single box.

Staff confirm the destination locations, then move to the To Location screen. Staff can press Enter, Tab, or the arrow keys to move among fields, or press F4 to end the drop-off process.

If staff select to end the drop-off process, the system prompts to undo all previously picked items and not confirm transactions. When the user responds with Yes, the system returns items to the original locations from the user’s picking cart and de-assigns all transactions. If settings in Batch Picking Control do not allow the undo transactions, all pending transactions are deselected and the system moves to the confirmation/drop screen. When staff invoke the drop screen from the picking screen, they cannot undo transactions as this option is available only through picking screens.

When staff decide to leave the dropping process without undoing transactions, those transactions remain with a pending status. The next time staff choose the batch-picking option from the RF, the system immediately returns to the drop-off screen to complete the process.

When the drop-off or drop-all is complete, the user can continue the batch-picking process for the remaining allocated tasks.