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Releasing a Wave
Releasing a Wave
Use Wave Release (4.15.8) to release a wave. When you start a picking process, the system creates a pre-shipper. In the warehousing system, when you release the wave, you release the sales and distribution orders for picking and the system creates and prints a pre-shipper.
When you release a wave, the system:
• Uses picking logic to calculate the number of items needed for the wave
• Makes tasks available to staff through the RF device
• Creates and prints the pre-shipper for sales and distribution orders
For SOs only, the system looks for any previously open pre-shipper for the same ship-to and carrier. If an open pre-shipper exists, the system adds more lines to the pre-shipper. This occurs primarily when you specify full-pallet picking during the replenishment step, but staff have more lines to pick in the picking area during the wave release step. The system also considers pre-shippers created for other waves but for the same ship-to and carrier. However, once the pre-shipper is printed and you create a shipper from it, the system no longer considers the pre-shipper and creates a new pre-shipper number. This process has important consequences when staff consolidate since they can only put items for the same pre-shipper on the same pallet.
Note: You can use Wave Pre-Shipper Workbench (4.15.14) to review pre-shippers linked to wave, view wave pre-shipper details, and perform additional wave pre-shipper functions, including merging wave pre-shippers.
When you release a wave, the system collects orders for a wave and groups them in wave release groups. The system then activates the groups.
• Set
Create RG in Wave Release to Yes in Wave Planning Control to automatically create the release groups when you release the wave.
• Set
Activate RG in Wave Release to Yes in Wave Planning Control to automatically activate the release group when you release the wave.
If you set both options to No in Wave Planning Control, you can manually create and activate release groups, assigning your own orders from the wave using Wave Release Groups Creation (4.15.9). You can manually activate the release groups using Wave Release Groups Activation (4.15.10).
To manage throughput of large quantities, you can release orders on a wave incrementally. Or you can release all orders at once for smaller quantities.
Example You have 30 staff picking 1000 order lines for a UPS carrier, but you have only one shipping lane for that carrier. Instead of releasing all 1000 order lines at the same time and creating a congestion of workers in the single shipping lane, you release the 1000 order lines in increments of 100 lines each. This continual throughput eliminates the shipping lane congestion and ensures all items are in the shipping lane in time for the carrier.
You can release orders for which the stock has been completely replenished for all lines. This lets you do multiple releases of the same wave and release more orders.
The system applies priority to wave releases so that staff are not picking for multiple waves released at the same time. So, if you release three waves that are open at the same point in time, the system arranges them so that staff finish picking for one wave before picking for another.
Important: You can only release an order if there are no open replenishment tasks for the complete pre-shipper; that is, there are no existing replenishment tasks for any item of any order line belonging to the same pre-shipper.
Use Order Whse Detail Status Inquiry (4.15.4.1) or Wave Open Order Inquiry (4.15.4.5) to view order status.
Use Wave Status Inquiry (4.15.4.3) to view the status of a wave release and to determine when to release a wave. This inquiry shows when the wave is ready to be released and when all orders on the wave can be released. It also shows when the wave can be partially released, when some orders can be released, or when other orders require additional replenishment before releasing them.