This activity is used to create consolidated pick lists. A consolidated pick list is a way of grouping a pick list based on certain selection criteria. This gives you the possibility to choose how your pick lists are to be consolidated, e.g., per deliver-to-customer number, routes, and planned ship periods. You can either create a consolidated pick list directly or schedule the task as a background job.
In the Parameter sections, you can specify the selection criteria for the records that are to be included in the pick lists, i.e., the pick lists will be created for all the orders matching the specified criteria.
You can also specify additional selection criteria for the records to be included in the pick list. For example, forward agent, location group, deliver-to-customer number, etc. Entry can be made using special symbols like for example, ;, %.You can use the wildcard character percent (%) for selecting every possible value for that field. E.g., entering % in the Order No field will include all order lines in the consolidated pick list. Entering A% will include all order lines with an order ID beginning with the letter A.
In the Pick List(s) per option, you can specify how you want to consolidate the pick list, e.g., whether you want to create a separate pick list per deliver- to-customer number, route, forward agent etc.
The Max Orders/Shipments Per Pick List field enables you to specify how many orders or shipments of those matching the specified criteria, should be included per pick-list. You can either enter a specific value or use the wildcard character percent (%) to include any number of orders on a pick list.
The Include Customer Orders option controls how you want the customer orders to be included in the pick list. The Complete within Selection Parameters option makes sure that all reserved material of a customer order fitting the selection parameters is included in the consolidated pick list provided that all customer order lines can be picked completely. If at least one customer order line cannot be picked completely, no pick list will be created at all for that customer order. The All Lines option enables you to include all lines that are ready to be picked of a particular customer order, if at least one line in that order matches the specified criteria. This will make sure that you have the option to keep a customer order together when creating a pick list.
The Only Handling Units to be Picked in One Step option controls if the pick list should only include top level handling units completely reserved by one demand line. For instance this will be beneficial when using bulk zones and handling units. With this option you can distinguish the handling units that you can pick in one step, from the handling units that you have to move and then pick as a second step i.e. handling units partly reserved or reserved by many demand lines.
Customer order lines that have the Shipment Creation option as At Pick List Creation, and which match the entered criteria, will be connected to a shipment during the creation of the consolidated pick list. For these order lines, the created pick-list will always be created per shipment ID instead of the entered Pick List(s) per option. If the Multiple Shipments per Pick List option is enabled, you can include multiple shipments in one consolidated pick list based on the selection criteria.
Note that for orders previously connected to a shipment, the above will not apply to create a pick list. In the shipment, you can manually create a pick list consolidated per shipment ID using the Create Pick List command, on the shipment or on the consolidated shipment. A consolidated shipment is defined as one departure of several shipments from the specified site, to all the delivery addresses of the connected shipments. When executed from the consolidated shipment the pick lists per shipment ID are created for all connected shipments. Note that creation of a pick list in the shipment can be done automatically in the shipment flow if the shipment type allows this.