Activity
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R) Procedure of evaluation of availability of requested product
Trigger: After a pick release request comes from sales to finished good warehouse
Tasks:
1-Once a pick release request is notified to supervisor of FG warehouse, he must look at the request items, quantities and specifications and then look for availability of such criteria's in the whole FG warehouse. This search can be done by the help of system very easily.
Note:
If our company is producing based on make-to-order scenario, each item in warehouse is belonging to a specific sales order & customer and it is findable in the system. So the only action that warehouse supervisor must do is to look for items belonging to the sales order number or customer name which is written on the coming request.
Any which way, after seeking the availability, the request should be forwarded to inventory keeper of the warehouse which location items is found. If the availability is there for part of request into two parts, one part will be ready to deliver and should be forwarded to appropriate warehouse location. Second part that contains the non-available quantity is set to batch order, which means waiting for availability.
Concerned role:
Supervisor of FG warehouse
S) Procedure of product reservation to pick release request (sales)
Trigger: When a Move Order (pick release request) for some quantity of some product item is forwarded to a FG warehouse locations.
Tasks:
1- The inventory keeper of the warehouse location that receives the request will register a reservation record that includes the item, quantity, locator; request number allocated for and may be sales order number. Inventory keeper selects locator.
This systematic reservation prevents the reserved quantity to be allocated to or transacted for any other request. This is a very important principle implemented by system and appropriate culture for that must be tuned in the company (systematic).
Concerned role:
Inventory keeper of FG warehouse
2- Reserved items must get ready for picking
This may include shifting item to a specific physical location or packing them depend on the nature of item. (Non-systematic)
Concerned role:
Inventory keeper & worker of FG
3- Picking items
The reserved prepared items are picked from their warehouse location and nominated locators at this step. This picking may be either transferring them to a staging location or directly loading items to vehicles.
Vehicles will come from shipping department and are loaded by warehouse workers. Vehicles may belong to shipping department of our company or to customer or shipping agent. (Non-systematic)
Concerned role:
Worker of FG warehouse & inventory keeper
4- Once task 3 is done, a loading document or let us say pick from warehouse should be created and registered in system. This document indicates the items requested are picked from warehouse to be shipped to the customer. All related information like item number, qty, location, locator, lot, serial, date, request number, sales order number, etc must be showed on this document. Once document is saved the inventory will be reduced and shipped quantity will be increased.
Concerned role:
Inventory keeper of FG warehouse
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