WMS and Order

Management: Making It
All Work Together

Eric Fuhrman
Senior Principal Consultant
DARC Corporation
Agenda
• Introduction
• Walk through shipping process
– Pick Release
– Picking
– LPNs
– Staging, Ship Confirm
• Q&A
Shipping Before and After WMS
• Pick Release
– Before WMS and after, release sales
orders in the Release Sales Order window
or by SRS, but there are additional fields to
watch.
Pick Release Options

Plan
Tasks
Option
Pick Release Tasks
• “Plan Tasks” option has been added for
WMS organizations, and controls
whether tasks are released manually in
the WMS control board (more on that
later)
Shipping Before and After WMS
• Picking
– Before WMS, Pick sheets printed & Pick
Confirm done automatically or after pick
completed.
– After WMS, Pick is managed line by line by
Tasks. Picking is done in Mobile Supply
Chain Application, and Pick Confirm is
done by dropping items in Staging.
Pick Methods
• Picks can be by Order Pick, Zone Pick
or Bulk Pick
• Can also Pick by LPN with WMS
Cartonization
• Tasks (individual lines) are tracked by
WMS and can be assigned in
Warehouse Control Board
Pick Slips and Labeling
• Pick slips are generally not printed in a
WMS environment.
• Label printing is driven by a rules
engine from WMS
• Labeling requirements should be
outlined early in the WMS
implementation
Picking Rules
• Picking Rules can be set up that control
the selection of which inventory locator
to pick from.
• Use care when defining pick/putaway
rules – if the rules engine fails to find a
matching locator, the order will
backorder even if inventory is available.
Shipping Before and After WMS
• License Plate Numbers (LPNs)
– Before WMS, LPNs assigned manually in
shipping process, not used in picking
– After WMS, LPNs are used throughout the
picking and shipping process, as well as
receiving and inventory
Shipping Before and After WMS
• Staging & Ship Confirm
– Before WMS, Staging Subinventory &
Locator specified manually, Ship Confirm is
generally manual
– After WMS, additional options for Staging
lanes, shipping lanes and Ship confirm
process are available
Staging Areas
• Staging locators can be used to divide
outgoing shipments for processing
• Staging lanes can also be integrated
with outgoing shipping schedules and
Oracle Transportation Management
Staging Areas
• LPNs & Deliveries are assigned to
staging locators by Put-Away rules
assigned to the Sales Order Pick
transaction
Additional Ship Confirm Options
• In addition to the Ship Confirm options
in Shipping Execution, WMS adds a
delivery-based Ship Confirm in MSCA
and a Ship by LPN option
Questions