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As with receiving, PowerHouse provides a wide range of options for the determination of put-away
locations and delivering the product to those locations. Multiple rules can be set up by the
warehouse manager to determine how the system determines the best location for the product and
different rules can be used for the items received from a single receipt, into a single receiving
location or even on a single pallet.
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Put-away rules begin by examining the received product to determine if a hold was placed on the
item, how much was received and whether there are any special factors to be considered (such as
whether the item requires a refrigerated location). From there, it will begin looking at the
types of locations that you have configured for use based on the receiving factors. This process
allows for a great deal of flexibility; for instance, you can configure the system to direct
product to a case or piece storage location if less than half a pallet of the product was
received, or to a pallet storage location if more than half a pallet came in, and augmenting
that with an instruction to put the product in a bulk storage area if there are no locations
available in the pallet area.
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The system also provides for subdivisions within a location type to more precisely direct
product to the best location. These subdivisions, called Putaway Classes allow the system
to treat pallet racks and case locations the same whether they are in a freezer, a secure
cage or on the general floor, while still directing high-risk product to the cage and frozen
product to the freezer. It also provides a method for directing product to a backup group
of locations of the same location type in the event that the freezer or cage is full.
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You can also specify if you want the product to be delivered to an assigned location, an empty
location, to put the product into a location that already has that item in it, or to mix it in
with different items. If you are using lots, serial numbers, and/or tracking dates, you can
configure the rules to allow or prevent mixing of different lots and dates, or even specify a
number of 'tolerance days', where the system will merge two different dates together if they
are within x number of days of each other.
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Once the system has determined the best location to deliver the product to, an entry will be
made in the Work Pool from which it will be displayed on
the RF unit of the next worker who is set up to do put-away work tasks. The system will direct
the worker to the receiving area to retrieve the pallet and will then direct them to the
appropriate destination location. If the worker needs to put the pallet down in some place other
than the final destination (for instance: a gas powered fork truck staging a pallet at the
beginning of an aisle set up for narrow-aisle, wire guided vehicles), the system will record the
staging location as the new retrieval location and will direct another user to pick up the pallet
and complete the task.
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The system will always prompt the user to scan or enter in the location the pallet was delivered
to. If the user's input does not match the location in the work task record, the user will be
warned and they will be able to correct their mistake.
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