Inbound Putaway Process
After products have been received and passed a quality inspection, they need to be stored so that you can find them when you need them. This process is called putaway. The spot where you store a particular product is called a location. One section of a warehouse might have small locations for light items; another area may have large locations on the floor for heavy items.
After products have been received and passed a quality inspection, they need to be stored so that you can find them when you need them. This process is called putaway. The spot where you store a particular product is called a location. One section of a warehouse might have small locations for light items; another area may have large locations on the floor for heavy items. This type of division is called slotting. To minimize the distances that people will travel, distribution centers should be laid out so that the products shipped most frequently are closer at hand and those shipped less often are farther away.
Warehouse put-away
The inbound material is first received at the default receipt location as specified during the warehouse layout. The next step is for the warehouse worker to move the registered quantities from the receiving location to a regular storage location. Warehouse operations typically require that the quantities be moved from the receiving dock to the regular warehouse storage, so that the subsequent picking processes can occur. This is known as put-away process and it refers to all the processes that happen between receiving goods from vendors and having them all put away into their assigned places. Having a put-away process simplifies the tracking of storing items, reduces the risk of misplacing or losing items, and keeps your warehouse clean and organized.
Inventory Status is Updated
Inventory should be considered available or unavailable for certain operations. For example, inventory should be unavailable for orders until putaway is complete. As soon as putaway is complete, the inventory should become available for orders automatically, without any intervention from users.
To facilitate this tracking, different Inventory Statuses are assigned to inventory. The Inventory Status of the inventory changes at different stages like when inventory is received, when inventory is awaiting inspection, when inventory is moved to storage etc. Inventory Statuses can also be associated with zones, for example, when product moves to QC zone, its Inventory Status changes to the Inventory Status associated with the QC zone, which may indicate that the product is undergoing QC. Items are available for sale After the inbound process is completed, items become available for sales and other outbound and internal operations.
Move Request
Move requests are created to ensure that inventory is moved from one to location to another, within a warehouse, in an automated manner. These are not representative of transfers between warehouses, which are actual shipments.
Slotting Process
Warehouses re-slot forward pick zones every season to utilize the most cost-effective and efficient locations to store inventory. Slotting is performed based on the velocity of the items. Slotting ensures that items with highest velocity are placed in locations belonging to the Golden zone. Locations in the Golden zone are easily accessible. Therefore, the picking efficiency of the picker is increased when picking inventory in this zone.
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