Picking to Stage

If you do not ship picked goods right away and you are integrating with a third-party electronic data collection system, you can pick to stage (transfer the picked material to a staging location, where it remains until you are ready to ship it). PeopleSoft Inventory's electronic data collection transactions enable you to monitor such material in the system.

The pick to stage process consists of the following steps:

  1. Provided that you have completed the picking setup procedures for electronic data collection systems, the Order Release Request process creates a picking extract file for the bar code partner. Either the Make Suggestions action or the Create Allocations action must be used.

  2. As you physically pick stock, you record feedback using an electronic data collection device.

  3. The third-party system sends two transactions to PeopleSoft: a bin-to-bin transfer from the storage location to the staging area; and a picking transaction from the staging area, with the completion flag set to zero.

  4. When the material is ready to ship, the electronic data collection partner sends a Complete Pick Batch transaction, which triggers the completion of the picking transaction from the staging area.

  5. Once the picking transactions are complete, you use the Shipping/Issues component to ship the material.

Picked material that has been transferred to the staging location is included in the business unit's quantity on hand for replenishment and planning purposes. This material is not, however, available to appear on subsequent pick batch IDs unless you selected the Available to Pick Plan option on the Default Ship Staging Location page. If the Available to Pick Plan option is not active, you can still select the staging location on the Material Picking Feedback page.

Note: If your environment includes inventory transfer transactions from electronic data collection systems, such as keyboard wedges or the Inventory Transfer EIP, then you should verify that the Inventory Transfers process (IN_TRANSFER) has been run before processing any inventory picking transactions. Processing your picking data before the completion of any pending bin-to-bin transfer transactions can drive quantity in the material storage location negative and generate errors.