Alternate Pick Suggestions

You can create alternate pick suggestions if you do not agree with the system's suggestions for picking locations. You create alternate suggestions by running a version of the Location Selection Driver program. You set the Resuggest Requests processing option on the Resuggestions Tab and the appropriate data selection.

Creating alternate suggestions replaces any previous location suggestions. With alternate suggestions, you can access new inventory locations that you might have added since you created the first suggestions or new inventory that has become available in existing locations.

If you have not changed inventory locations in the warehouse, or the inventory levels have not changed and you want to create suggestions for locations that differ from previous suggested locations, you must change the picking instructions table or other setup information, such as Process Selection, Fixed Locations, Max or Min quantities/percentages, and so on. For example, you could change the picking instructions table to select a new pick zone or to use a different tiebreaker rule to select locations. If you do not change the picking instructions, the Location Selection Driver program suggests the same locations as in the previous suggestions.

When you run the Location Selection Driver program for resuggestions, the system can:

• Delete existing pick suggestions for the request and resets the commitments caused by or related to the original suggestions in the Item Location (F41021), Location Detail Information (F4602), and License Plate Item Commitments (F46L12) files.

• Reset each request's status in the F4600

• Create alternate picking location suggestions

• Print audit reports

You control which functions the system performs by setting processing options in the Location Selection Driver program. For interactive and batch methods, the system picks the License Plates LPN first, then loose items and lastly, items of an LPN.