Determine Candidate Destination Locations Based on Proximity Definition

With release 25A, we’re adding a new flavor to wave-based replenishment by considering the proximity between your source and destination locations.

Your warehouse may have source Reserve Locations and candidate Destination (Active) Locations in the same aisle, and, perhaps in the same bay, too. But using conventional replenishment logic, destination locations of relatively lesser proximity could also be determined.

Here, replenishment can be optimized to consider the closer destination location, thereby resulting in lower turnaround times. To bring you this new advantage, we’ve introduced a new flag in the Replenishment Rules UI called “proximity replenishment”. By enabling this flag, you can set the proximity radius (using positive integer values, i.e, 0, 1, 2…). For this logic of proximity definition to work, your bay value needs to be defined only as numerical value as per the standard format: AREA-AISLE-BAY-LEVEL-POSITION.

When you specify a proximity radius value (let's say 5), the system searches for candidate destination locations between specified radial number of bays (i.e, +5 bays as well as -5 bays from the source location) in the same aisle. However, for the scenarios where there are two candidate Source-Destination Location matches within the same proximity radius, WMS gives precedence to the logic of FEFO > FIFO > LIFO to perform the replenishment. With this feature, WMS will search for candidate destination locations in the same aisle, based on the proximity radius values you have entered. So now, you can target the closest destination location for replenishment.

NOTE:

  • When you enable the Proximity Replenishment flag, other Allocation Methods (such as FIFO, FEFO, LIFO, Location Sequence etc.) will not be considered.

  • By default, the Proximity Replenishment flag is unchecked (i.e, the behavior condition is NO). Here, the system follows the conventional logic in performing replenishment, as per the allocation methods defined in the Wave Template.

  • The process of determining suitable destination locations based on the proximity radius is limited to the bays in the same aisle. So, if the proximity radius logic is not satisfied, the system will not continue the search for destination locations in the next aisle.

Steps to Enable

  1. Go to the Replenish Template UI and click the Replenishment Rules button.
  2. Select your desired Replenishment Rule and open the Create/Edit/Delete pane.
  3. Click to select the Proximity Replenishment flag.
  4. Enter the desired value in the Proximity Radius field.