One of your ideas has been delivered from your suggestion.Support Direct Allocation of Pallets

The Direct Allocation transaction is now enhanced to support Pallet-level handling, enabling faster and more efficient order fulfilment. This upgrade will allow you to allocate, pack, and ship pallets as a whole, reducing the need to break them open. These updates to RF Direct Allocation (rf.outbound.cwrfdirectallocation) and API transactions, will results in a streamlined and advanced order fulfilment process for customers.

  • The RF Direct Allocation transaction now prompts both "Pallet/LPN", instead of just LPN, after scanning an order. On scanning a Pallet, the system performs the necessary validations against the Pallet, and after passing these validations, the system will directly allocate and pack the Pallet against the order

NOTE: The system does not allow partial allocation of a Pallet. You can continue to scan the LPN that is linked to a Pallet, where an existing behaviour of the system of  depalletizing and processing the LPN will be retained.

  • The enhancement continues to honor the following existing parameters:
    • Auto-load: Loads an entire Pallet without de-palletizing, when set to "Yes".
    • Reuse-LPN: Generates OBLPN number, when set to "No".
    • Post-pack-task-type and dest-task-zone: Supports Pallet handling.
  • Load assignment and Manifesting logic for Pallets: When a pallet is packed through Direct allocation, the system processes the Pallet for Load Assignment/Assignment to Manifest logic, depending on the following configurations
    • Pallet is assigned to load when the following configurations is set to Yes (ASSIGN_LOAD_WHEN_PACKED and ASSIGN_LOAD_WHEN_CREATED).
    • Pallet is assigned to Manifest when the following configurations are set  (PACKING_ROUTING_MODE and ShipVia on Order).
    • Auto-load configuration:
      • "Yes": loads entire pallet without de-palletizing the LPNs
      • "No": does not auto-load
    • If Post-pack task type is configured:
      • The system checks if load assignment/manifesting is configured in post-packing program of the task type description and will perform these operations after the post packing updates are done for the Pallet.

NOTE: The system displays a warning, if any LPN on the pallet fails to be assigned to load or manifest.

SUPPORT PALLET HANDLING IN DIRECT ALLOCATION VIA API

A new API for direct allocation enables the allocation and packing of an Outbound (OB) pallet from an Inbound (IB) pallet. The API call takes the Pallet and Order number as input, and packs an entire pallet against the specified order. This streamlines faster and more efficient order fulfilment process.

Request URL

POST ...wms/lgfapi/v10/entity/pallet/direct_allocation/

For more information on the API’s parameter and payload, refer to REST API Guide.

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