Redwood: Suggest a Put-Away Location for Goods

Warehouses with high inventory turnover often store their goods dynamically, which means that no single item has a static put-away location. Even in warehouses with static storage locations, there are times when the primary put away location becomes full, and items need to be put away to an alternate storage location. In either situation, you need the ability to specify the primary location where a warehouse operator should look to put goods away into storage and let the application suggest alternate storage locations if the primary location is full.

You can now configure a priority order as to how the application determines the primary put-away location for items, including new options that don't rely on item transaction defaults. Additionally, your warehouse operators can view and select alternate storage locations if the primary storage location is full.

The Suggest Put-Away Location feature is available only on a Mobile Put Away page, as suggestions are needed when warehouse operators are actively placing goods into storage. The Desktop, also known as Manager Put Away page, is used for post put away tasks, where location suggestions are no longer necessary.

The Mobile Put Away Goods page now includes a Show Other Locations button. By default, the subinventory and locator with the highest priority from the Put Away Suggestions are shown.

Put Away Goods Panel Drawer

Put Away Goods Panel Drawer

If this location is full, you can tap the Show Other Locations to view and select from alternative suggested locations.

Show Other Put Away Locations

Show Other Put Away Locations

The Generate Cross-Dock and Put Away Suggestions scheduled process must be run to generate put away suggestions. Select the Regenerate Suggestions checkbox if you want to delete previous suggestions and generate new suggestions.

Generate Cross-Dock and Put Away Suggestions

Generate Cross-Dock and Put Away Suggestions

This feature provides you more control over how to determine the primary put away location for your goods as well as gives your users more insight into alternate put away locations if they find that the primary location isn't suitable.

Steps to Enable

Important: Before you set up Oracle Fusion Cloud Advanced Inventory Management, see the licensing and enablement information at the beginning of the Advanced Inventory Management section.

To enable put-away suggestions, you must configure the Advanced Inventory Parameters page. The Advanced Inventory Parameters setup task is available under the Advanced Inventory Management functional area. You must first enable the Advanced Inventory Management functional area for it to appear in the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering. 

Enable Advanced Inventory Management functional area

  1. Navigate to the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering.
  2. On the Setup: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management page, click Change Feature Opt In.
  3. On the Opt-In: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management page, select the Enable checkbox for Advanced Inventory Management functional area.

Enable Functional Area

Enable Functional Area

The Advanced Inventory Management functional area will appear directly below the Inventory Management functional area. To enable put away suggestions, click the Advanced Inventory Parameters task.

Setup Task: Advanced Inventory Parameters

Setup Task: Advanced Inventory Parameters

Configure Advanced Inventory Parameters

1. On the Advanced Inventory Parameters page, select the Enable put away suggestions checkbox. 

  • Select Priority 1 through Priority 4 in the desired order.
  • The options are: 
    • A specific subinventory and locator (item transaction defaults).  
    • Item subinventory and locator association.
    • A specific zone (defaulted from Item Category defined for Put Away activity of Zone definition).
    • Where on-hand already exists.

2. Click Save.

Enable Put Away Suggestions

Enable Put Away Suggestions

Tips And Considerations

  • Schedule the Generate Cross-Dock and Put Away Suggestions process to run as frequently as desired. 
  • To regenerate put away suggestions, select the Regenerate Suggestions checkbox, when submitting the Generate Cross-Dock and Put Away Suggestions scheduled process.
  • If a specific put away zone is defined in a Put Away Suggestion priority, ensure the item category is configured in the Zone definition.

Key Resources

  • Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Using Receiving guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these duty roles can access this feature:

  • Put Away Goods Using Responsive Receiving Duty (ORA_RCV_PUT_AWAY_GOODS_PWA_DUTY)
  • Put Away Management Duty (ORA_RCV_PUT_AWAY_MANAGEMENT_DUTY)
  • Receiving Management Duty (ORA_RCV_RECEIVING_MANAGEMENT_DUTY)

These duty roles were available prior to this update.

To set up this feature, you'll need a configured job role that contains this new duty role, which is not assigned to any predefined job roles:

  • Advanced Inventory Management Administration Duty (ORA_INV_ADVANCED_INVENTORY_MANAGEMENT_ADMINISTRATION_DUTY)

This duty role is new in this update.