Considerations for Demand Selection
Demand selection criteria impact the way lines are selected for picking.
Before selecting demand selection criteria, consider:
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Your organization's preferred criteria based on details pertaining to sales order, requested and scheduled dates, and item
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Your organization's preferred criteria for order fulfillment and processing
Sales Order, Requested and Scheduled Dates, and Item Details
Before selecting the sales order, requested and scheduled dates, and item details, you must plan how your organization will create a pick wave.
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Which subinventory will you use?
Your choice of subinventory will result in the selection of those order lines that are planned to be sourced from the specified subinventory. The source subinventory is specified for the order lines during the sales order creation stage.
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Which sales order will you select?
Determine if the shipment lines to be pick released are for a specific sales order.
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Which customer will you select?
Determine if the shipment lines to be pick released are for a specific customer.
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Which shipment set will you select?
If your organization groups order lines within a sales order to ship together based on customer specifications, then those sets of lines are shipped together in the same shipment. You can select the appropriate shipment set number from where the order lines will be selected.
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Which destination type will you select?
Determine if the shipment lines to be pick released are for a specific geography, zone, or ship-to location.
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What are the specified date ranges?
Determine the from and to scheduled ship dates and from and to requested ship dates.
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What item details will you specify?
Consider if you are creating a pick wave for a specific item. If yes, then specify the catalog and category name along with the item name and description.
Shipping Details
The selected shipping method will enable selection of those order lines that are planned for shipping using the specified shipping method.