Pick Materials for Work Orders
Use the Pick Materials for Work Orders scheduled process to pick materials for discrete, process, and maintenance work orders. Through this program, you can select multiple work orders using various parameters and subsequently perform allocation and picking for the materials in Inventory.
This scheduled process can also be secured, so that only users who have the correct privilege are allowed to perform the picking action.
When to Use
You can schedule the process to more effectively control and move the materials to the shop floor for use in production. It initiates the movement of those materials from a common stock inventory to a shop floor supply subinventory to make them available to the work orders scheduled for production. If the value is provided for operation date attributes, it would be automatically incremented based on the schedule. The Pick Materials for Work Orders scheduled process creates a movement request to move your wanted materials to the appropriate shop floor location.
You can use picking from the Manage Work Orders page when there are only few orders, not more than 5 to 10 work orders. If there are common components across work orders, you should always use the scheduled process, with the Enable parallel check box deselected.
Privileges Required
- Pick Components for Work Orders WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_COMPONENT_PICKING_PRIV
- Print Movement Request Pick Slip Report INV_PRINT_MOVEMENT_REQUEST_PICK_SLIP_REPORT_PRIV
Specifications
Use these specifications when you run the scheduled process.
| Specification | Description |
|---|---|
| Job Type | Scheduled or as needed. |
| Frequency | As required. |
| Time of Day | Any time. |
| Duration | Varies depending on parameters selected and the volume of data to be processed. |
| Compatibility | It’s advisable to run a single instance of the program for a given organization to improve performance in the picking process. |
Parameters
| Parameter | Optional or Required | Description | Parameter Value | Special Combinations Required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organization | Required | Organizations (or Plants) for which the user wants to pick materials for work orders. | Default Org to that the user has access to. | None |
| Work Method | Required | Method of execution used for the work order. | If you have selected a manufacturing organization that has more than one work method, the work method is defaulted as All. | None |
| Work Order Type | Required | Type of work order based on the Work Method. |
If the work method is discrete manufacturing, you can choose the type of work order from this list of values. If the work method is process manufacturing, only the standard work order is available. If the work method is maintenance, you can choose the type of work order from these values:
|
None |
| Pick Materials For | Required | Option used to pick material for work orders. |
Select one of the following values to pick materials for multiple work order operations:
|
None |
| From Work Order | Optional | Defines the range of work orders to pick materials from a work order. | N/A | None |
| To Work Order | Optional | Defines the range of work orders to pick materials from a work order. | N/A | None |
| From Operation Sequence | Optional | Starting work order operation sequence. | N/A | None |
| To Operation Sequence | Optional | Ending work order operation sequence. | N/A | None |
| Work Center | Optional | Work Center of the Work Order Operations. | N/A | None |
| From Work Order Operation Start Date | Optional | Specify the From Work Order Operation Start Date to restrict the selection of the date range. | Date and time | Either Hours ahead or From Work Order Operation Start Date is required. |
| To Work Order Operation Start Date | Optional | Specify the To Work Order Operation Start Date to restrict the selection of the date range. | Date and time |
If From Work Order Operation Start Date is mentioned, then To Work Order Operation Start Date also must be mentioned. The maximum duration between the From Work Order Operation Start Date and To Work order Operation Start Date is 90 Days. |
| Hours Ahead | Optional | Number of hours ahead of current time until which you want materials to be picked. | The default value is 8. You can specify any value up to 500. | It's required to provide either Hours Ahead or From Work Order Operation Start Date. |
| Hours Behind | Optional | Number of hours behind the current time within which you want materials to be picked. | N/A | None |
| Pick Slip Grouping Rule | Required | The grouping rule enforces the basis your pick slips can be grouped together. | Defaulted from what's specified in the plant parameter. | None |
| Project Number | Optional | The project number associated with the work order. This parameter is available if the organization is tracked by project. | N/A | None |
| Task Number | Optional | The task number associated with the work order. This parameter is available if the organization is tracked by project. | N/A | None |
| Print Pick Slips | Optional | Use this option if you want to print the pick slip report. | Defaulted from what's specified in plant parameter. | None |
| Pick a work order only if all eligible materials are available | Optional | Use this option if you don't want partial picking for work orders. | The default is not selected. | None |
| Enable Parallel Processing | Optional | Use this option, to consider material picking for different work orders in parallel. | The default is selected. | None |
Troubleshooting Information
The parameter Enable Parallel Processing is used to pick materials for different work orders in parallel. By default this is selected, however you can deselect this option.
Don’t enable parallel processing or launch the Pick Materials for Work Orders process concurrently, when:
- The number of work order components is high.
- The same materials are picked for multiple work orders.
- You experience performance issues (the pick release program is running very slow).
- You see the number of Pick Release Worker jobs being spawned are greater than 10.
You need to enable the plant parameter to include pull components (components with a supply type of Operation pull, or Assembly pull), to consider them for picking.
If the maintenance work order component is asset tracked, or genealogy tracked and the supply type of component is push and subinventory is not provided, picking is skipped.
For manufacturing as well as maintenance work orders, the components with the following criteria will not be picked:
| Work Order Operation | Material | Supply Type | Subinventory | Picking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serialized | Serial Controlled | Push | Not specified | Component not considered for picking |
| Serialized | Non-serial Controlled | Push | Not specified | Component not considered for picking |