Considerations for Pick Wave Release Rules

Pick wave release rule defines the criteria to determine the order lines to select for pick release and how they must be processed.

Before creating a pick wave release rule consider:

• How you select lines for picking in your organization?

• How do you process and fulfill the selected lines?

Select shipment lines

You must consider your organization's preference before selecting lines for picking. Before selecting the order, date, and item details you must plan how your organization creates a pick wave. Consider the following:

• Which subinventory to use?

  Your choice of subinventory results 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 in the sales order creation stage.

• Which sales order to select?

  Determine if the shipment lines to be pick released for a specific sales order.

• Which customer to select?

  Determine if the shipment lines to be pick released are for a specific customer.

• Which shipment set to select?

  If your organization groups order lines within a sales order based on customer specification to ship together, then those set 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.

• Which destination type to select?

  Determine if the shipment lines to be pick released for specific geography, zone, or ship-to location.

• What are specified date ranges?

  Determine the from and to scheduled ship dates and from and to requested ship dates.

• What item details to specify?

  Consider if you're creating a pick wave for a specific item. If yes, then specify the catalog and category name along with the item name and description.

• What shipping details to specify?

  Determine the preferred shipping method. The selected shipping method enables selection of those order lines that are planned for shipping using the specified shipping method.

Process shipment lines

You must consider your organization's preference for the way lines are fulfilled and processed. Consider the following:

• What pick-from subinventory and pick-from locator to specify?

  Consider your organization's usage of a specific subinventory and locator to pick material from.

  Note: This is an optional criterion.

• What staging subinventory and locator to specify?

  Consider your organization's usage of a specific subinventory and locator to finally deposit picked material.

• What release sequence rule to specify?

  Consider your organization's preference regarding the order in which lines are allocated during pick release.

• What pick slip grouping rule to specify?

  Consider your organization's preference regarding how lines grouped onto pick slips.

• What ship confirm rule to specify?

  Consider if your organization prefers shipments to be ship confirmed as part of pick release.

• Whether to automatically confirm pick slips?

• Whether to create shipments?

• Which shipment creation criteria to use?

  Consider your organization's criteria for creating shipments; if a shipment can be created across orders or must be created from within an order.

• Whether to automatically pack shipments?

• Whether to append existing shipments?

Set Pick Wave Release Rules

Consider the following items when you set pick wave release rule criteria on the Manage Pick Wave Rules page in the Setup and Maintenance work area.

Criteria	Description
Initial Destination	Select the initial destination for the shipment and shipment lines for the pick wave. The transportation shipment must have been planned in a transportation management system.
Trade Compliance Screening Method	Select one of the following values to set the default screening method for all pick wave releases: None. Shipment lines aren't screened for trade compliance. Pick confirm. You must submit shipment lines for trade compliance screening as soon as the lines are picked and staged. However, for outside processing and return to supplier order types, you must submit the shipment lines for trade compliance screening as soon as the lines are created. User initiated. You must manually submit shipment lines for trade compliance screening after the lines have been picked and staged.
Transportation Shipment	Select the transportation shipment that represents the shipment and corresponding shipment lines that are planned to ship together.