1. Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
  2. Picking Rules

Picking Rules

Picking rules enable you to define the criteria that determines how material is consumed. For example, LIFO, FIFO, Lot Ascending, Locator Ascending. After you create a picking rule, you can enable the rule for usage in various organizations.

In the Setup and Maintenance work area, use the Manage Picking Rules task to set up your picking rules:

  • Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management

  • Functional Area: Inventory Management

  • Task: Manage Picking Rules

A group of picking rules with different criteria can address the various needs of consuming material in an organization. This criteria determines how material should be consumed:

  • Material restriction

  • Allow partial picking

  • Material sort

Material Restriction

The material restriction criteria you must specify include:

  • Shelf Life Days: Indicates the minimum number of days prior to expiry that the material can be consumed.

    For example, if an item with an expiration date of June 30 is assigned to a picking rule that dictates a 60-day shelf life restriction, then that item must be picked no later than May 1, which is 60 days before its expiration date.

  • Enforce Single Lot: The enforcement of a single lot for the specific picking rule.

    If not, multiple lots may be picked.

Allow Partial Picking

Enables you to specify if the demand line can be partially picked if the total quantity for the order lines isn't available. For example, the requested quantity is 100 and the quantity available using the picking rule is 60. In this case, allow partial picking determines if the available quantity of 60 is picked or nothing is picked at all.

Material Sort

The sort attributes that you can assign priorities to are Lot, Locator, Subinventory, and Revision. You can have only one priority based on a sort attribute and type such as Locator Ascending, Locator Descending, Revision Ascending, or Revision Descending. For example, if you assign the sort attribute and type Lot Ascending to priority 1, then you can't assign the same sort attribute to another priority in the same picking rule regardless of the sort type being Ascending or Descending.