Sort and Receive

To support direct to consumer business, warehouses are adopting strategies to fulfill orders as quickly as possible. The Sort and Receive Option can help you meet the growing demands of fulfilling orders raised online by end customers.

Typically, Sort and Receive is done before Receiving and Receive and Sort (inbound sorting is done after receipt). Sort and Receive is typically used to separate contents of an LPN in a Shipment by sku, Purchase Order (PO), or some special criteria. The Sort and Receive option helps you to scan each unit of the ASN and determine how to sort the item based on Rules Configured. You can examine each item and sort it according to the configurable rules to different totes. You also get an opportunity to mark the item being received as damaged or not.

Sort and Receive Process

Once inventory is physically unloaded, floor users sort individual skus into respective totes (Inbound LPNs) based on user-defined rules. Floor users can use the RF Option to sort and receive each individual unit of a Sku received into the warehouse. Floor users can get the advantage of receiving individual skus into separate totes simultaneously.

Let’s say you want to sort and receive inventory inside your warehouse. The following are the high-level steps you should follow:

  1. First, the Warehouse receives a sku level ASN from the host system or the Warehouse creates it in Oracle WMS Cloud.
  2. The warehouse gets ready to Sort and Receive Inventory.
  3. Use the RF Sort and Receive option to receive skus into different totes.
  4. Scan the Receiving Station, shipment, and SKU.
  5. If system is unable to figure out the appropriate shipment detail or if there is an ambiguity, the system prompts for Inventory Attributes, Batch Number or Expiry date to figure out the appropriate detail.
  6. Sort and Receive Rules are triggered to find the appropriate tote the SKU Needs to be placed into.
  7. If there is no tote available, create a new Tote/Inbound LPN.
  8. If there is a tote available, the system prompts for the tote.
  9. For the tote, the current inventory goes up by 1.
  10. Note: The inventory is fulfilled in a LPN based on the Break rule you create.
  11. Once the tote becomes full, end the tote and status of the Inbound LPN goes to “Received”, Inventory History Records are sent.