After the reception of the loading units, you have to move the loading units to the warehouse locations for your products to become available for picking. PULPO WMS automatically create a movement task for each incoming goods sequence.
Movement tasks can be accepted as is, or split in the web app.
Handling movement tasks in the web app
The new tab "Packing information" in the movement tasks details provides information about the loading units included in the movement task and their contents.
Like in regular movement tasks, you can assign a picker, split a task, merge several of them, or cancel selected tasks.
Splitting movement tasks
If you decide to split a loading unit movement task, PULPO offers you several options for splitting:
Splitting by loading unit
Splitting by tag
Splitting by destination
Splitting the tasks by loading unit creates a set of movement tasks, each containing one loading unit only.
Splitting by tag allows you to select all loading units with a certain tag and assign them to a movement task.
Splitting by destination groups the loading units by the destination location and assigns them to a single movement task pointing to the same location. The quantity of the tasks will be equal to the quantity of the destination locations.
A callout with a number on top shows the number of unassigned loading units. You can finish splitting once all the items are assigned to the replenishments.
Clicking the ">>" symbol allows to you immediately assign the loading unit to the selected replenishment.
Once you split, the movement tasks will appear in the system and the mobile app.
Batching movement tasks
After selecting 2 or more movement tasks, you can batch them into a single movement task. A new task will be created, and the previous tasks will be removed.
A newly created task will get the type "Lot" and can be split as explained above.
Movement tasks in the mobile app
After opening a list of the movement tasks in the mobile app, you can swipe any of them to the right to see the contents of the task.
Before accepting a task, you can remove loading units of the task by swiping them to the left. A new movement task will be created for the removed loading units.
An important change compared to the regular movements is that the user is not moving the products one by one but the loading unit with all their contents at once.
In the collection screen, you see the list of the loading units to be collected. After scanning the location, you start scanning the loading units.
Once all the items are scanned, the app shows the destination location under each loading unit. Like in regular movements, you can click 3 dots and change the destination location for a loading unit.
Once done, the app will build an optimal route to store all the items and guide you around the warehouse to store the loading units.
Depending on the setting, the loading units can be itemized automatically after the storage or stored as full loading units.