Selecting Orders to Pick in RF

The RF Warehouse Management system sends orders to the Pick Select screen and Warehouse In Process queues rather than printing a picking ticket. To select orders to pick, access the RF system's Pick Select screen.

Note: If you are managing cut products, see Handling Cut Products Using RF.

Using your RF gun, select one or multiple orders to pick. When you display the Pick Select screen, enter the pick group. You can display all picks by entering All.   

The orders from the queue display by pick groups. The order you select to pick may be a full or partial order depending on whether the order is spread across multiple pick groups.

For example, if an order needs to be picked and the products on the order are in pick groups A, B, and C, the system lists each pick group as a separate pick.

If you want a pick that crosses multiple zones to be combined into one pick, such as orders placed at the counter, define the ship via containing the pick as a one-pick ship via. Using the example above, if you define the ship via for that order as a one-pick ship via, the order displays as a pick on one line only and with a pick group of multi-zone (represented by an asterisk *). On the Pick Select screen, enter an asterisk (*) in the Pick Group field to view all multi-zone picks.

If ship via priorities are set in Ship Via Priority Maintenance, the system displays all orders in the queue based on this sequence. Ship via sorting priorities can also be defined in the RF Pick Selection Sort control maintenance record.

Three instances can occur which make it unnecessary for you to select an order from the Pick Select screen:

To select an order to pick from the Pick Select screen:

  1. From the Warehouse Management > RF Applications > RF Main Menu, select Picking to display the Pick In Process screen.

Note: If prompted, log on to the character-based system.

  1. In the Br field, edit the branch for which you are picking, if necessary.

The system displays "No Picks Queued" on the screen if you have not already been assigned or selected an order to pick.

  1. Use the Slct hot key to choose an order to pick on the Pick Select screen.

  2. In the Pick Group field, enter one of the following if the correct pick group is not displayed:

Note: If you are selecting cuttable products, use the Scan Prd hot key to select all like products that need to be cut together.

The system enters your pick group, as defined in User Maintenance, as the default, and the following data:

Field

Description

Order Wt

If the Display Weight On RF Pick Select Screen Display Weight On RF Pick Select Screen control maintenance record is set to Y, the system displays the weight for the order on which the cursor is placed.

Total Wt

If the Display Weight On RF Pick Select Screen Display Weight On RF Pick Select Screen control maintenance record is set to Y, the system displays the accumulated weight of all orders in the displayed pick group or groups.

Orders

The orders queued to pick display in the following way:

ACME Canadian
2J S1353029 OT

With the displayed data representing the following:

  • Ship to name (ACME Canadian)

  • Number of picks in pick group (2), pick group (J), order ID (S1353029), ship via (OT).

Note: If an asterisk (*) appears as a pick group after the number of picks, then the pick is a complete order combined from multiple zones.

If the Auto Display Comments Attached To Line Items In RF Picking control maintenance record is set to Yes, then line item comments display after the scanning a product. If line item comments do not automatically display, users can use the hot key to display attached comments, if any.

Use the Auto Display Shipping Instructions In RF Picking and Auto Display Shipping Instructions In RF Staging control maintenance records to set shipping instructions to display. Users can access the shipping instructions with the Alt-I hot key which highlights when instructions are attached.

  1. If any items require Mill Test Report heat numbers, the RF Heat Number Entry screen displays. Enter the heat numbers and continue.

  2. Place the cursor next to each order you want to pick and press Enter. An asterisk (*) appears next to each line item you select to pick.

Note: Press Enter again to de-select the order. If you de-select an order after picking part of it, you still will  need to stage or close the tote.

  1. Press Esc to return to the Pick In Process screen.

To define a one-pick ship via and combine a full order across multiple zones:

  1. From the Maintenance > Branch menu, select Branch to display the Branch Maintenance window.

  2. In the Branch field, enter the branch for which you want to define the one-pick ship via.

  3. From the Maintenance menu, select Ship Via Branch Overrides to display the Ship Via Branch Overrides window.

  4. In the Ship Via field, select the ship via to define as a one-pick ship via.

  5. From the Additional menu, select Branch Ship Via Additional Data to display the Branch Shipvia Additional Data window.

  6. In the Combine All Zones In RF Pick Select field, select the check box to combine all cross-zone full orders assigned to the selected ship via into one pick.

  7. Save the updates and exit the window.

See Also:

Tasks Not Available in Solar

Picking Non-Manifest Orders Using RF

Performing Multiple-Operator Picking in RF

Performing Zone Picking in RF

RF Non-Manifest Picking and Staging Overview