Performing Zone Picking in RF

Zone picking is convenient if any of the following are true:

Your warehouse is large and it would be more efficient for your operators to pick product from their defined area only.
Your warehouse has areas with equipment restrictions, limiting who can pick product in the area.
Your warehouse's orders are large and you want the system to assist you in breaking the order into more manageable picks.

Zone picking adds a layer of complexity to the picking process, and if it is used where it is not needed, Zone picking can make the picking process inefficient.

If you decide to use Zone picking, segment your warehouse into zones. When you receive large orders that spread across multiple zones, use pick groups assigned to the different zones to pick the order.

When you select orders for Zone picking, only your group's picks display in the Pick Select screen. If there are several operators within your group and more than one operator is required to pick the part of the order within your area, do one of the following:

Work under one PID to be able to select the same order to pick.
For manifest picks, set the pick size in Zone Maintenance to break a large pick into multiple picks.

Use the Pick In Process and Pick Select screens to pick the items in your pick group.

To pick an order by zone:

From the Whse Mgt > RF Applications menu, select Picking to display the Pick In Process screen.
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.

Use the Slct hot key to choose an order to pick on the Pick Select screen.
In the Pick Group field, edit the pick group ID to indicate the warehouse area from which to pick, as necessary. The system enters your pick group, as defined in User Maintenance.

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

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

Press Esc to return to the Pick In Process screen.
Pick the items in your pick group.
After picking the items in your pick group, stage your tote.

Note: If the RF Allow Staging Of Individual Totes control maintenance record is set to Y, you can stage the tote at any point while you are picking the order. For example, if the tote becomes full before you have picked all items on the order, you can stage the tote and make it available for auditing. You can then continue picking the rest of the order. If this control maintenance record is set to N, you must wait until you have picked the entire order or the entire part of the order assigned to your pick group before staging the tote.

Press Esc to save updates and exit the screen.