Note: You cannot monitor progress for individual waves in the Wave Dashboard window. Use the Wave Dashboard window to search for waves by wave number or other criteria, view high-level summary information about waves, monitor all picking activity in a warehouse, view automatic and recurring requests, and view the wave status for specific dates. Use the Wave Workbench window to view order and order line level details, track progress of orders in the warehouse, manage tasks, review labor planning criteria, and manage exceptions. You view a wave (and related wave activity) before and after it is released: When you release the wave, the pick release process is initiated and material is allocated to orders. Multiple people can plan waves, and orders can be included in multiple waves during the planning process. A warehouse manager can plan a wave multiple times. You can also add and remove lines from a wave during the planning phase if the fill rate or labor requirements do not match your expectation or for any other reason. You can select the default actions to occur when unexpected events happen, for example, when stock is not available to fulfill orders. Planning the wave involves determining the item availability and labor requirements for the wave. For example, you can create a wave that enables you to pick all orders with a dock appointment within the next x number of hours, all UPS orders, or all high priority orders. When you create a wave, you select the criteria that determines the orders to include in the wave. The wave planning process consists of the following steps: Monitor and correct exceptions that may occur (exception handling).

Schedule the entire wave planning process to be run at certain intervals based on specified criteria. Using wave planning, you can:Ĭreate, plan, and release a wave in one step or multiple steps. Wave planning provides real-time monitoring and exception reporting and flexibility during the order fulfillment process. Warehouse planning includes wave planning which enables you to group orders and lines for better visibility and control during order fulfillment. Monitoring the progress of the orders during order fulfillment. Performing labor planning to fulfill orders. Selecting and grouping orders for fulfillment.Ĭhecking material availability for fulfillment. Warehouse managers use warehouse planning to group and plan the work in a warehouse. 12/22 Wave Planning Overview of Wave Planning

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