Essential Product Knowledge
The ‘Wave Picking’ section of the V5 Control Center works in conjunction with ‘Sales Orders’ and ‘Locations’ to allow for the efficient picking and packing of items for sales orders. It allows multiple order that contain the same or similar products to be grouped together, so instead of picking one order after the other, the WMS operator will be guided around the warehouse in the most efficient manner to pick multiple orders at once. This panel relates to B2C wave picking. if you are using B2B wave picking, see our wave picking module guide.
The ‘Wave Picking’ section is found under the ‘Ordering’ header of Control Center.
This section is made up of 4 panels:
The number assigned to the wave. This is automatically created by the system but can be edited here. Must be unique.
The live status of the wave. This could be:
Waves can be assigned to a specific operator here or left blank to allow for any WMS operator to process it.
The date the wave was created. This cannot be changed.
Populated once the wave has been processed in WMS, this also cannot be changed.
All fields here are populated from ‘Sales Orders’ when the order is created and cannot be edited here
Sales order number.
The name of the customer receiving the order.
The date when the order will be delivered.
Sales order reference number (buyer purchasing reference for example).
The status of the sales order. This is set in the ‘Sales Order’ screen (unless the order is ‘Created’ in which case it will not appear here). These are:
Any additional instructions for this order that were entered when the order was created will be visible here. These will be displayed to the WMS operator when beginning the picking process, and can be accessed during via the info button on the main screen.
The user/operator who created the sales order.
The date and timestamp of when the order was created.
The address the order will be delivered to.
The address the order will be invoiced to.
Automatically generated shipper number.
Shows the first item line of the order, showing the commodity code and weight. This makes it easier to differentiate multiple orders to the same customer.
Shows the broker to be used to help fulfil the order.
Shows the carrier to be used to deliver the order. Both of these can be set up in ‘Order Info’.
FOB if required/entered against the sales order. This can then be printed on a Bill of Landing and other shipping documents.
Any additional freight terms entered against this order will appear here.
A specified delivery address if the user is not fully utilizing the customer addresses table. This can be integrated from ERP or hand inputted when creating the order.
The billing/invoice address of the carrier being used to deliver this order.
The seal number assigned to the order during the shipping process.
The trailer number, noted when the order is been shipped in WMS. Both this and ‘Seal #’ will be populated on arrival of the trailer and are not pre-assignable.
The commodity code of the item selected for picking, populated from ‘Commodities’.
As above, this is the description of the commodity.
Pulled from the sales order, this is the quantity of the commodity set to be sold.
As above, the agreed upon price that the customer will pay for the commodity (per unit).
Shows any custom notes that were added when the sales order was originally created.
The quantity of the commodity scheduled for picking (i.e. not yet picked).
The quantity of the commodity that has been picked.
Combined commodity code and description to identify the goods to be sold.
The lot number that was used to fulfil the order.
The quantity from that lot that has been used.
The user/operator who picked that lot.
Time & date when that lot was picked.
Descriptive field to denote the state of the lot. This could be:
The supplier lot assigned to the finished good, this can often be a custom batch number entry.
The LPN of the pallet that was used to pack the item.