Refill Putaway Zones

Explanation

This activity is used to define how to refill parts on the specific site based on the putaway zone ranking. No refill of putaway zones means that no refill will be performed either automatically, manually or scheduled.

Note that the refill/optimization is using the same logic as for inventory putaway, meaning that it will evaluate putaway zones, storage requirements, standard putaway quantities etc. in order to store remaining parts on-hand on the best available locations.

There are three different settings that can be used:

• No Refill - No refill job is triggered.
• From Putaway Zones - When a refill job is triggered for parts it will only consider moving parts that are within the defined putaway zones for the part. If a part is moved outside of all defined putaway zones, it will stay there. To trigger the automatic refill job the Automatically Refill Putaway Zones check box must be selected on the Warehouse/General tab in the Warehouse Navigator window. Manual or scheduled jobs can be triggered by clicking on the Warehouse header in the Warehouse Navigator window and then click Refill All Putaway Zones.   
• From All Stock Locations - When a refill job is triggered for parts, it will try to optimize the storage for all locations according to the putaway zone ranking setup. It would be the optimal usage of locations according to putaway zones all the time. To trigger the automatic refill job the Automatically Refill Putaway Zones check box must be selected on the Warehouse/General tab in the Warehouse Navigator window. Manual or scheduled jobs can be triggered by clicking on the Warehouse header in the Warehouse Navigator window and then click Refill All Putaway Zones. Note that if you want to move parts outside the putaway zones you would need to use part availability control in order to make the parts stay at that location. Otherwise there will be transport tasks created to suggest a move back to a location within the putaway zone definition.

Note:

• Automatic refill of putaway zones means that whenever a part has a transaction, there will be an evaluation of the locations and the quantity stored at those locations to see if there could be an optimization done based on the putaway zone rankings setup for the part. If, for example, you issue a quantity of the part from the pick-zone, this evaluation will identify if there could be a refill done from a buffer-zone to that of a pick-zone. If that is the case, there will be transport task lines created automatically to handle that move.
• The default set on site for this parameter is inherited to all inventory parts, but for each part it is then possible to define exceptions.    

Prerequisites

A site must exist.

System Effects

The putaway zone refill functionality is defined.

Window

Site

Related Window Descriptions

Site/Extended Site Info/Inventory
Site/Extended Site Info/Inventory/General

Procedure

1. Open the Site window.
2. Search for the site for which you want to define settings for putaway zone refill.
3. On the Extended Site Info/Inventory/General tab, select the refill option you want to define for this site in the Putaway Zone Refill list.
4. Save the changes.