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4.21. Pickfaces and Replenishments setup

In a large, busy warehouse it is sometimes useful to designate some shelf locations as pickfaces. These locations are easily accessible for pickers, usually at floor level or the next level up in the racking. These pickfaces are then replenished from other, harder to reach locations somewhere in the warehouse.

Typically, these replenishments take place at a time when the activity does not get in the way of the busy pickers; at the beginning of the day or lunch time. A forklift driver will fetch the stock from the bulk location and place it in or near the pickface so that others can place it or open the cartons as necessary.

Deciding which locations to replenish when can be hard to keep track of so mSupply has functionality to help and this is what is described in this section. There is quite a lot of setup involved so that's detailed on this page. The next page (4.23. Pickfaces and Replenishments) describes the actual functionality and how you use it.

The first thing you need to do is tell mSupply which locations can be used as pickfaces and which can be used to take bulk stock from to replenish them.

If the location doesn't exist in your system create it, if it does then open it for editing (see 4.06. Stock locations and location types for details). You will see this window:

Click on the Replenishment location type drop down list and select the type this location will be:

  • None: The default for all locations and means that the location won't be selectable as a pickface and won't take part in replenishments.
  • Pickface: means that this location can be selected as a pickface for an item and can be replenished.
  • Bulk: means this location stores bulk stock that can be used to replenish pickfaces.

When you have finished assigning the replenishment typem click on the OK or OK & Next button to save the changes. Repeat this process for all the locations that will be used as pickfaces or that will hold bulk stock that can be used to replenish the pickfaces.

Note that mSupply will only use stock in locations with a replenishment type of Bulk to replenish pickface locations. It is therefore possible to control which stock mSupply will use in replenishments - useful if you have some stock that is reserved for other purposes.

The next step is to assign pickfaces to items. To do this, find the item you want to set a pickface for and pen its details window (see 4.01. About items for details). Then click on the storage tab:



  • Last modified: 2020/10/24 16:39
  • by Gary Willetts