On 30 May 17:21, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: > 2015-05-30 10:04 GMT+02:00 Cédric Krier <[email protected]>: > > On 30 May 09:30, Christophe (net) wrote: > >> >In the all process, I see no actual needs to make assignation if you > >> >have a good warehouse argonisation (which is required with such > >> >numbers). > >> >Assignation is there to tell the user where to pick the product, you can > >> >skip this by knowing in advance where to pick them. (and also avoid user > >> >conflict) > >> > > >> > >> I do not agree with this last statement, especially if you have a large > >> warehouse, you must specified where is the products to be prepared. In > >> addition, the order picker may come from temporary agency, they do not know > >> the warehouse. Finally, inventory turnover may require that the location is > >> provided to the preparer. > > > > It is a tradeoff that each companies must do. > > You can have fixed place for each product. > > > > Or another solution for such problem is to make a proposal to the user > > where to pick the product (without assignation) but as soon as he pick a > > product it must register it in the system and if the product is no more > > there, the user must ask for a new location. > > Yet you need assignation. > > Otherwise two concurrent workers working on different shipments would > be asked to go to the same location when one may pick up the last > units. That's why assignation is important on many cases.
Yes this can happen but again it is a tradeoff between performance and such error. > Assignation reserves that unit for one of the shipments so it's pretty > sure the unit will be there when the worker arrives. *pretty* sure so it is not a silver bullet and other method could be used depending of the needs and the tradeoff the company is willing to do. You can also just have assignation move per move from within the warehouse. There are plenty way of working no one is the only good one, it depends on each context. -- Cédric Krier - B2CK SPRL Email/Jabber: [email protected] Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 Website: http://www.b2ck.com/
