Refill Putaway Zones

Explanation

Use this activity to trigger automatic refill based on the putaway zone ranking setup for parts on this site. The 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 “pickzone”, this evaluation will identify if there could be a refill done from a “bufferzone” to that pickzone. If that is the case, there will automatically be transport task lines created to handle that move.

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 onhand on the best available locations.

There are three different settings that can be used:

• No Automatic Refill - An optimization/refill job is not triggered.
• Refill from Putaway zones - An optimization job is triggered for parts but it will only consider moving parts that are within the defined putaway zones for the part. If a part is moved “outside” all defined putaway zones, it will stay there.
• Refill from All locations - An optimization job is triggered for parts but 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.
  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 that 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.