Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Picking
your delivery documents involve a great deal of picking, you have to find a way to
shorten picking of your fast-moving items or A items as much as possible and find
a way to pick for multiple deliveries simultaneously at a bin location. That way,
you can avoid having warehouse employees look for the same bin location several
times a day and pick the same material.
You can combine the overall picking items according to material and avoid sending
warehouse employees to look for the same items in the bin locations by combining
your delivery documents. The SAP system calls this combination wave picks.
In the SAP system, a wave pick is a bundle of delivery documents that are to be
picked. You can create the bundles several times a day and adjust them for scheduling
reasons. For example, you can combine all of the delivery documents that
are to be picked in the morning into a wave pick the previous evening. The next
morning, you would combine all of the delivery documents that are to be picked
in the afternoon.
You can create wave picks in the SAP system manually or automatically. Automatic
creation requires a corresponding time pattern. You also have the option to indicate
capacity limits and create upper or lower picking quantity limits.
If you want to create wave picks by time criteria, you need one of the following:
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Up-to-the-minute scheduling in the delivery document
Use of route schedules and a goods issue time
You must carefully determine if the use of up-to-the-minute scheduling in the
delivery document really makes sense in your company. No one really uses this
kind of scheduling. All of the processes in shipping are very dynamic and cannot
be scheduled to the minute.
The SAP system assigns a wave pick an identification number. The wave pick number
lets you control the subsequent processes. For example, you can print all of the
transfer orders that belong to a wave pick — if printing is triggered automatically.
You can use wave picks to trigger two-level picking — if you use full WM — that
confirms all of the related transfer orders, trigger printing of delivery documents,
and post goods issues.
The process combines the following individual steps:
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