What’s new in CU8 for WMS and TMS?

Load building workbench

This load building feature lets you automatically build loads using a load building workbench. You set up filters that define a subset of supply or demand lines, load building templates, and a strategy for load building. At the touch of a button, suggested loads are generated, which can later be turned into actual loads. This feature is designed for extensibility so that advanced load building strategies can easily be plugged in.

For more information, see Automate the process of building loads.

Cross-docking to move packages of products through a warehouse while using limited or no storage

Cross-docking is useful if you purchase products from different vendors, the vendors prepack cartoons that contain a mix of products or product variants, and you want to distribute cartons to one or more retail stores. This feature works with or without the Warehouse management module.

For more information, see Cross docking packages in Warehouse management.

Set up a company policy for sales order fulfillment and create batch jobs to release sales orders and transfer orders to the warehouse.

You need to set up a default company policy for sales order fulfillment rates. The policy controls the percentage of the total price or the quantity of an order that must be reserved physical before a sales order can be released to the warehouse. You can also set up a policy for specific customers. Customer-specific policies override the default policy.

For more information, see Sales orders and fulfillment rates in Warehouse management.

Allocate batch numbers in Warehouse management

You can define policies that control when batch numbers are allocated by setting up one or more number groups, and then assigning them to products. It’s possible to allocate batch numbers when you perform a physical receipt of a product, or when you create a line that includes a product on a source document, such as a purchase order. You can also manually allocate batch numbers to products.

For more information, see Batch numbers in Warehouse management.

Receive items at a different warehouse than expected

You can set up a mobile device to receive loads or items at a warehouse that differs from the warehouse that was specified on the source document. When you receive the load or item, the load or item is located at the new warehouse and all related work is created for the new warehouse

For more information, see Receive items at a different warehouse than expected.

Use product variants in warehouse management processes

Product variants are defined by product masters with product dimension variations, for example, a single towel in different sizes and colors. Instead of creating multiple products, you create a single product master and use the various combinations of sizes and colors as different product variants. You can use product variants in the following processes:

• When you define stocking limits.

• When you configure work confirmation and bar code scanning on mobile devices.

• When you create replenishment templates.

• When you set up rules for converting units of measure.

• When you assign fixed warehouse locations.

For more information, see Define pack size categories and location stocking limits, Configure mobile devices for warehouse work, Set up replenishment, Set up a unit sequence group and unit of measure conversions in Warehouse management, and Set up parameters to create a warehouse location.

Use additional production processes in a warehouse

It’s now possible to use these additional production processes in a warehouse:

• Direct raw materials to the operation that will consume them on a route.

• Set up a work template to create work to put away finished goods and co-products and by-products from the last operation on a particular production route.

• Direct work to pick up finished goods to the last operation on a production route.

For more information, see Set up production processes in a warehouse.

Use bar code lookup in inbound processes

Bar code lookup functionality can be used with products and product variants to support several inbound operations that are carried out by warehouse workers on mobile devices.   

For more information, see Use bar codes in warehouse operations.