What is Wave Picking?
Wave picking is a term for a process used in a Warehouse Management System (WMS) to support organizing of the daily flow of work of a warehouse or distribution center.
Wave picking is an application of short-interval-scheduling. Users, using a WMS, assign groups of orders into short intervals called "waves", to initially simulate the flow for the day, consistent with the order departure plan and available labor.
One of the objectives of wave picking is to minimize the variation of workload in each work function by wave.
There are three basic management tasks accomplished and benefits of wave picking.
- To organize the sequence of orders and their assignment to waves, consistent with routing, loading and planned departure times of shipping vehicles or production requirements, etc., and therefore to reduce the staging space required for shipping dock handling to assemble orders, load and ship;
- To assign staff to each wave and function within each wave, with the expectation that all the work assigned to each wave will be completed at approximately the same time, within the wave period, providing management with the ability to monitor and manage performance throughout the day, responding in a timely way to problems that occur, and more effectively utilize the staffing throughout the shift; and
- To support management control, before and during a work shift, to achieve the daily plan and react in a timely way, and measure and report the results.
What is Wave Role?
Wave picking was designed so you can setup wave configurations and preview these wave
configurations without giving the client wave picking access until they are ready to go live.
This allows you to start setting up a client on wave picking without forcing them to use it
until they are ready.
Note: As soon as the users assign a client wave picking access, they can no longer pick using
the old process and they have to use the wave picking from this point onwards.
The Wave Pickers access is only allowed to view or transact the Mobile Wave Picking.
Mobile Wave Picking
Login to the HHT.
Then enter the provided Username and Password and click the “Sign In” button.
Note: If no Login details please ask our support members for assistance.
Then, click the "Wave Picking" menu option on the mobile device.
Scan the wave barcode to take you directly to the wave to be picked.
The barcode can be found on the Wave Summary Sheet.
Or select a client from the dropdown menu and Click the “Load Waves” button.
Click the "Select" button to start the Pick process.
Then, scan the Location, SKU, Plate Number, enter the quantity to pick and then click the "Pick" button.
*Once the Wave No. is selected and start to pick, SO status will change to Being Picked.
If the "Qty to Pick" is greater than the physical stock available in that location, then will need to tap the Skip button.
Then, a confirmation message will be encountered to ensure they did not click the "Skip" button my mistake. Click the OK button to continue, and if not, click the Cancel button.
A message will be encountered "No Available Inventory - This line will be short shipped". Then click the "Short Ship" button and this will need to be reviewed in the "Close Wave".
When the Wave is fully completed, a "Wave Complete" message will be displayed and the user can start processing the next wave.
