WMS: Using LPNs and the Packing Workbench

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WMS Using LPNs and the Packing Workbench

• Arne Rosen
• Principal Consultant
• DARC Corporation

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Walk through Packing Workbench
• LPNs
• Packing Workbench
• Setups
• Label Printing
• QA

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What Can the Packing Workbench Do For Me?

• Packing of items is a common business scenario in
  any warehouse. Items can be packed either on
  receipt, while they reside in inventory and
  during outbound shipment to customers. Labels can
  be automatically triggered once the packing
  process is complete.
• This presentation will explain how Oracle WMS
  uses the desktop interface packing tool, which
  allows a user to perform packing, splitting,
  unpacking and reconfiguring of LPNs.

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What is an LPN?

• License Plate Number or LPN is any object that
  exists
• in a location and holds items.
• Store information like item, revision, lot or
  serial number
• Track contents of any container in receiving,
  inventory, or in-transit
• Receive, store, and pick material by LPN
• Pack, unpack, consolidate, split, and update LPNs
• Print labels and reports for container contents

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What is the Packing Workbench?

• The Packing Workbench allows you to pack material
• through a desktop application window.
• Contents can be an Item, LPN, Serial Number or
  GTIN
• Enter or scan the contents to perform the pack,
  split, unpack or reconfigure operation
• Product eligible for Pack transactions
• Inbound Material in Receiving Subinventory not
  delivered to Inventory
• Outbound Inventory in a Staging Subinventory

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Setting Up the Packing Workbench

• The required setups to utilize the Packing
• Workbench
• Create a Receiving Subinventory (For Inbound
  only)
• Create a Locator(s) with the Type as Packing
  Station (Outbound and Inbound)

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Setting Up the Packing Workbench
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Using the Packing Workbench

• Packing Initialization

• Nav Warehouse Manager gt Inventory Management gt
  Material Transactions gt Packing Workbench

• Transaction Source (Packing Station Defaults
  this)
• Inbound
• Outbound
• Transaction
• Pack
• Split
• Unpack
• Reconfigure

• Each pack This option always defaults the pack
  quantity to 1. This is useful if the operator
  must scan every unit.
• Serial triggered This option allows the operator
  to scan the serial number. Warehouse Management
  does not require the operator to enter the item
  if the serial number is unique.
• Kitting If an order was placed for a PTO item,
  the Packing Workbench displays the BOM when an
  operator scans a component of the BOM to assist
  the operator in building the kit.

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Using the Packing Workbench

• PACK
• Scan or enter in the Packing Station (Source
  Defaults)
• Select Packing Process LPN Pack (This Defaults)
• Select the ltFindgt Button (Eligible material will
  display)

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Using the Packing Workbench

• Inbound

• Outbound

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Using the Packing Workbench

• PACK
• Generate or Scan LPN in the Into LPN field (This
  is your outer Box LPN)
• Scan the contents that go into To LPN. The
  contents could be an item, an LPN or a serial
  number. If item is scanned, the user also enters
  the quantity and if applicable, the lot
  information. If content is an LPN, the content
  LPN is nested within the Into LPN.
• Note You cannot Pack different deliveries into
  the same Into LPN

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Using the Packing Workbench
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Using the Packing Workbench

• PACK
• Select ltClose LPNgt Button when you are finished
  packing
• LPN Information form will appear
• Select ltDonegt

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Using the Packing Workbench

• SPLIT
• Create or scan the Into LPN. This is the LPN into
  which the selected eligible material is packed.
• Scan a From LPN. This is the LPN from which
  contents will be removed and packed into the Into
  LPN.
• The contents, lot, serial and quantity being
  split is entered. If full quantity is entered,
  the content LPN is nested within the To LPN.

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Using the Packing Workbench
SPLIT
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Using the Packing Workbench

• UNPACK
• Enter or Scan a From LPN. This is the LPN that
  the selected eligible material would be unpacked
• LPNs must be nested to perform this transaction

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Using the Packing Workbench
UNPACK
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Using the Packing Workbench

• RECONFIGURE
• LPN reconfiguration is carried out by scanning an
  LPN and selecting Merge up or Breakdown
  method to unnest the LPN.
• Breakdown mode results in one or more child LPNs
  and all container only LPNs are destroyed.
• A Merge up mode consolidates the contents of
  all inner LPN(s) into the outermost LPN. All
  inner LPNs are destroyed.

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Using the Packing Workbench
RECONFIGURE
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Label Printing

• Labels can be initiated when packing transaction
  is finalized after the Close LPN button. The
  label types associated with Packing Workbench
  business flow will be printed. The supported
  Label Types are
• LPN Content
• LPN Summary
• LPN
• Shipping Content
• Shipping

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Questions
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Thank You!
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