Over picking enables you to over pick an item on a dispatched task as long as the item is within the same subinventory and locator. Over picking may be required to:
Compensate for shrinkage during shipment
Compensate for item damages
Compensate for imprecise measurements
Compensate for shipment quantity or UOM variance
Avoid scarcity of material
Minimize LPN breaks
You can over pick sales orders as long as the over picked quantity falls within the over shipment tolerances for the order. Lot substitution is not allowed. You can over pick only for the lot allocated to the task. You can choose to treat over picking as an exception and enter a reason code on the mobile pick load page, or configure the Pick Load Page to accept over picks without exception if the pick quantity is within tolerance. If you choose to configure the mobile pick load page to accept over picks within tolerance without exception, then the system considers the over pick as an exact match, and does not require you to confirm the quantity. If you want to change the confirmed quantity, you can select partial pick, and enter the new quantity.
You can over pick bulk pick items within the same subinventory and locator. Over picking of bulk items is based on the constraint percentage of the available quantity within subinventory and locator. When you perform over picking on a bulk task, the system creates an extra subinventory transfer for the over picked quantity, and the control board displays the number of child tasks with an increment of one. Once you load the task, the system deletes the subinventory transfer task, and the number of child tasks changes back to the original value.
The system examines any tolerance levels to perform the pick. This applies when you pick material for sales orders, internal orders, or wip picks. Therefore, if you pick material for any of those demand types, and over picking is enabled, then you can pick as much overage quantity as you want. This typically means picking a full pallet or a full case instead breaking the pallet or case at its source location. When you drop the material the system checks the tolerance levels. It is important that you return over picked material to either the source location or place it in an over pick bucket.
To use an over pick bucket model, create a non-LPN controlled over pick location next to the outbound staging lane or the manufacturing staging lane. When over pick quantity exists, the system suggests that you drop the material in the over pick location in which you deliver the necessary material for jobs and orders. You can then return the material in the over pick location to inventory.
You can use a mobile device to over pick replenishment tasks if available quantity of the item exists, and resides in the same subinventory and locator. Lot substitution is not allowed. You can over pick only within the lot allocated to the task. You can also over pick serial controlled items.
You can use a mobile device to over pick for move order requisitions if available quantity of the item exists, and resides in the same subinventory and locator. Lot substitution is not allowed. You can over pick only within the lot allocated to the task. You can over pick serial controlled items. If you check Allocate Serials on the Organization Parameters window, then the system forces you to first pick the allocated serials before you can pick from additional serials located within the subinventory and locator. If you do not check Allocate Serials on the Organization Parameters window, you can select any available serials within the subinventory and locator.
You can over pick WIP components once they are pick released. No quantity constraint exists as long as the components reside within the same subinventory and locator. You can pick an entire LPN if the additional quantity within the LPN is not reserved or allocated for another order. Lot substitution is not allowed. You can over pick only for the lot allocated to the task.
Note: You can set over picking at the organization level for manufacturing replenishment and requisition move orders.