Decon based on HU type

[BobbtyTom1]

Hi,

I have a product in Inbound delivery in two different units, Box and Pallets. Need the decon step in Inb process only if the HU type is Pallet.If Pallet,it has to go through Uload, Repack and Putaway. If Box, then only Unload and Puyaway

Thanks

Bobby

[JuergenPitz]

Hi,

means that when a pallet arrives, you break it down in individual boxes and putaway these boxes separately?

Brgds

Juergen

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[JuergenPitz]

My first reaction was: no, doesn't work. Then I thought: yes, there is a way. But the idea I have is not working, so I don't know if there is any way to do this with standard settings.

First of all: deconsolidation usually means you have a mixed HU. Means different products. Then it is possible to trigger the deconsolidation rule based. So if the two products go into different activity areas with different deconsolidation groups, you can control based on that if a deconsolidation shall happen or not, also means if the HU goes to the decon work center or not (so, no, does not work, as you probably have not different activity areas).

Now one other way to control this is by the number of WTs inside a HU. You can give a maximum number of WTs in the HU for an activity area, and if this number is exceeded, deconsolidation is triggered. So 1 is a good number 😉 (ok, should work, that also works for mixed HUs if don't have different activity areas).

But now comes the next problem: I have never managed that the system creates warehouse tasks for the lower level of HUs inside a higher-level HU. Any settings, packaging specifications, etc I have tried: the system always creates a WT for the highest HU, even if it is a product WT. The system does not adhere to palletization pack specs (which is a problem with POSC AFAIK), not to the "deconsolidation" pack spec (which I have never managed to get anything done). I tried AUoM, rounding settings, quantity classifications in the storage type (which also never ever have done anything for me).

But maybe someone here knows what I am missing?

The other solution would be a BAdI, there is one for POSC, the documentation says "You can use this BAdI in process-oriented storage control to change the determined destination data or to skip the intended process step", guess this is one way.

Brgds

Juergen

[JuergenPitz]

Hello ,

I finally, with the help of a colleague found the right setting. Need to write it down (can't today), the trick is to use a different determination procedure assignment then I thought.

Brgds

Juergen

[JuergenPitz]

Hello balumthomas ,

Still need to write this down...

So you want to have the deconsolidation rule based, depending on the units you putaway.

I learnt something new last week, after I tried for years to get the system to find a pack spec in such a scenario. What I tried was the packaging specification for palletization (which only works if no process is used), the pack spec for deconsolidation (which only proposes something on the work center) - the trick was to use the pack spec for "for Warehouse-Internal Processes" (which is called every time you create a WT).

So you need a pack spec (haven't tested, but probably with the UPB it could also be a packing instruction) which describes the units you want to putaway (in your cases the box). The warehouse process type for the final putaway (which is the one determined in the inbound delivery and triggers the POSC) has to have "Round Whole Units" set to 2 - Round Down WT Quantity to Single Unit. This way for each box a single WT is created for the final putaway.

In your process (unload, decon (you can not have a pack step rule based), and putaway), you mark the decon process as rule based (that is where you assign a WPT and the destination bin - but in this case no bin, just rule based).

In the settings for deconsolidation ("Define Attributes for Deconsolidation") you enter a max number of wts for the deconsolidation HU as "2" - and this, together with the rule based setting, controls that if you have more then one box in your pallet the pallet goes to the work center first. If you would receive a box only, the decon step would be skipped (I am still confused about the "2", I would have thought that "maximum number is 1" means that for 1 a decon is NOT required - but that did not work).

Where the deconsolidation will happen, you control in the node "Specify Deconsolidation Station".

Yeah, that's it. The main trick really is the assigned procedure for the determination of pack specs (in the settings for the warehouse number), which controls in this scenario how the final WTs are created.

Brgds

Juergen

[BobbtyTom1]

Thanks Juergen. I will try the steps and update you the outcome