EWM Wave capacity

[former_member722016]

Hi, I'm using waves and I have setup the capacity by weight. The issue I'm facing is the system is no splitting the waves as I expected. Example, capacity is 20 KG and I have 4 ODO lines with 19 KG, 2 KG, 3 KG, 5 KG. The result is one wave with 4 lines instead 2 waves. I get a warning message saying the capacity was exceed.

Just a comment, the way I'm creating the wave is by selecting all the ODO lines and assigning a wave template. Any idea?

Thanks,

[JuergenPitz]

"So, the capacity profile just helps in creating smaller warehouse tasks(work load) which then can be further sorted via WOCR and assigned to resource?"

No. The size of the the WT is not changed. It is just about system performance when releasing the wave and creating WTs.

Brgds

Juergen

[JuergenPitz]

Hi,

first of all: the "capacity" profile for wave is only to reduce the workload during the wave release / WT creation. It has nothing to do with capacities in respect to if the WTs can be processed.

When creating waves with reference to a wave template manually, the parameter "Error at Cap.Overr." in the wave capacity profile controls how the system reacts when exceeding the limit:

- if the flag is not set, there is only a warning.

- if the flag is set, then there is an error.

When creating waves automatically in the background - the limits are not exceeded.

Brgds

Juergen

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[former_member722016]

Thanks. I was expecting the system split the ODO items in different waves. If not, I dont understand what is the meaning of the capacity profile.

[JuergenPitz]

Hi,

oh, don't worry. The capacity profile does split the wave. When the wave is created automatically, it does work. But if you create the wave manually, it depends on the parameter I mentioned above. If the flag for "Error at capacity overrun" is not set, you only receive a warning, but the system does not make a split.

The use of the capacity profile is only for system performance. There are customers with a lot of deliveries with a lot of items. If all these items are in the same wave, the system performance at the release of the wave is... difficult. By splitting the wave with the use of the wave profile, the system simply uses different system workprocesses for the WT creation. But the waves all have the same template and option. You can limit the total number of waves (parameter "number of waves), if this is exceeded, then the next wave is created with different parameters (which is not really described).

AND: the parameters in the profile are rather... blunt. Which can create results which are not really great.

Brgds

Juergen

[sbkumar]

So, the capacity profile just helps in creating smaller warehouse tasks(work load) which then can be further sorted via WOCR and assigned to resource?