Oh, there are so many things to that... But the field priority is the last one you should look into.
Your question sounds
as if it is always the same material / products?
What
gets picked first? Assuming you work with RF and WOs are assigned
automatically, what is picked first is what is in your first queue. So the
first thing to look into is how you can determine a queue and what options you
have there.
The fields for the
queue determination are source / destination activity area, access type,
warehouse process type and activity. Warehouse process type, activity and therefore
also the source activity are connected. The WPT can be determined using the WPT
control indicator, which is in the warehouse products (this is what Daniil described). So this would be the
first choice.
Next: if all WOs are
in the same queue, the sorting is done by latest start date. The latest start date
is determined by calculating backwards from the planned goods issue date of
your PDO or the planned pick end date of your wave template. In the extract
time calculation you can use a “product load category” for the calculation. But
that would mean that you would have to give a longer time calculated for the other
products. Which can be done without having to assign a category for the other
products, but in case you have a small WO for a low priority product and a big
WO for a high priority product, it could be an undesired result.
But as I wrote above
and you wrote as well, you have a pick completion time in the wave template. You
can define a wave template with an earlier completion time than other templates
and determine the wave template with product related information. Either by the
product itself – which is ok if you do not have too many of these products, as
otherwise you need to maintain a lot of condition records. Or you need to see
what else from the product can be used. The pre-defined field catalog does not
really offer something from the standard control indicators I can see right
now, but of course it can be extended. There is a field “Item Indicator”, which
I don’t know where this comes from. And “Wave Priority” – which is set in the
PDO, but I also do not know where this comes from. You can already use the WPT,
so if you determine this one product specific, it can be continued to be used
in the wave template determination.
From the wave
template you can also use the “mode” to round the latest start date, otherwise
there is a special activity category indicator, which can be used to determine
a special activity – which in turn can be used in the queue determination. Don’t
know why you would want to do that…
And then, if you have
your WOs in the same queue, and if they have the same latest start date – only then
the priority in the WO is being used. Which again is calculated by various things,
but none of it is directly product related. The nearest again would be the WPT.
Brgds
Juergen
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