Packing work for packing stations
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Feb 15, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Business value
This feature greatly improves the flexibility and agility of packing and shipping operations. During the packing process, warehouse workers are now able to pack and ship individual parcels that are related to the same shipment. It makes packing and shipping operations more effective. Items from the same order don't need to be shipped together if some can be shipped before the other. The same order can be packed and shipped in multiple parcels at different shipment times if needed.
Feature details
Currently, when warehouse management processes are configured to bring inventory to packing stations, the picking work contains links to load lines. This can cause issues if you try to split the shipment at load confirmation because you want to ship just part of the shipment (using the confirm and transfer feature) rather than wait for the whole shipment to ship.
This feature makes it possible to create so-called packing work when inventory lands at the packing station. Instead of the initial picking work, the links to load lines are now carried by the packing work lines. When a container is closed, the packing work is adjusted so that there is one closed work record per closed container. This allows the system to easily split the closed containers (which must still be moved to the bay door) and move the open containers and remaining picking work into a new shipment at ship confirmation (again, using the confirm and transfer feature).
See also
Packing work for packing outbound containers and processing shipments (docs)