ABSTRACT
Introduction A customer-order batched picked SKU sort design is the heart of a warehouse. The warehouse staff creates an order wave and releases the order wave to the WMS computer. The computer allocates SKUs for customer-order batch groups or order waves and sends move transactions to a storage and transport designs. The storage and transport design ensures that SKUs are transferred from a storage position to a pick position. After SKU transfer and bar-code scans to a pick position, the warehouse computer sends a message to the WMS computer. The WMS computer releases customer orders to a pick design. A pick design ensures that a picker/pick machine transfers a SKU from a position onto a transport design. A transport design moves picked SKUs from a pick area to the sort design. The sort design ensures that picked (e.g., precoded, prelabeled, or labeled) small items or master cartons are picked as a mixed and picked SKUs and are separated according to sort instruction and sent to a sort location.
