Warehouse Control Board

 WAREHOUSE CONTROL BOARD:

Oracle Warehouse Management creates tasks such as picks, put away, moves, and replenishments and dispatches pending tasks on demand to mobile radio frequency devices. The Warehouse Control Board is a tool that Oracle Warehouse Management and supervisors use to monitor, plan, control, and execute various warehouse operations, including the following:

• Effectively use resources

• Query tasks

• Plan tasks

• Release tasks to the warehouse floor

• Assign, reassign, and prioritize the progress of tasks

• Perform manual scheduling

• Cancel crossdock tasks

The Warehouse Control Board enables you to view workloads across the entire warehouse, manage exceptions, and review, release, reassign, and re-prioritize tasks.

This is the current look of an R12 WCB Form.

 

This is the form look in release 11i.

FUNCTIONALIES:

CROSSDOCKING (TASK):

Crossdocking is the use of inbound receipts to satisfy outbound demands. You can use crossdocking to match outbound shipments to scheduled receipts in advance. This enables you to achieve faster flow-through times and optimize warehouse resources. Oracle Warehouse Management supports two types of crossdocking, planned crossdocking and opportunistic crossdocking. Planned crossdocking matches expected receipts to a demand source, and opportunistic crossdocking matches demands to received supply.

 Planned Crossdocking versus Opportunistic Crossdocking

You use planned crossdocking and opportunistic crossdocking for different scenarios. Planned crossdocking works best when you know your supply in advance. It enables you to control the throughput of your warehouse and matches known demand with expected supplies.  Opportunistic crossdocking helps with uncertainties. It uses the rules engine to match newly arriving supply to existing demands. This helps in cases in which a supply or demand source is changed, modified, or cancelled.

 Planned Crossdocking

This is new functionality in R12 .Planned crossdocking occurs during pick release. Oracle Warehouse Management uses release sequence rules to sequence demand sources, and fulfills the demand based on the allocation method that you specify during pick release. When you run pick release, the system uses the allocation method to determine whether crossdock should be planned.

 Opportunistic Crossdocking

Opportunistic crossdocking is supply initiated. Oracle Warehouse Management considers material in receiving to fulfill a demand if you enable Opportunistic Crossdocking on the Organization Parameters window. Oracle Warehouse Management uses the rules workbench to determine the appropriate crossdock criterion to use for supply. Depending on the eligible demand sources, crossdocking goal, and time fences that you specify in the opportunistic crossdock criteria, the system determines to which demand to crossdock the supply. It then stamps and operation plan on the material.

 This functionality is added as a separate Source Task query.

 

 ITEM TYPE (TASK):

Earlier we didn’t have an option of querying items specific to their Item Types. In R12 this functionality is introduced and user will be able to query the entire task specific to item types.

 

ORDER TYPE (OUTBOUND):

Now system has the option of viewing the entire task for specific order types. Earlier users will able to view different order types assigned. This functionality will help the resources to filter the task as required.