What is a Picking Wave, in Inventoey?

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1. Answer 1 — AbdAllah · CA627A

   A picking wave is a batch release step. It takes order lines that are ready to be picked — sales order lines, and transfer order lines — selects a set of them by criteria you give it, allocates inventory to them, and creates the picking work the warehouse then performs. In order, what one run does: It selects lines, typically by ship-from organization, scheduled ship date, shipping method, customer or order, so that a run covers a meaningful batch of work rather than one line at a time. It allocates. For each selected line it finds on-hand inventory to reserve against, honouring the picking rules that decide where to take the material from — which subinventory and locator, and which lot or serial where those apply. And it creates the pick tasks, and the pick slips that tell someone what to pick, how much of it, and from where. Afterwards the picks are confirmed, which records that the material physically moved to staging, and the lines are then ready for ship confirm — which is the step that actually ships them and relieves inventory. A wave does not ship anything. Two things that are usually the real question behind this one: A wave is the bridge between order management and the warehouse. Nothing gets picked because an order exists; it gets picked because a wave released it. If the warehouse says they can see no work, that is the first thing to check. And when a line will not release, the usual causes are, in this order: it does not match the wave's selection criteria; there is no available inventory to allocate to it; or it is not at a status eligible for release. You can run a wave on demand or on a schedule, and saved release criteria are what make the scheduled form useful rather than something somebody retypes every morning. Names of pages and parameters vary by release, so treat the above as the behaviour rather than as a click path.