Advanced Wave Planning in E-

Business Suite Warehouse

Management

An Oracle Technical Reference

April 2011
Advanced Wave Planning
CONTENTS
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 1
2 Create Wave ................................................................................................................ 2
2.1 Estimated Start Time........................................................................................... 2
2.2 Selection Criteria ................................................................................................ 2
2.2.1 Simple Criteria ................................................................................................ 2
2.2.2 Advanced Criteria ........................................................................................... 3
2.3 Release Criteria ................................................................................................... 4
2.4 Wave Templates.................................................................................................. 5
2.5 Scheduling a Wave ............................................................................................. 5
2.6 Wave Workbench................................................................................................ 6
2.7 Post Wave-Initiation ........................................................................................... 6
2.7.1 Order Tab ........................................................................................................ 6
2.7.2 Lines Tab ........................................................................................................ 7
2.7.3 Tasks, Exceptions and Labor Statistics Tabs .................................................. 8
3 Planning a Wave ......................................................................................................... 8
3.1 Fulfillment Planning ........................................................................................... 9
3.1.1 Planning Actions ............................................................................................. 9
3.1.1.1 Planning Actions to Take with Sufficient Material .............................. 10
3.1.1.2 Planning Actions if On-hand Stock is not Available ............................ 10
3.1.1.3 Credit Holds .......................................................................................... 10
3.1.1.4 Cross dock Criteria ............................................................................... 10
3.2 Labor Planning .................................................................................................. 11
3.3 Rules-Based Planning ....................................................................................... 11
3.3.1 Labor Planning Example............................................................................... 12
3.4 Labor Planning Setup ........................................................................................ 12
3.4.1 Resource Setup.............................................................................................. 12
3.4.2 Pick Units of Measure ................................................................................... 14
3.4.3 Labor Set Up Modes ..................................................................................... 16
3.5 Planning Templates ........................................................................................... 17
3.6 Wave Planning Results ..................................................................................... 17
4 Wave Release ............................................................................................................ 18
4.1 Firming a Wave................................................................................................. 18
5 Monitoring a Wave ................................................................................................... 19
5.1 Wave Dashboard ............................................................................................... 19
5.1.1 Find Wave Tab .............................................................................................. 19
5.1.2 Requests Tab ................................................................................................. 20
5.2 Monitoring Warehouse Activity ....................................................................... 21
5.2.1 Orders Tab .................................................................................................... 21
5.2.2 Lines Tab ...................................................................................................... 22
5.2.3 Tasks Tab ...................................................................................................... 23
5.2.4 Wave Exceptions .......................................................................................... 24
6 Implementation Considerations ................................................................................ 25
7 Summary ................................................................................................................... 26
FIGURES
Figure 1: Wave Planning Process ....................................................................................... 1
Figure 2: Create Wave Simple Criteria Tab ....................................................................... 3
Figure 3: Create Wave Advanced Criteria Tab................................................................... 4
Figure 4 Create Wave Wave Options Tab ......................................................................... 5
Figure 5 Wave Workbench Wave Attributes Tab............................................................... 6
Figure 6 Wave Workbench Wave Orders Tab .................................................................... 7
Figure 7 Wave Workbench Lines Tab ................................................................................ 8
Figure 8 Fulfillment Planning ............................................................................................. 9
Figure 9 Wave Planning Window ..................................................................................... 11
Figure 10 Resources Window Main Tab .......................................................................... 13
Figure 11 Resources Window - Planning Tab .................................................................. 14
Figure 12 Instances Window ............................................................................................ 14
Figure 13 Subinventories Window- Picking UOM .......................................................... 15
Figure 14 Unit of Measure Conversions Window ............................................................ 16
Figure 15 Zones Summary Window ................................................................................. 16
Figure 16 Wave Workbench Lines Tab ............................................................................ 17
Figure 17 Wave Workbench Labor Statistics Tab ............................................................ 18
Figure 18 Wave Dashboard .............................................................................................. 19
Figure 19 Wave Dashboard Find Wave Tab..................................................................... 20
Figure 20 Wave Dashboard Requests Tab ........................................................................ 21
Figure 21 Wave Workbench Wave Orders Tab ................................................................ 22
Figure 22 Wave Workbench Lines Tab ............................................................................ 23
Figure 23 Wave Workbench Tasks Tab............................................................................ 24
Figure 24 Wave Workbench Exceptions Tab ................................................................... 25
1 Introduction
Work planning is an essential daily activity in a warehouse. It involves selecting and
grouping orders for fulfillment, planning resources for optimal utilization, and monitoring
the progress of orders through the fulfillment process. When you optimize your work
planning, you are able to predict the resources required to fulfill the required demand.

Though work planning is an integral part of daily operations, you may not have the
ability to preview orders prior to releasing them to the warehouse for order fulfillment.
You may also not know how much labor is required to fulfill those orders in the
warehouse on any given day or week.

After you release the material to the warehouse for picking, you have limited visibility to
the status of the picks, cannot make adjustments to the pick batch, or take actions on
exceptions when necessary. This can lead to operational inefficiencies, missed shipments,
and backordering of material, which can be avoided.
Prior to release 12.1 WMS used the pick release process for order fulfillment. With the
pick release process, you were not able to preview which orders to fulfill, and determine
if material was readily available in the warehouse. Even if material was readily available,
the system could backorder the material based on rules engine allocations. Additionally,
you could not preview warehouse workload or how many resources were available at any
given time to fulfill the required demand.

In Release 12.1, wave planning was introduced to enhance visibility to the order
fulfillment process. You can now determine which sales orders will be fulfilled in a pick
batch before releasing the pick batch to the warehouse for order fulfillment. You can also
estimate the amount of work required to fulfill the orders as well as view the existing
work load within the warehouse. Finally you can monitor the progress of the pick tasks
within the wave and add make modifications as necessary. The following illustration
depicts the wave planning process:

Create Wave
Create Plan Wave Release Monitor
Wave Simulate Wave / Wave Adapt / Cancel
Plan Labor Re-Release

Sales Order Lines Tasks

Figure 1: Wave Planning Process

The following sections detail the wave planning process:

2 Create Wave
When you create a wave you determine the material that is eligible for fulfillment. You
use a combination of criteria to select the appropriate sales orders and sales order lines to
fulfill. You can create multiple waves with different selection criteria. When you create
multiple waves you can compare and contrast waves thus enabling you to you to release
the most optimum wave to the warehouse.

2.1 Estimated Start Time

The Estimated Start Time is the projected time users will start picking the orders to fulfill
the wave. The system automatically defaults the current system time as the estimated
start time. You should edit this time to accurately reflect the estimated picking start time.
The planning process considers the estimated start time when performing fulfillment and
labor planning. When you plan wave if the estimated start time occurs in the past, then
the system will not allow you to plan the wave. This field is an editable field, and you
can change it has necessary.

2.2 Selection Criteria

You use selection criteria to determine the eligible sales orders. There are two types of
selection criteria you can use to create a wave, Simple Criteria and Advanced Criteria.

2.2.1 Simple Criteria

Simple selection criteria are similar to the criteria used on the Order tab of the Release
Sales Orders for Picking form. The criteria you select ensure the wave you create returns
the right combination of sales order for fulfillment. It restricts waves based on order,
customer, carrier, item, trip, delivery, and dock door appointment. For example, you can
create a wave that enables you to pick all orders with a dock appointment within the next
x number of hours, all UPS orders or all high priority orders.
Figure 2: Create Wave Simple Criteria Tab

2.2.2 Advanced Criteria

Advanced criteria are similar to rules you write using the WMS rules engine. They enable
you to specify additional conditions for the wave. You can write criteria based on the
delivery, wave, sales order, trip, sales order line, and item. These objects have individual
parameters like order revenue. For example, you can set criteria to pick all single line
orders or pick orders when a total tare weight or dollar value is greater than a specific
threshold. This enables you select the exact type of orders to fulfill.
Figure 3: Create Wave Advanced Criteria Tab

2.3 Release Criteria

After you determine the selection criteria, you set the criteria used to release the wave
(sales orders) to the warehouse for fulfillment. You determine whether or not to create
deliveries at wave release, set the picking and staging locations, as well as the release
sequence for the picks. You also choose the allocation method to use for your orders

The allocation method you select determines from where the material will be sourced.
You can choose to source the material from Inventory, Cross dock Only, Prioritize
Inventory, or Prioritize Cross dock. If you choose Inventory Only, then only material
which resides in on-hand locations will be considered to fulfill orders. Inbound material
which is available through cross docking will not be considered to fulfill orders. If you
selected Cross dock Only, then only inbound material will be considered to fulfill the
sales order demand. On-hand material will not be considered. If you choose either
Prioritize Inventory or Prioritize Cross dock, then both inbound material and on-hand
material will be considered. The order of the material considered to fulfill the allocations
depends on your selection. For example, if you choose Prioritize Inventory, the system
looks at all supply in on-hand locations before looking at inbound material to fulfill
demand.
After you have chosen your selection criteria and release criteria you can create the wave
online, or by using a concurrent request. If desired you can also choose to plan and /or
release the wave during the initiation process.

Note: If you want to perform pull replenishment for the select wave, the Pull
Replenishment check box and ensure that the appropriate set up steps are complete.

Figure 4 Create Wave Wave Options Tab

2.4 Wave Templates

You can create and save a template to be reused. When you create a wave template you
set the selection and release criteria. You can create wave templates to be used for
different circumstances. For example, you can create a wave template which selects
orders for a particular customer. To reuse a wave template perform a query for the
template name.

2.5 Scheduling a Wave

You can schedule a concurrent request to create a wave. The system uses an existing
wave template and runs the concurrent request at scheduled intervals. Once you set up the
required templates, maintenance is minimal. A warehouse manager can always manually
create a wave as needed.

2.6 Wave Workbench

You use the Wave workbench to view information about the wave. As you proceed
through the wave planning process, the information you view on the Wave Workbench
changes.

2.7 Post Wave-Initiation

When you create the wave, the system calculates the total weight, total value total
number or orders and total number of order lines, earliest scheduled ship time, and latest
scheduled ship time and displays these values on the Wave Attributes tab of the Wave
Workbench. These values are subject to change based on the planning process, and may
change if you make modifications to the wave after it has been released.

Figure 5 Wave Workbench Wave Attributes Tab

2.7.1 Order Tab

After you create a wave you can see the orders that are part of the wave. At this point,
you do not know the Planned Fill Rate, Release Rate, or the Actual Fill Rate. This
information will become available as you progress through order fulfillment. You can
however see the Order Numbers, Customer, the Order Progress (Ready to Release, Back
Ordered, etc), Order Date and Order Request Date.
Figure 6 Wave Workbench Wave Orders Tab

2.7.2 Lines Tab

You use the Lines tab to view the order lines which have been added to the wave. After
you create the wave, the lines are in the Ready to Release status. The line status changes
as the Wave Progresses through the fulfillment process. You use the Lines tab to view
information about the item and the delivery.
Figure 7 Wave Workbench Lines Tab

2.7.3 Tasks, Exceptions and Labor Statistics Tabs

The Tasks, Exceptions and Labor Statistics tabs do not contain any information
immediately after initial wave creation. Information is not available on the Tasks tab
until you release the wave. To view information on the Exceptions tab you must run the
Wave Planning – Catch Exceptions concurrent request. For more information about
exceptions see Wave Exceptions. The Labor Statistics Tab is available after you plan the
labor for the wave. For more information see Labor Planning.

3 Planning a Wave
Before you release the wave, you can perform material fulfillment planning and labor
planning. Fulfillment planning verifies that enough material is available to fulfill the
sales orders within the wave. Labor planning establishes the number of workers the
number of workers required to perform the work in the wave and checks the existing
workload within the warehouse.
WMS also offers two types of planning, rules-based planning, and availability check
planning. When you use rules-based planning the system simulates the rules engine
allocation, and if enabled, the labor to perform the picks. When you use availability
check the system verifies the material exists in the organization, and if you enable labor
planning, simulates the labor required to perform the picks. The following sections
contain information on how to plan a wave. You can either plan a wave using online
processing, or run wave planning as a concurrent request. If you use online processing,
all other transactions will stop while you are planning the wave. You must use
concurrent processing if you choose to use rules-based planning.

Warning: When you plan the wave the estimated start time must be greater than the
current system time, or the system will not plan the wave.

3.1 Fulfillment Planning

Fulfillment planning enables you to verify that you have enough material to fulfill the
wave demand. When performing fulfillment planning you can check the fill rate of the
wave based on the stock availability. This enables you to know exactly how much of the
wave will be fulfilled. The results you receive may differ based on the Planning Method
you select.

3.1.1 Planning Actions

You can perform different actions if the material is available, and if the material is
unavailable to fulfill the demand. Performing these actions saves times and provides
more visibility to the order fulfillment process.

Figure 8 Fulfillment Planning

3.1.1.1 Planning Actions to Take with Sufficient Material
If you have sufficient material in the warehouse to fulfill the demand then you can take
the following actions:
• Reserve available stock- Prevents the system from allocating the material to
another order line. This ensures that the most important orders receive the
material.
• Auto create deliveries: Creates the necessary deliveries for the wave if you have
not previous done so.

3.1.1.2 Planning Actions if On-hand Stock is not Available

If sufficient on-hand stock is not available, then the system can act automatically during
the planning process. It can:
• Backorder the line: Automatically backorders the line as part of the fulfillment
planning process. The system automatically recalculates the wave total weight,
value, number of order lines, and cubic volume.
• Reject Order line from the wave: The line is automatically removed from the
wave. The system automatically recalculates the wave total weight, value,
number of order lines, and cubic volume.
• Reject all lines in ship set from the wave. When the system removes all lines in
an affected ship set from the wave, the system automatically recalculates the total
weight, value, number of order lines, and cubic volume.
• Reject all lines for the model from the wave: When the system removes all lines
from the affected model, it automatically recalculates the Total weight, value,
number of order lines, and cubic volume.
• Remove the entire order from the wave: The system automatically removes the
entire order and recalculates the total weight, value, number of order lines, and
cubic volume.

3.1.1.3 Credit Holds

You can remove order lines from the wave that have a credit hold. This streamlines the
planning process; you will be notified earlier in the process if sales order lines are not
eligible for picking.

3.1.1.4 Cross dock Criteria

If you used the allocation methods Cross dock Only, Prioritize Cross dock, or Prioritize
Inventory during the wave initiation process, then you can consider cross docking
calculations during the wave planning process. You can select a cross dock criterion, and
the system takes into account the cross dock supply which can be used to fulfill the
demand in the wave planning calculations. .
Note: You can perform fulfillment planning for cross docking for both Availability
Check and Rules-Based planning. Labor planning is available only when you select
Rules-Based Planning as the Planning Method.
3.2 Labor Planning
Labor planning determines the resources required to perform the work for the wave. It
considers the required resources for the tasks and if those resources are able to perform
the tasks. When planning the labor for the wave you must enter specific parameters such
as Source Type, Source, Destination, and Pick UOM. You must also enter the Resource
to perform the task. Finally you specify the transaction, travel and processing overhead
times.

Figure 9 Wave Planning Window

To further narrow the labor planning calculations, you can plan labor by item category.
This enables you to account for the difference in picking times for different categories of
items within the same subinventory.

3.3 Rules-Based Planning

Rules based planning simulates rules engine allocations. This will help you to accurately
predict from where material will be allocated, and the labor required to perform tasks.
You can use the Labor Setup mode to track labor movement from Subinventory to
Subinventory or from Zone to Zone. If tracking from Zone to Zone you can specify a
logical grouping of locators from which to pick material.

Note: Zones are not used to establish picking paths, but are only for planning purposes.
If you use Rules-Based planning you can also specify the outbound operation plan used
for your organization as well as simulate the labor required to perform planned cross
docking.

3.3.1 Labor Planning Example

The following example details the differences between Rules-Based Planning and
Availability Check planning. You have a sales order for Item WM100 for 25 and your
picking rule is set to pick the item from the EACH subinventory only with No LPN
allocation as the allocation mode.

The following table shows the availability of item WM100 within your organization.

Item Subinventory Quantity

WM100 BULK 100
WM100 EACH 7
WM100 CASE 0

If you run Availability Check as the planning method, the material fulfillment will appear
as 100% and the system will plan one task for 25 for the BULK subinventory. The
system does not consider the picking rules which are used during the allocation process.
If you use Rules-Based Planning as the Planning Method, the system will consider the
Picking rule assigned the item, and the fulfillment rate will be 28%. The system will plan
one task for 7 eaches for the EACH subinventory. If you choose to release the wave, then
system will allocate the 7 eaches available for the order and backorder the rest of the line,
because WM100 is sourced from the EACH subinventory. If however, you have multiple
rules set up to look at EACH and BULK, then the system will allocate at 100% as well.

Note: The behavior of the system will also change in this scenario if you selected one of
the items under the Planning Actions if On-hand Stock is not Available alternative
region. For example if you selected backorder line, then the system will back order the
entire line if you run rules-based planning.

3.4 Labor Planning Setup

3.4.1 Resource Setup
Before you can plan labor for the wave, you must set up the resources which are required
to perform the picks. If you do not, then you will not be able to plan the labor for the
wave. In addition to the standard resource set up, you must set the following:
• Instance: Determines how many instances of the resource are available to
perform picking tasks. The instance of a resource directly correlates to an
employee name.
• Utilization: The percentage of time the resource is performing picking tasks
 • Efficiency: The efficiency percentage is a subset of the Utilization percentage. It
measures how efficient the resources are when performing the picks. This is a
user-defined value.
• Shift information: If the resource is not available 24 hours, then you must
determine the shift information. This enables the system to determine the
duration of time resources are available for work.

Figure 10 Resources Window Main Tab

Figure 11 Resources Window - Planning Tab

Figure 12 Instances Window

3.4.2 Pick Units of Measure

You must also determine the pick unit of measure for the subinventory. The pick unit of
measure establishes the relationship between the task type and the allocation.
Figure 13 Subinventories Window- Picking UOM

You must establish a default UOM conversion for every picking UOM, for example a
case UOM, a pallet UOM. You can also establish item-level conversions. The item level
conversion takes precedence over the standard UOM conversion.

Note: When you are using rules-based planning, the system considers the allocation
UOM during labor planning.
Figure 14 Unit of Measure Conversions Window

3.4.3 Labor Set Up Modes

If you choose to use Zone to Zone as the Labor Setup Mode, then you must establish a
zone of Type Labor Planning to use for labor planning calculations. If a locator exists in
one zone of type Labor Planning, then it cannot exist in another zone of Type Labor
planning. The locator may however exist in one or more zones of type ATF, or in a Zone
of type Labor Planning and a zone of Type ATF.

Figure 15 Zones Summary Window

3.5 Planning Templates
Like wave templates, you can create planning templates to reuse. Planning templates save
time and enable you to create a series of criteria on which you can plan the wave.

3.6 Wave Planning Results

After you have planned the wave you can view the results of the plan in the Wave
Workbench. The Lines tab displays the planned fulfillment rate. If you have waves
which may be cross docked, then the system displays these as the cross dock fill rate.

Figure 16 Wave Workbench Lines Tab

The Labor Statistics tab displays the Resources available for the tasks, and the associated
capacities. You can view the total capacity of the resource, The Total existing work load,
and the Planned Work Load for the wave. The chart shows the number of tasks for the
wave which correspond to the graph.

After you have reviewed the results of the wave plan, you can make adjustments as
needed, re-plan the wave, and then release it to the warehouse.
Figure 17 Wave Workbench Labor Statistics Tab

4 Wave Release
After you make the needed adjustments to the wave, you release it to the warehouse.
You can use online processing or a concurrent request to release a wave to release the
wave from the wave dashboard. You can also schedule the Wave Release concurrent
request to run at regular intervals.

4.1 Firming a Wave

Prior to wave release you must firm a wave. Firming the wave sets orders to a particular
wave. During the wave creation and planning process, you can create multiple waves
which pull the same sales orders, this enables you to compare and contrast waves and
plan for optimum wave fulfillment. For example, if you create Wave 1 which contains
Sales orders 110, 111, and 112, and Wave 2 which contains Sales Orders 111, 112, and
113. After you have planned Wave 1, you realize you do not have the material to fulfill
sales order 110. You decide to go ahead and proceed with Wave 2. You can firm Wave 2
and Sales Orders 111, and 112 will be removed from Wave 1. The system also firms the
wave automatically from within the wave workbench at wave release.
5 Monitoring a Wave
You use the Wave Dashboard and Wave Workbench to monitor the waves in your
warehouse. These windows provide you with a complete view of the work in your
warehouse.

5.1 Wave Dashboard

The Dashboard tab of the Wave Dashboard provides an overview of the work in the
warehouse. You can select criteria for which to view a summary, and if desired view the
details of the wave. You can view waves using the Target Completion Date, Estimated
Start Date, or Actual Completion date. You can also select the dates from which to view
the associated waves, and the accompanying wave statuses. The Wave Report:
Fulfillment Summary chart changes based on your selection criteria.

Figure 18 Wave Dashboard

5.1.1 Find Wave Tab

You use Find Wave tab of the Wave Dashboard to find any wave, or view multiple waves
that fit certain criteria. For example, you can choose to view all released waves for
Customer Smartbuy that are being shipped using carrier DHL.
Figure 19 Wave Dashboard Find Wave Tab

5.1.2 Requests Tab

You use the Requests tab to view waves that were created, planned, or released using
concurrent programs. You can also track requests that recur on a regular basis.
Figure 20 Wave Dashboard Requests Tab

5.2 Monitoring Warehouse Activity

After you have selected the wave or group of waves to view, you use the Wave
Workbench to monitor the progression of work throughout the warehouse.

5.2.1 Orders Tab

After you release a wave to the Warehouse, the information on the Orders tab changes to
reflect the order fulfillment rate. The graph at the top of the page depicts the order Fill
Rate Summary for the entire wave. The chart at the bottom of the page depicts the
Planned fill Rate, the Release Fill Rate, and then as warehouse workers progress through
wave, the Actual Fill Rate.
Figure 21 Wave Workbench Wave Orders Tab

5.2.2 Lines Tab

The Lines shows you the progress of sales order lines as warehouse workers pick them in
the warehouse. The Wave Fill Rate charts show the Planned Fill Rate, Release Fill Rate,
and if required, the percentage of cross docked lines. The Wave Progress chart shows the
work percentages in the warehouse. You can view the percentage of sales order lines that
are Tasked Picked, Packing, Staged, and Completed.
The bottom half of the page provides details about the individual sales order lines. It
shows the sales order, sales, order line, and if the status of the order line. A warehouse
manager can view the line has been Tasked, Picked, or if the line has been Staged.
Figure 22 Wave Workbench Lines Tab

5.2.3 Tasks Tab

The Tasks tab provides you with a real-time view of the tasks within the wave.
Warehouse managers can view if a task has been loaded, or completed. This tab updates
whenever you navigate away from the tab and return to it. It provides and accurate view
of exactly what is going on in the warehouse. For example, if a task remains in the
Active or Dispatched states of too long, then you will know that the workers within the
warehouse have not completed their work.
Figure 23 Wave Workbench Tasks Tab

5.2.4 Wave Exceptions

You use the wave workbench to monitor wave exceptions. You run a concurrent request
to detect exceptions, and use the Exceptions tab to view the exceptions and take actions
on the exceptions. The system bases exceptions in a hierarchical order using dock door
appointments, scheduled ship date, and expected ship date. First the system looks to see if
a dock door appointment exists, if it does not then, the system uses the scheduled ship
date. If a scheduled ship date does not exist, then the system uses the expected ship date
to log exceptions. You can log exceptions at wave, trip, delivery, order and order line
level. You can create a wave level exception that notifies you if 80% of the orders for a
wave are not staged two hours prior to the dock door appointment time. You can also
create trip level exceptions if all order lines for a trip are not loaded one hour prior to the
end of the dock door appointment time. When logging a wave or a trip level
appointment, the system looks at the earliest basis (dock door appointment etc) to log the
exception. You can log order level line exceptions for example if 100% of the lines for an
order are not packed three hours prior to the end of a dock door appointment. You can
also log exceptions for individual order lines. This can be useful if a line is in the
replenishment requested status for more than a specified amount of time.
You can also perform actions on the exceptions detected by the concurrent request. You
can choose to perform automatic corrective actions when you run the concurrent request,
or take action on the exceptions in the Wave Workbench. You can Release backordered
lines, Release planned tasks, change the priority of a task, place a hold on pending task
and view existing tasks.

Figure 24 Wave Workbench Exceptions Tab

6 Implementation Considerations
You can implement wave planning in many different ways: consider the following when
implementing wave planning
• Determine if you want to manually plan the wave, or plan waves automatically
using concurrent requests.
• Determine the selection criteria used to plan waves.
• If you plan on using Pull Replenishment, verify all replenishment setups have
been performed.
• Determine if Rules-Based Planning or Availability Check is the best method for
your warehouse.
• If using rules-based planning, verify that your labor set up utilizes all of the
subinventories which the rules pull from. This will ensure a complete picture
with rules based planning.
• Determine the Labor Setup Mode for your warehouse Zone to Zone or
Subinventories.
 • If using Zone to Zone verify that all of your labor zones are set up properly.
• When adding lines to an unreleased wave, you will be able to re-plan the wave;
the system will re-calculate the all of the necessary calculations for planning
purposes.
• Expected fill rate and actual fill rate may differ after release due to replenishment.
• If exception reporting does not appear to be working, consider the hierarchy for
reporting exceptions: dock door appointment, scheduled ship date, and finally,
expected ship date.
• The system considers the lowest common denominator when reporting
exceptions.

7 Summary
Wave planning enables you to select and group orders for fulfillment, plan the resources
for optimal utilization, and finally monitor the progress of orders through the fulfillment
process. It enables you optimize your work planning to more accurately predict the
resources and material required to fulfill demand.

Advanced Wave Planning

April 2011
Author: Tyra Crockett

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