It’s a simple list containing the items to be picked from the specific shelves in a warehouse/store.
Using a picklist has never been mandatory. But it has many advantages attached to it, like, it can optimize the picking process by grouping the items to be processed together. It also ensures that a picker doesn’t have to go the same shelf or nearby shelves in identical round trips to fetch products.
Picklist Status
A picklist is created in the system for the selected orders and the status of the system becomes Picking; on the picklist being received, the shipment is marked as picked. And the picklist is marked as closed as soon as all the orders in it are invoiced.
Process Flow:
Follow a few simple steps to create and receive picklists:
1. On the path Fulfillment > Picklists, select “Create Manual” on the top-right side of the screen.
2. Select the Orders and click on Create Picklist.
3. This creates the picklist successfully. You can generate the picklist or receive it at the invoicing station. Both the actions can be done on this page.
4. Once the picklist has been marked as received , invoices can be generated.
Please remember: For SKU level traceability (ie, SKU barcoding), you have to scan the items while receiving the picklist for conducting these actions. And it is available only in Professional & Enterprise version only.
5. After the invoices are generated, Labels can also be generated from within the picklist
6. Once invoices and labels are generated for all the orders, picklist can be marked as closed
From the functional point of view, when the picklists are in either of the states: CREATED or RECEIVED, they are pending picklists, since the order items are not completely received at the invoicing station.
Notes
1) For Damaged/Putback item :
The user needs to create the new putaway as Putaway picklist item where he can now mark Good/Bad Inventory and assign the shelf accordingly.
2) In case of package type as fixed and having multiple order item :
If user Not Found/ Damaged any shipment item before invoicing then all other picklist items belong to that shipment will be marked as PUTBACK automatically.
Scenarios
SCENARIO 1 -Picklist contains multiple Packages and one of the package is cancelled before receiving the picklist.
SCENARIO 2 -Picklist contains multiple Packages and one of the package is cancelled after receiving the picklist and generating the invoice.
SCENARIO 3 -Picklist has 1 order with multiple items and one of the item is cancelled before generating the invoice.
SCENARIO 4 -Picklist has 1 order with multiple items and one of the item is cancelled after generating the invoice.
There are multiple scenarios that can come across while working with Picklist. These scenarios are discussed below
SCENARIO 1-Picklist contains multiple Packages and one of the package is cancelled before receiving the picklist.
Step A– Picklist can be received and invoices can be generated as usual for all the processing orders as mentioned in Step 4 Above
Step B– Do Putback for the cancelled package
STEP C – Close the Picklist
STEP D – Create Putaway PICKLIST ITEM for the cancelled Item for putting the item back into the desired shelf
SCENARIO 2-Picklist contains multiple Packages and one of the package is cancelled after receiving the picklist and generating the invoice.
STEP A – Invoices can be generated as usual for all the processing orders as mentioned in Step 4 Above
STEP B – Picklist can be closed
STEP C – Go to Putaway Pending tab and complete the Putaway to add the inventory back
SCENARIO 3-Picklist has 1 order with multiple items and one of the item is cancelled before generating the invoice.
STEP A Invoices can be generated as usual for all the processing orders as mentioned in Step 4 but before the invoice gets generated, it will give a popup to putback the cancelled item
STEP B – Once the putback is done for the cancelled item, generate the invoice for the remaining items and close the picklist
STEP C – Create Putaway PICKLIST ITEM for the cancelled Item for putting the item back into the desired shelf
SCENARIO 4-Picklist has 1 order with multiple items and one of the item is cancelled after generating the invoice.
STEP A – If the invoice is already generated and one item is cancelled after wards then the picklist can still be closed
STEP B – Putaway can be completed for the cancelled item from Putaway Pending Tab
Also note that invoice and label can be generated right there.
6. Once the Picklist is RECEIVED, you can generate the invoice for the shipment and the shipping label for further processing the shipment and getting it ready to ship.
Note: In Enterprise version, you can also create Channel wise auto picklist.
Rest process is similar as per default functions