If you reach your limits using one packing place, setting up additional packing places makes sense in a lot of cases.
Especially when there are a lot of orders to process due to seasonal fluctuation, one packing place is not enough to handle all incoming orders in time. Furthermore, additional packing places can be useful to be prepared for a continual growth.
Handling orders that have a delivery date can also done be on a separate packing place. For those orders, express boxes are needed, that cannot be used for normal orders.
You need to consider different topics, in order to set up an additional packing place:
Enough boxes need to be created in pixi* Control Center and available in your warehouse.
Separate picklist profiles with different parameters need to be created for each packing place.
Automatic invoice creations need to be configured, so that only invoices are created that belong to the appropriate packing place.
The following steps should help you set up an additional packing place. But be aware that there are several possibilities of how to set up an additional packing place. We only provide one possible solution.
Image: Warehouse with one packing place |
Image: Warehouse with three packing places |
Create Boxes
Before you set up an additional packing place, you should check whether there are enough boxes available in your warehouse in order to serve another packing place. If you don't have enough boxes, they need to be obtained and created in pixi* Control Center.
Choose a proper naming and description for boxes, so they are identifiable. If needed, reposition already existing boxes in your warehouse and modify the boxes properties in pixi* Control Center.
If you want to process orders with delivery dates on a separate packing place, make sure to enable Express Box option for those boxes and have in mind, that express boxes cannot be used for normal orders.
Read more: Boxes
Modify or create Picklist Profiles
In case you use several packing places, at least one picklist profile should be created for each packing place. Picklist parameter values depend on the available boxes for each packing place.
In the Orders section, put the number of available boxes to the Number of orders field - in our case it is 10.
In Stock, you need to put the first box number of your box range to the Boxes From: field.
In our case this means:
Packing place green: Boxes From: 1
Packing place pink: Boxes From: 11
Packing place yellow: Boxes From: 21
Boxes To: field is automatically filled depending on the parameter Number of orders.
Make sure you have created enough boxes in pixi* Control Center, so pixi* can automatically fill the Boxes To: field accordingly and no other boxes are used that are meant to be available for another packing place.
Repeat these steps for every packing place and choose a meaningful picklist profile name.
Read more: Managing Picklist Profiles, Picklist Creation
Configure automatic Invoice Creation
Every packing place should have its own printer, in order to have control over all created invoices. Of course you can also print all invoices on only one printer. But it is important that pixi* Invoices is running and correctly configured on every packing place.
Below the button to start the automatic invoice creation, you can find the Use range of Boxes From: To: option.
Here you need to define the box range for every packing place, so that only invoices for this packing place get printed.
In our case this means:
Packing place green: Box range From: 1 To: 10
Packing place pink: Box range From: 11 To: 20
Packing place yellow: Box range From: 21 To: 30
If pixi* Invoices runs simultaneously on several computers and the boxrange overlaps, invoices get printed multiple times, which can quickly cause confusion. Because of this make sure to configure the correct box range for each packing place.
Read more: Automatic Invoice Creation