Picklist profiles can be combined into sequences in order to automatically execute all containing profiles in a specified order at a specific time. Like this, manually creating picklists is not needed anymore in pixi* Shipping.
Tip: If you want to be informed about an automatically created picklist (it also works for manually created ones), you can use the pixi* Messaging event PicklistCreated.
Picklist sequences can be created, changed and deleted in the pixi* Web application > Logistics > Picklists > Settings.
Creating/ Modifying/ Deleting a Picklist Sequence
You can create , edit
, activated/deactivated
or delete
picklist sequences using the toolbar icons.
The following parameters can be defined for creating and modifying a sequence:
Location: Select the location where you want the sequence to be executed from the dropdown list.
Name: Name the picklist sequence. This name is shown in the list of picklist sequences.
Schedule: Select one or multiple weekdays or a time span (Monday to Friday; Saturday and Sunday) as well as a date for the sequence to be executed.
Select profile(s): You can add one more profile to the sequence. The same profile can be used several times. After or before you select the profile, you can define how often the profile should be added to the sequence.
Profile Name: This table shows the profiles that were added to the sequence. Profiles are executed in the same order they were added to the sequence.
Profiles that have been added to the sequence can be sorted via drag & drop using
Info:
- One profile per minute is executed in a sequence. Please make sure that a sequence does not contain more than 60 profiles if another sequence will be executed at the next full hour. As an alternative, combine several sequences into one to prevent parallel executions.
- If you choose "0:00" as date, the sequence will be started at the beginning of the before defined day.
- When a picklist profile is executed in a sequence but there are not enough orders to create the picklist, then it is not created and the next picklist profile is executed in the next minute.
To delete a sequence, select it and click Delete in the toolbar.
Examples
The functionality of automatic picklist creation is described in the following two examples. The first one is about a sequence with only a few profiles. The second one deals with the case that one sequence contains that many profiles that it overlaps with the next sequence.
Info: We assume that for all picklist profiles assigned to a sequence, enough shippable orders are available in pixi*.
1 sequence, 3 profiles
The picklist sequence "Morning Routine" should be executed Monday to Friday at 05:00 a.m. It contains the following picklist profiles:
1 x DHL, 10 Orders
1 x DHL, 10 Orders
1 x DPD, min. 10 Orders
Picklist Creation Schedule
05:00 - Picklist profile "DHL, 10 Orders" gets executed and a new picklist gets created.
05:01 - Picklist profile "DHL, 10 Orders" gets executed and an additional new picklist gets created.
05:02 - Picklist profile "DPD, min. 10 Orders" gets executed and since there are more than 10 orders with the shipping vendor DPD in pixi*, a new picklist gets created with X orders.
The sequence has finished and 3 picklists have been created.
2 sequences, overlapping
The picklist sequence A "Almost Lunch" should be created Monday to Friday at 11:00 a.m. It contains the following picklist profiles:
30 x DHL, 10 Orders
20 x DPD, 10 Orders
10 x Heavy Items, 5 Orders
10 x Only hazardous Items, 5 Orders
The picklist sequence B "Lunchtime!" should be created Monday to Friday at 12:00 a.m. It contains the following picklist profiles:
5 x UPS, up to 5 kg, 10 Orders
5 x Frozen Items, 10 Orders
This configuration results in an overlapping of both sequences! When the overlapping happens, one profile is taken from each sequence in an alternating order.
Picklist Creation Schedule
Sequence A starts
11:00 until 11:29 - Picklist profile "DHL, 10 Orders" gets executed 30 x and 30 picklists get created.
11:30 until 11:49 - Picklist profile "DHL, 10 Orders" gets executed 20 x and 20 picklists get created.
11:50 until 11:59 - Picklist profile "Heavy Items, 5 Orders" gets executed 10 x and 10 picklists get created.
12:00 - Picklist profile "Only hazardous Items, 5 Orders" of sequence A gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
Sequence B starts, sequence A continues, both sequences run alternating
12:01 - Picklist profile "UPS, up to 5 kg, 10 Orders" of sequence B gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
12:02 - Picklist profile "Only hazardous Items, 5 Orders" of sequence A gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
...
12:09 - Picklist profile "UPS, up to 5 kg, 10 Orders" of sequence B gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
12:10 - Picklist profile "Only hazardous Items, 5 Orders" of sequence A gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
12:11 - Picklist profile "Frozen Items, 10 Orders" of sequence B gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
12:12 - Picklist profile "Only hazardous Items, 5 Orders" of sequence A gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
12:13 - Picklist profile "Frozen Items, 10 Orders" of sequence B gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
...
12:18 - Picklist profile "Only hazardous Items, 5 Orders" of sequence A gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
Sequence A has been finished, sequence B continues
12:19 - Picklist profile "Frozen Items, 10 Orders" of sequence B gets executed 1 x and 1 picklist gets created.
Sequence B has been finished
Although sequence B contains 10 profiles, finishing this sequence takes 10 minutes longer due to overlapping with sequence A.