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Warehouse workers execute transfer orders (TOs) based on cross-docking decisions in exactly the same way as they would execute standard TOs, either via desktop computers or RF devices.
Cross-docking execution can be performed in one or two steps. For more information, see:
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One-Step Cross-Docking
· Two-Step Cross-Docking
1. Cross-docking decisions are created before (planned cross-docking) or during (opportunistic cross-docking) TO creation.
2. Warehouse workers execute the TOs.
One-Step Cross-Docking
Cross-Docking enables one-step cross-docking, whereby goods to be cross-docked are moved directly from the goods receipt area to the goods issue area.
Prerequisites
You have done the following:
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1. Ensured that automatic confirmation is not set (HU-managed environment only) by doing at least one of the following in Customizing for Logistics Execution ® Warehouse Management ® Activities ® Confirmation ® Storage Type:
¡ Setting the Confirmation putaway indicator for the goods issue storage type (e.g. 916)
¡ Setting the Confirm stck removal indicator for the goods receipt storage type (e.g. 902)
2. Enabled one of the following (in the case of an HU-managed environment):
¡ Partial posting goods receipt at movement type level in Customizing for Logistics Execution ® Warehouse Management ® Interfaces ® Shipping ® Define Shipping Control ® Define Shipping Control at the Movement Type Level (enter 4 in field)
¡ Posting goods receipt before TO creation in Customizing for Logistics ® General ® Handling Unit Management ® Basics ® Delivery ® Define Sequence of Transfer Order – Goods Receipt
If you do not perform prerequisite 2, cross-docking execution will be implemented in two steps.
Activities
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1. The system creates a transfer order (TO) from the goods receipt area (storage type 902) to the goods issue area (storage type 916) in the following cases:
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a. In the opportunistic cross-docking process
b. In the planned cross-docking process where:
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i. You have not forced two-step cross-docking in Customizing for Logistics Execution ® Warehouse Management ® Cross-Docking ® General Settings ® Maintain Warehouse Level Settings
ii. The inbound load’s quantity is not greater than the open decision quantity; and
iii. The decision links inbound and outbound document items or designates an outbound document or item for cross-docking
2. When the TO is confirmed, the inbound and outbound documents are updated with the actual pick and putaway quantities.
The cross-docking decision does not track differences.
3. In case the TO reference is handling unit (HU) managed, the HU is assigned to the outbound document during confirmation of the cross-docking TO.
Two-Step Cross-Docking
Cross-Docking enables two-step cross-docking, whereby goods to be cross-docked are first moved from the goods receipt (GR) area to a cross-docking storage type. The goods are subsequently moved to the goods issue (GI) area upon release of the outbound document.
Activities
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1. You do any of the following:
a. Create a cross-docking decision linking inbound and outbound document items, after having forced two-step cross-docking in Customizing for Logistics Execution ® Warehouse Management ® Cross-Docking ® Maintain Warehouse Level Settings
b. Create a cross-docking decision linking inbound and outbound document items, without having forced two-step cross-docking, in a case where the inbound load’s quantity is greater than the open decision quantity
c. Designate an outbound document for cross-docking, after having forced two-step cross-docking
d. Designate an inbound document for cross-docking
2. The system creates the following transfer orders (TOs):
¡ A putaway TO from the GR storage type to the cross-docking storage type
¡ A picking TO from the cross-docking storage type to the goods issue storage type (except in the case of 1d. above)
For more information on the exact process of transfer order creation in the case of two-step cross-docking, see Planned Cross-Docking.
3. When the putaway TO is confirmed, the decision's inbound confirmed quantity is updated. This quantity indicates to the outbound document that stock waits in the cross-docking area.
When the picking TO is confirmed, no additional document is updated and the confirmation is like that of a standard picking TO
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