Managing Packing Material Inventory in WMS

Approach to manage packing material inventory in Increff WMS, as described below.

Considering each roll / bundle as an item

Increff WMS will consider one roll / bundle of packing material as one item. So the complete item’s lifecycle in Increff WMS will be as a roll / bundle level. Simply put, one roll / bundle gets inwarded in Increff WMS as one Item and gets outward as one item

Article Masters

• Style ID will be defined at packing material roll / bundle level on the basis of below attributes:
  • Packing material Marketplace
  • Packing material type (polybag, Carton, green packing, etc)
  • Packing material dimensions
  • Any other unique attribute
• SKU will be defined for each Style ID based on the count of packing material in the roll / bundle. Example – roll of 50 polybags for a particular Style ID will have one SKU ID and the roll of 100 for polybags for the same Style ID will have different SKU ID.

Inwards

• Steps are
  • Inward order
  • GRN with QC. Note:
    • you need a scannable SKU barcode on each roll / bundle which identifies the roll / bundle as a separate SKU
    • Item ID will be assigned to each roll and not on each polybag.
  • Putaway

Outwards

• Steps are
  • B2B Outward order
  • Inventory allocation
  • Picklist release
  • Picking
  • Packing
  • Handover
• You will have to come up with frequency and size of outward orders of packing material so that this activity does not impact B2C forward order SLAs and other warehouse operations.
• This roll / bundle cannot be split into individual poly bags unless the whole roll / bundle gets outward completely in Increff WMS

Other Considerations

• Article Master for packing Material SKU will need to be uploaded manually in Increff OMS till the time D365 integration is not live. Once integration is live, this data will come from D365.
• Inward PO and B2B Outward Orders will need to be uploaded manually in Increff OMS till the time D365 integration is not live. Once Integration is live, these orders will come from D365.

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