Order Management - Pick Release Concepts

Release Rules

• Release rules define the criteria to be used during Pick Release. Only orders that meet the criteria and are eligible will be released. An order line is eligible if it has completed the prerequisite workflow activities, such as Schedule - Line or Create Supply.

Release Sequence Rules

• Release Sequence rules determines the order in which inventory is allocated to sales orders. You choose to allocate by order, outstanding Invoice value, Scheduled Date, Departure Date and Shipment Priority.
• The order in which sales orders are filled could be very important. If a company has a problem of running out of material before all of their orders have been filled it is very important that they have filled their most important orders first.

Picking Rules

• Picking rules, which are created and maintained in Oracle Inventory, suggest which material to use, based on inventory controls such as revision control, lot control, FIFO (first in first out) or subinventory/locator picking numbers.
• Picking rule is an Item Attribute. Create a variety of picking rules and associate them with the appropriate items. If there isnt a Picking Rule associated with the item, the system will use the organizations default picking rule which is found on the Shipping organizations Parameters.
• Note: Picking Rules are covered in Oracle Inventory. To learn more see Oracle Inventory users guide.

Pick Slip Grouping Rules

• Pick Slip Grouping Rules organize how released order lines are grouped on Pick Slips for ease of picking. For Example: By using the Pick Slip Grouping Rule as Subinventory, the user can reduce the number of trips to a particular subinventory by grouping all lines for that subinventory on to one Pick Slip.