WMS App - Stock Transfers

James Ackerly
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We are new to Cin7 but have found some very basic things lacking in the WMS app.
Perhaps we are missing something as new users…

There doesn't seem to be a way to simply complete a stock transfer in the WMS app. The app always defaults to ‘put away’. 
If we use the Web UI, we can complete the transfer without the put away step.

In our example, we have transfer orders automatically generated for a production order. 
This is a specific list of components for a specific production order and all going to the same Shop floor work centre (we have 6 work centres).
As an aside, Cin7 doesn't direct the put away to the consumption bin tied to that work centre, the transfer order is only set to the generic shop floor location (Why! When we have configured the consumption bins!). What this results in is the WH officer not knowing which consumption bin the transfer order needs to go to.
Expanding the detail of the transfer order down in the WMS app doesn't provide the Reference field either, which would at least display the manufacturing order ID.

Back to the core issue:
Our WH officer picks the transfer order, selecting the Location, QTY and batch for each line item. They send those items and the Transfer order moves in to the In Transit state. Great!

When the goods are physically moved to the shop floor, we would expect our staff to be able to scan them in bulk to the location (consumption bin). This is not an inter-site transfer where you could be moving items to a number of possible destinations. This is a TO for a specific production order where all of the components needs to go to the consumption bin.
So rather than put away, we would love the option to set a to location and complete the transfer of everything in the TO.

Instead, for some of our more complex BOMs with up to 20 components, our WH Officer needs to select every component, re-enter the QTY again (which requires manually deleting the default unit of ‘1’ first) and then selecting the bin location.
They have just done that in the pick step, but are now forced to do it all again, 20 times over.

So my request is 3 fold:
1. Enable the TO reference field to be displayed on the TO ‘Additional Info’
2. For Production Order Transfer Orders - Allow transfer directly to the consumption bin of the selected work centre, instead of the generic production floor.
3. For Production Order Transfer Orders - Enable a ‘Select All’ or Bulk selection of everything already picked for that TO, and just have the user select (or in the case of a designated consumption bin) confirm the To location.

Fingers crossed on some action in the WMS app in the near future. 

 

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