General Business Rules for Auto Pick
1. Only material defined on the work order material sub tab will be included in the Auto Pick routine.
2. Only Inventory Items will be included in the Auto Pick routine. If you do not see a Code, it will be ignored.
3. Manual Pick/Return transactions are not considered by the Auto Pick routine. Manual transactions include those entered individually on the Material card tab or brought in from shop floor data collection. The Auto Pick routine will not check if the material requirements for the work order have already been satisfied with a transaction coming in from the Material Card or shop floor data collection.
Care needs to be taken while developing procedures or training personnel in this area. If Auto Pick is enabled and the material is listed under a work order, do not generate a manual transaction for Inventory Items pulled from Stock for this Job. This needs to be communicated to both fabrication and shipping personnel when both material types have been enabled for Auto Pick.
4. The Auto Pick routine will consider if it has previously processed a Work Order. In the event you have a work order that has been moved to a trigger status more than once, Pick transactions will only be generated once. ShopPAK knows when the routine was successfully run against a work order and will not duplicate the transactions if a work order status change triggers auto ‘Pick’ transaction generation again.
5. Once the Auto Pick routine has been applied to a Work Order, any subsequent material transactions would need to be processed manually through the Material card tab or via shop floor data collection.