PLP Robot - follow the PLP generation flag (group items on 1 proposal) and consolidate multiple PLPs in one.

Cristian Oneata

• February 14, 2022 14:53

When using PLP Robot to generate Pick List Proposals (PLP) every x min, make it to run similar to the controller setup for the user interface. 

The current behavior confirmed by Boyum / Produmex is that when running PLP Robot against the same sales order, when finding more inventory for line items it will generate new PLPs. It will be great to follow the set up from the controller, if there is an existing PLP and more items are available, to close the existing PLP and recreate a new one with old items and new items in it (when the setting is set in the controller - if not, follow the current functionality). This way it will follow the current UI behavior when running PLP creation from the Open Sales Order report or from the Sales Order button.

Thank you.

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• Official comment

  

  Gil Van den Hauwe

  • May 09, 2022 16:29

  We think this is a good idea, and have plans to implement it in the future. If our partners agree and up-vote this idea we will see it in a future QoL release.
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  Stefan Putz

  • February 14, 2022 15:57

  it would be generally a benefit, if you can control with the picklist robot view, how the items are combined. Let's see combine all items with a specific flag to one picklist. If the picklist robot is aware of such a feature, you could completely configure the way the picklists proposals are generated

   
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  Cristian Oneata

  • February 14, 2022 16:05

  Hi Stefan,

  Thank you for your feedback. Yes, in general we can control what order lines go into the PLP Robot and how to combine them. The issue is when, due to lack of inventory, some items are not allocated immediately. We want to allocate immediately the items with inventory, this will create a PLP. Then later, when new inventory is received, when the PLP Robot runs will allocate new items from the order. The issue is that currently, the Robot will create a new PLP no matter the setup in controller. In certain scenarios, we want to consolidate to have 1 PLP  / 1PL per order instead of multiple PLPs / PLs. Currently, the customer needs to go, close those 2 or 3 or more PLPs created by Robot and at the next run the Robot will create 1 PLP. But this requires human intervention, which will defeat the purpose of having a robot generating PLPs.
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  Stefan Putz

  • February 14, 2022 16:09

  yes, this should defintely be fixed and work the same way as the client side feature. 
  I had lately the topic to influence the picklist generation even more. The option with item pick type and full/partial pallet logic currently exists wasn't enough. Or do I miss a feature in the picklist robot, to influence this even more? 

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