Projects/Warehouse packing:Functional Specification

Contents 1 Warehouse packing 1.1 Overview 1.1.1 Scope 1.2 Functional Requirements. Phase I 1.2.1 Business process definition 1.2.2 User stories 1.3 Functional Requirements. Phase II 1.3.1 Business process definition 1.3.2 Technical extensions

Warehouse packing

Overview

The purpose of this project is to implement and enhance the management of the packing operations within a warehouse. Once the goods shipment is processed starts the packing operation:

• This operation can be done individually per goods shipment document.
• This operation can be done grouping the shipments per business partner and address
• For each different product the warehouse worker will decide in which different handling unit (hereafter Box) will pack the product

Scope

Phase I

• Ability to pack the items from the goods shipment window
• Ability to see in which boxes have been packed the items

Phase II

• Ability to pack items grouping goods shipments per business partner and address. New Packing window
• Ability to calculate the weight per box

Functional Requirements. Phase I

Till version 1.0.1

Business process definition

1. Goods shipment window
   1. Filter by document number
   2. Button for packing. This button is shown when the document is processed
      1. Products of the goods shipment are shown grouped
      2. Either using a barcode scanner or typing you can decide how many items goes in each handling unit
      3. Once a box is filled you can add another box to keep packing more items
      4. Once everything is packed you can process

User stories

Story 1:

1. Jonathan, the warehouse manager, wants to pack the goods shipment
2. He opens the Goods shipment window and select the corresponding document and press the button Packing
3. The system shows in the screen the packing list with all the products to be packed
4. Using a scanner barcode Jonathan starts scanning each product and this is reflected in the screen. When a product is scanned the system increase the quantity in the screen
5. When a Box is filled he clicks Add box and new column is shown in the screen
6. Jonathan continues packing the rest of the goods
7. He reviews that all lines are OK and process the packing list. In the goods shipment he can check how the goods have been packaged (In which boxes the products are)
8. Finally he weights the boxes

Story 2:

1. Jonathan, the warehouse manager, has an external logistic system
2. He opens the application to print the labels for each box
3. He enters the information: 2 boxes
4. The system prints two labels with a tracking number. He records these numbers in Openbravo

Functional Requirements. Phase II

After version 1.0.1

Business process definition

1. Packing window
   1. Select the date
   2. Select the business partner
   3. Select the shipment address
   4. Click the button Goods shipments
      1. Will only see goods shipments that are not in other packing documents and are marked as Do Packing
      2. Select the goods shipments filtered by business partners and address
   5. Button for packing. This button is shown when there are lines, that is, goods shipments selected
      1. Products of the goods shipment are shown grouped
      2. Either using a barcode scanner or typing you can decide how many items goes in each handling unit (box)
      3. Once a box is filled you can add another box to keep packing more items
      4. Once everything is packed you can process
   6. Button to complete the packing
   7. Once it is completed, total boxes and total weight is also calculated
   8. Ability to print the packing list. No template will be out the box

1. Calculate the weight
   1. Select the UOM packing to calculate the weight from the Product window
   2. From Organization window configure the UOM Packing for the boxes
   3. Configure the conversion among UOM weights

• Extensions from version 1.0.1
  • Every box will contain the total weight of the products
  • Either going shipment by shipment or grouping all shipments the new packing window will show all packing documents
  • Button to complete the packing from the goods shipment window and another button to reactivate the packing
  • Every goods shipment will point to a packing
  • New check in Shipment header that defines whether a goods shipment needs to be pack or not
    • When installing this new version the system will put the value N for old shipments so won't be able to be selected for packing
    • New shipments will have this field with the value Y
  • In the goods shipment window the button Pack will have a display logic so when the Do Packing is equal to Y it will be displayed

Technical extensions

• New table obwpack_packing
  • Audit columns
  • date
  • c_bpartner_id
  • c_bp_location_id
  • Description
  • number of bundles??
• New window Packing
  • Tab Packing
  • Tab good shipments (not editable)
  • Tab goods shipment lines (not editable)
  • Tab box
  • Tab lines
  • P&E button (Goods shipment)
  • Button Packaging
  • Button Process

• Table obwpack_box
  • obwpack_packing_id

• Table m_inout
  • obwpack_packing_id