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Chapter 9 Batched Picked SKU Sort Introduction A customer-order batched picked SKU sort design is the heart of a warehouse. The warehouse staff creates an order wave and releases the order wave to the WMS computer. The computer allocates SKUs for customer-order batch groups or order waves and sends move transactions to a storage and transport designs. The storage and transport design ensures that SKUs are transferred from a storage position to a pick position. After SKU transfer and bar-code scans to a pick position, the warehouse computer sends a message to the WMS computer. The WMS computer releases customer orders to a pick design. A pick design ensures that a picker/pick machine transfers a SKU from a position onto a transport design. A transport design moves picked SKUs from a pick area to the sort design. The sort design ensures that picked e.g., precoded, prelabeled, or labeled small items or master cartons are picked as a mixed and picked SKUs and are separated according to sort instruction and sent to a sort location. Small-item or master-carton sort activity groups are: n Picker sort designs n Centralized manual sort designs n Centralized mechanized sort designs After a manual or mechanized SKU sort activity, a sort employee completes a a SKU scan transaction, which is sent to the WMS computer. The computer depletes each SKU from the pick position inventory quantity and updates the SKU status, and b scan transaction, which is sent to the WMS computer. The computer updates the customer-order status. Small-Item and Master-Carton Sort Design A multiple batched pick, transport, sort, and pack design with a WMS computer transfers cus- tomer orders to the warehouse computer. Based on warehouse guidelines and order wave per hour or other unit of time , the warehouse staff creates an order wave that groups several or mixed 347 ? 2008 by Taylor Francis Group, LLC 348 n ?A Supply Chain Logistics Program for Warehouse Management WMS IDE