Put Away

The activities associated with receiving and putting away product in general stock locations. This includes determining the most appropriate storage location and making product pickable*. Generally recognized put-away policies are categorized in four groups:

Popularity. Popularity based policies look at run-rates, ABC Classification
Random. System-assigned random location
Dedicated. Fixed location. Often required for hazardous materials
Direct. Put-away directly in pick-location and cross-docking**

Pumping product into a silo or tank
Putting away product in a bin on a shelf or pallet location
In a Warehouse: Moving product to a storage location
In a Distribution Center: Moving product to a Piece Picking station
In a Distribution Center: Moving product from Receiving to a Case Picking location
In Retail: Stocking shelves

Notes

Make-to-Stock product is Generic Stock and is therefore typically stored in locations for which the material number is the only information recorded in the Warehouse Management System or Enterprise Resource Planning System. Some industries require the inventory record to also include the lot number or production date to support FIFO and FEFO.

*) Changing status to pickable results in the product being available for Picking. The physical movement and administrative flagging that product is pickable may take place at different times. This means that a product may be in the storage location from where picks take place, but is not pickable yet as it for example has not cleared final inspection.

**) OpenReference recognizes that Cross-docking typically has few(er) opportunities in a Deliver-From-Stock process. Orders Damage Free Ratio Kanban

Hierarchy

ID	Name	Level	x
D1	Deliver-From-Stock	2	D1
D106	Put Away	3	D106

Metric(s)

ID	Name	Level	x
DP11	Orders Damage Free Ratio	2	DP11

Term(s)

ID	Name	x
ABC	ABC Analysis	ABC
Kanban	Kanban	Kanban
WMS	Warehouse Management System	WMS

Workflow

From

Input(s)

Process

Output(s)

To

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M107	Generic Stock
S106	Generic Stock

D106

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Generic Stock	D107

Put Away Deliver-From-Stock 410600 3 Receipt and put away product in general stock locations. This includes determining the most appropriate storage location and making product pickable