Great Plains Picking Altara

Available with Great Plains
Keep pace with competitive markets and low margins. Advanced Picking capabilities provide you with the flexibility needed to reduce handling and increase accuracy for both single and multi-site warehouse operations.

Increase Picking Productivity
Facilitate shorter pick journeys and send goods straight to the appropriate loading bay by producing bulk picks coupled with individual sequenced picks.

Gain Control Over Picking Processes
Take control of the way you pick items by setting parameters based on site, bin sequence, schedule, consolidation, or individual item to maintain the best profit margin.

Minimize Overhead Costs
Reduce your handling time and cut down on errors with efficient and effective picking processes that meet your needs at each of your sites.

Improve Efficiency and Customer Service Levels
Gain operational efficiency and serve customers effectively by setting picks to match your warehouse layout, while still presenting documents to the customer in their preferred sequence.

Meet Site-Specific Needs with Configurable Picking Routines
Tailor picking routines to meet your individual site's business requirements, bin or bay sequence, or method of operation.

Integrate with Distribution
Advanced Picking capabilities integrate smoothly with the pre-requisite Advanced Distribution module, providing document flow control, as well as with other Microsoft Business Solutions for Supply Chain Management modules.

Advanced Picking Features List

Site-Level Configuration: Set picking rules by site to specify parameters such as bulk picking, picking sequence, and vehicle load or document batch control.
Item Maintenance: Specify parameters for individual items, such as whether an individual item can be bulk picked or should only appear on individual picking lists.
Sequenced Picking: Generate individual picking lists at the site level, in bin or bay sequence, regardless of the sequence of the originating transactions.
Individual Item Search: Locate individual items in sales transactions if quantities require adjustment prior to confirmation or fulfillment.
Consolidated Picking Lists: Configure and generate bulk picking lists to create consolidated picks of items across whole loads that may be required in multiple shipments.
Add to Load Facility: Produce bulk picks as schedules permit and make late additions to the load that can be picked as a separate consolidation.

Key Benefits:

Easily customizable and highly scalable

Supports connectivity with customers, vendors, business partners and employees

Robust, comprehensive functionality all-in-one source

Supports operations across countries, sites, languages and currencies

Key Features:

Microsoft Great Plains SCM supports your entire business and delivers these key functions:

Advanced Distribution

Advanced Picking

Available to Promise

eCommerce

eOrder

Inventory Control

Purchase Order Processing

Sales Order Processing

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