Warehouse 100: Sort codes for bins to help with directed pick \ shipping.

Scanco’s Confirm Picking, Wave Picking, and Order Picking applications can leverage the Scanco Multi bin "Print Sort codes" to create unique routes through the warehouse including allowing for certain bins to be skipped. 

To the right is an example of a warehouse that is numbered for the “snake through” route. If your warehouse is number in this fashion you might not need sort codes unless you have your bins numbered 1A for the bottom bin, 1B for middle bin and 1C for top bin. In that case you can enter sort codes for the bottom bin only to direct the user to lower bins only. When setting up sort codes you will need to pad the number with zeros. Example: If you have more than 999 bins but less than 10,000 bins, your first sort code will be 0001. This will allow for up to 9999 sort codes.

Typical Warehouse setup where Row A is on the left of the first aisle and row B is on the right. Row A Bin 1 would need a sort code of 0001 Row B Bin 1 would need a sort code of 0002 so the user does not have to go back down that row. Row C Bin 1 would need a sort code of 0021 so the user will start.

Example 1: If your warehouse rows are set up with the low numbers in the front to higher numbers in the back you will want to use sort codes to create a “snake through” route.	Current Bin set		Sort Code setup
	A1	B1	A1 - 0001	B1 - 0002
	A2	B2	A2 – 0003	B2 – 0004
	A3	B3	A3 – 0005	B3 – 0006
	A4	B4	A4 - 0007	B4 – 0008
	A5	B5	A5 – 0009	B5 – 0009
	A6	B6	A6 – 0010	B6 – 0011
	A7	B7	A7 – 0012	B7 – 0013
	A8	B8	A8 – 0014	B8 – 0015
	A9	B9	A9 – 0016	B9 – 0017
	A10	B10	A10 - 0018	B10 – 019

Example 2: To allow for skipping of certain bins but also allow for future modifications of the routes to include all bins you will create your sort codes like shown on the right. The bins that do not have sort codes would be skipped, and yet you could include them by adding the sort code later.	BIN  - Sort Code setup. Below you can see bin A2 does not have a Sort code and that bin would be skipped during the directed collection process.
	A1 - 0001	B1 - 0002	C1 – 0038	D1 - 0039
	A2 –	B2 – 0004	C2 – 0036	D2 – 0037
	A3 – 0005	B3 –	C3 – 0034	D3 – 0035
	A4 - 0007	B4 – 0008	C4 –	D4 – 0033
	A5 – 0009	B5 – 0009	C5 – 0030	D5 –
	A6 – 0010	B6 – 0011	C6 –	D6 – 0029
	A7 – 0012	B7 –	C7 – 0026	D7 – 007
	A8 –	B8 – 0015	C8 – 0024	D8 – 0025
	A9 – 0016	B9 –	C9 – 0022	D9 – 0023
	A10 - 0018	B10 – 019	C10 -	D10 – 0021