Catch weight item handling policy
The catch weight item handling policy defines two primary warehouse management flows for the items: when the weight of the items is captured and how it's captured.
You can define when the weight is captured for sales and transfer order processing. The weight can be captured during either of the following processes:
Picking - The weight is captured during the initial pick work lines of order work.
Packing - The weight is captured during manual packing. (You must send the items to a packing station.)
If the actual weight is captured at the packing station during the container packing processes, warehouse workers won't be prompted to capture the weight during picking work. Instead, the average weight of the physical inventory will be used as the weight of the picked inventory that goes to the packing area.
For internal warehouse management processes, such as counting and adjustment corrections, it is possible to define if the weight should be captured or not. If the weight is not captured, the nominal weight will be used.
You can also define how the weight is captured. In one of the two main flows, catch weight tags are tracked and used to capture the weight. In the other flow, catch weight tags aren't tracked.
Yes - The item uses catch weight tags. Each tag number represents one catch weight unit (box), and a weight and other information are associated with the tag. For outbound processes, the weight that is associated with the tag is used.
No - The item doesn't use catch weight tags. The inbound and outbound weighing processes are based on the actual weight that is captured during each process.
The process of tracking catch weight tags can be used for items that won't change weight during the storage period. The weight will be captured only during the inbound warehouse process. During the outbound process, the catch weight tags will be scanned and the weights that are associated with the tags will be used for the outbound transactional processing.
How to capture catch weight
When catch weight tag tracking is used, a tag must always be created for every catch weight unit that is received, and every tag must always be associated with a weight.
For example, Box is the catch weight unit and you receive one pallet of eight boxes. In this case, eight unique catch weight tags must be created and a weight must be associated with each tag. Depending on the inbound catch weight tag, either the weight of all eight boxes can be captured, and the average weight can then be distributed to each box, or a unique weight can be captured for each box.
When catch weight tag tracking isn't used, the weight can be captured for each dimension set (for example, for each license plate and tracking dimension). Alternatively, the weight can be captured based on an aggregated level, such as five license plates (pallets).
For the methods for capturing outbound weight, you can define whether the weighing is done for each catch weight unit (that is, for each box), or whether the weight is captured based on the quantity that will be picked (for example, three boxes). For the production line picking process, the average weight will be used if the Not captured option is used.