Release Orders

The Release Orders function is the starting point of Warehouse Management's order fulfillment process. This function collects item and quantity information from Sales Order, Production, Service Director, and Warehouse Management transfers and material requisitions for all transactions that are due to be picked and shipped. After you build a list of the orders you need to fulfill, you can print a picking list and pull items from inventory.

You can narrow the list of orders retrieved by this function so that it contains only sales orders, or only production components, or a combination of transfers and requisitions.

If you use a multi-user system, Warehouse Management groups the released orders by pick ID. You can view the orders that were released by another user on a different workstation in the Record Picked Orders function, but you can only enter picked quantities and apply them to your own orders.

NOTE: When you want to release MFG-Production orders, you must first run through the process of releasing production orders in the MFG-Production application. This can be done by clicking on the Generate Reqs buttons for the production orders you want released, or you can run the Release Orders function from the menu. The production order will not be recognized by Warehouse Manager as released if you manually change the status to released in the Status field of the Production Orders function. You must follow up by actually generating the requirements for the production order, which changes the status to In Pocess.

  1. Use the Data Filter to select the range of filtering options or leave the filter blank to include all available data.
  2. Enter a new pick ID or select an existing pick ID you want to associate with the orders from the Pick ID field.
  3. Select the types of orders to include from the Include Orders section.
  4. Select whether to include comments by selecting the Comments check box.
  5. Click a command button to 
    6. Click To
    OK Begin processing.
    Activity Display the Activity Log to view released order activity.
    Reset Set all fields to their default values.
    Clear Clear all fields of their current values.