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Warehouse Product Slotting

Distributor steps for using the Warehouse Product Slotting tools in Encompass to re-slot products by sales rank, slot unslotted items, and place new or seasonal products, creating move tasks. Requires v22.07+.

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Written by Bailey Naas-Thornton

Minimum Version Required: 22.07

Steps

How to Access Different Slotting Tools
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1. Using Universal Search, navigate to the Warehouse Home dashboard
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2. Select the Product Slotting Tool
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3. Choose the preferred Slotting Tool
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How to Use the Re-Slotting Products Tool

1. Select Sales Start Date & Sales End Date - The date range used to apply Sales Ranking on selected products
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2. Select a Bin Zone and other optional field filters according to preference
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3. Click Next
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4. Enter Product Priority -Use the text fields to assign Products (based on their Sales Ranking) to Product Priorities
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5. Click Next
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6. Adjust Product / Bin Filter -Ideally, Product Priority should match Bin Priority
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7. Click to select the products you potentially want to move
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  • Click Selected Products
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    -Click the X mark to remove a product if needed (optional)
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    -Click Next when the product(s) selection is complete
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    -Choose a Bin:
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    ​ SELECTED- Bins that the selected Products currently reside in or can be assigned to
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    ​ EMPTY- Empty Bins within the selected Bin Zones
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    ​ SEARCH- Find a Bin manually
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    ​ NOTE: The chosen bin will have an icon beside it.

8. Click the X mark beside the chosen bin if you want to remove the selected bin
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9. Click Next
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10. Choose Assign Move Task To
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11. Click Create Slotting Task
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12. Click View Slotting Tasks


How to Use Un-Slotted Products tool
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1. Select Sales Start Date & Sales End Date
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2. Choose Backstock Bin Zones
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3. Choose Pick Bin Zones and enter additional optional field filters according to preference.
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4. Click Next
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5. Choose a Bin
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6. Click the X to remove a selected bin
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7. Click Next
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8. Choose Assign Move Task To
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9. Click Create Slotting Task
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10. Click View Slotting Tasks to see the details

How to Use New or Seasonal Product Tools
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1. Select Sales Start Date & Sales End Date
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2. Select Purchase Start Date & Purchase End Date and enter additional optional field filters according to preference
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3. Click to select the Products you would like to perform Product Slotting on
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4. Click Next
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5. Choose a Bin

Fields And Definitions

Product Slotting Tools
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  • Re-Slotting Products-Review Product’s bin inventory depletion, based on desired sales date
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  • Un-Slotted Products-Displays a list of existing products without pick locations, based on desired sales date
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  • New & Seasonal Product-Displays a list of New or Seasonal Products based on the desired purchase date

Best Practices

Best practice is to select a Pick Bin Zone to perform re-slotting on, but if no option for Pick Bin Zone, better to select all option (Refer to ‘How to Use Re-slotting Product tools’ step 1.a)

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