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- Time and travel optimization: Global picking limiting back-and-forth trips and improving process flow.
- Simplifies order sorting after a picking session.
- Increased productivity: Separation of tasks (picking and sorting) allowing greater efficiency and fewer errors.
- Improved service quality and speed: Fewer preparation errors, faster shipment and better handling of peak activity.
2. Prerequisites ✔️:
- Have completed a picking session via PDA
- Have set up an apiary in your Shippingbo account
- Feature available from the Premium + pack.
3. How does the sorting session work?
The sorting session allows you to sort the products picked during your picking session. They are distributed into an apiary made up of several slots, each slot corresponding to one order. Once sorting is complete, you can ship the orders more easily.
Example: You have picked 50 products during a picking session. Thanks to the sorting session, you will scan each product, and Shippingbo will tell you which slot of the apiary to place it in. Each slot is associated with a specific order.
4. Activate the sorting session
To activate this feature, you need to set up an apiary in your Shippingbo account.
- Go to the menu Configuration → Logistics → Apiaries:
- Click on Add to create an apiary:
- Once on the apiary page, add slots by clicking on Add a slot:
5. Use the sorting session
- Go to the menu Preparation and select a preparation session for which you did the picking with your PDA
- Click on the green button Sorting session:
- Select the apiary in which you want to sort your orders:
- Scan the first product, and Shippingbo will tell you which slot of the apiary to place it in. Then scan the slot to confirm the action:
If you scan a product that is part of an order whose picking was incomplete, see 3.5
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Once all the products have been scanned and assigned, you will be redirected to the print page.
➡️ If this is not the case, at least one of your orders is incomplete or not sorted. Click on Finish sorting and go to printing to see the orders blocking the transition to printing.
➡️ In the case of an unsorted order, you will click on Exit the run and empty the slot.
➡️ In the case of an incomplete order, if you have enabled the partial shipment option, you will have the choice between Exit the run and empty the slot to postpone the preparation of the order, or Ship partially. (See the tutorial on partial shipment here)
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Scan the 1st slot and you will access the print page. If you have automated label generation, the label will come out as soon as you have scanned your apiary slot.
Once the first label is generated, the screen takes you back to the page where you scan the apiary slots, and you will need to scan all your slots:
6. Check the availability of your apiaries
To view the status of your apiaries, follow the steps below:
- Go to the menu Configuration → Logistics → Apiaries.
- In the table that appears, you will see the current status of each apiary:
- Free: The apiary is available for a new sorting session.
- Occupied: The apiary is already used in an ongoing sorting session. The ID of that session will be displayed.
💠Note:
This allows you to manage your apiaries efficiently and to plan your upcoming sorting sessions according to apiary availability.
We also invite you to watch our video showing how the fixed apiary preparation process works by clicking on the image below:
⚒️ Recommendation:
Before fully using the feature described in this tutorial, we strongly recommend running a test phase with your own settings to check that the result matches your expectations. As the customer remains fully responsible for the actions carried out in the Shippingbo account, these tests are essential to use the tool with complete peace of mind.
To go further 🛫:
- Perform a sorting session from your PDA