...
B2C Order Processing in B2B Warehouse setup
Blue area is where Increff USP will be used.
| Drawio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Overview
Key Idea here is to expose huge inventory lying in the B2B mother warehouse on Marketplaces using Increff Integrations and using sellfast (SFS) as a Unified Seller Panel aka Increff USP.
Incref USP is an extension to Increff OMS core.
If client is already using Increff WMS in any of their warehouses, then they would already have Increff OMS module, and enabling another B2B warehouse is creating a node in increff oms module.
Serialization is done after receiving the orders.
...
Expose B2B ERP inventory to all marketplaces using Sellfast CSV Inventory upload USP and receive orders.
Generate Picklist in Sellfast USP on the basis of Marketplace SLAs and Items in orderorders.
Create outward Orders in ERP on the basis of above picklists.
Pick Inventory from B2B Warehouse and send it to Sellfast Area for order processingB2C area.
Picklist wise Serialize Inventory and do Sorting sorting and Pigeonhole pigeonhole consolidation.
Pack B2C orders using serial ids and generate invoice and shipping labels.
Manifest and despatch
Exposing inventory from Sellfast
...
CSV upload of sku wise absolute salable qty or sku wise incremental salable qty.
Or Via APIs
Picklist generation
...
Once orders are received in Sellfast, users can generate picklists on various logics to be given to ERP for picking.
Ideally 1 Picklist should be generated every hour or at a fixed interval to maintain distributed flow.
Sellfast gives the option to the supervisor to upload an order csv to use their own logic of generating picklist.
From Sellfast UI picklist can be generated on basis of count of orders, channels and SLA
During sorting and processing, sellfast will optimize orders in 1 picklist by SLA (agnostic of channel).
.
Using Picklist to create B2B orders in ERP
Ideally 1 picklist should be mapped to 1 b2b B2B order in ERP.
If ERP can take the picklist Id as reference, then multiple B2B orders can also be mapped to 1 picklist.
Ideally 1 Picklist can be generated every hour or at a fixed interval to maintain distributed flow.
For example
Picklist Id | B2B order (ERP) Order number | No. of Items |
1001 | DN1010 | 200 |
1002 | DN1011 | 100 |
1002 | DN1012 | 100 |
...
B2B orders will be created in ERP mapped to picklists in SellfastUSP.
For ERP orders, we don't need to know the channel mappings, i.e B2B orders can be channel agnostic as anyway sorting will be done in SellfastUSP.
This will increase picking efficiency in ERP.
After picking, ERP will do box-wise packing for B2B orders ( regular process. )
In this step ERP will confirm shipping of X no. of items for this picklist and B2B order.
USP Configurations and Settings
External Item Id Generation and pasting
Sellfast USP sorting, pigeonhole and packing will work on External Item Id barcodes.
Here the term external Item barcodes is used, as sellfast USP is agnostic of from “where” these barcodes Ids are generated (as long as they are unique).
Although sellfast USP will give options of generating stickers for ease of operations
There could be any logic of generating these barcodes. Sellfast USP will support these methods of barcode generation
Generate Barcodes in Bulk by Qty
...
In Sellfast Barcodes Printing, give inputs of
Prefix 1, Prefix 2 and count of item stickers to be printed. And sellfast will print those many Unique External Item Id barcodes.
For example :
...
Prefix 1
...
Prefix 2
...
Count
...
1001
...
DN1011
...
100
System will generate 100 stickers. Here 001 - 1001010101
001 is the sequence number, i.e 100 barcodes were there then this will be 1 to 100.
1001010101 is the unique number generated from the system internally.
...
Increff
...
1001
...
DN1011
...
001 - 1001010101
...
Barcode
Generate Barcodes in Bulk by CSV upload
...
In Sellfast Barcodes Printing screen, CSV upload tab, upload a CSV of your own unique Ids, (could be a list from your vendor or could be just an Excel generated sequence)
For example :
...
Prefix 1
...
Prefix 2
...
Barcode-Id
...
1001
...
DN1011
...
ABC-100
...
1001
...
DN1011
...
ABC-101
System will generate stickers like this. System will check if “1001-DN1011-ABC-101” is unique in CSV.
...
Increff
...
1001
...
DN1011
...
1001- DN1011 - ABC-101
...
Barcode
Generate Barcodes One by One
...
In Sellfast Barcodes Printing screen, in One-by-One tab
Input value of Prefix 1, Prefix 2 as fixed inputs, and scan SKU
For example :
...
Prefix 1
...
Prefix 2
...
SKU
...
1001
...
DN1011
...
ABC
System will generate ONE sticker like this.
System will ask for scanning External-Item-Id again.
At this point we will create mapping of Sku and external-item id in the system. This mapping can be used in sorting to reduce the sku scan.
...
Increff
...
1001
...
DN1011
...
1001- DN1011 - ABC
...
Barcode
Sticker will not contain sku value.
Sorting and inbounding process
Sorting and Inbounding can be done by 3 methods,
By Picklist-Id, SKU and External-Item-Id Scan
By Picklist-Id and External-Item-Id Scan
Picklist-Id and SKU Scan (for those who don’t want to use External-Item-Id)
Sorting method can be chosen from the UI configuration popup in the sorting screen.
If Barcodes are generated in BULK or by CSV upload, then since the system does not have sku and External-Item-Id mapping hence Sorting can only be done by scanning SKU.
Picklist-Id is a constant input and does not need to be scanned every time.
Sorting by SKU, External-Item-Id
...
If the Item Ids are generated in Bulk, then use this method.
Scan Picklist id, sku and external Item Id, system will internally do a lookup and assign this item to an order with least SLA.
Sorting by External-Item-Id
If items Ids are generated one by one, then use this method.
...
Scan Picklist id, External Item Id, system will internally do a lookup and assign this item to an order with least SLA.
Single Order Process
...
System will show details which items belong/are mapped to Single item order.
These can be directly taken to pack stations.
Pigeonhole Process for Multi Order Items
...
If Item is assigned to multi-item order, then pigeonhole consolidation is required.
For the First item of an order, the system will take an input scan of pigeonhole id for this order.
For subsequent items of this order, the system will show Pigeonhole Id to be scanned and take input of pigeonhole Id again as confirmation.
For the last item of this order, the system will show a popup that this XYA pigeonhole is full and can be emptied and taken to packing.
...
Sorting and inbounding process
Packing
Packing can be done by 2 methods,
By External-Item-Id Scan
By Picklist-Id and SKU Scan (for those who don’t want to use External-Item-Id)
Packing by Order Id
USP Order Packing and label generation
For multi item orders, confirmation packing is not allowed until all items are scanned.
Packing By External-Item-Id Scan
...
Scan Eternal-Item Ids, press confirm packing and generate a label.
Packing By SKU Scan
...
Scan Picklist-Id and SKUs press confirm packing and generate a label.
Packing By Order Id Scan
...
.
Manifest & Handover
Manifest
...
Scan AWBs to create manifest to make packets ready to dispatch. USP Manifest
Handover
...
Scan manifest Id to Handover when the currier person comes for pickup. USP Handover
Return Processing
Returns Gate Entry
Return Processing
Taking Inventory Back to B2B warehouse.
On each return processing station, inventory will get segregated in two buckets, QC pass and QC fail. USP Return Management
Packing App Steps
Here Packing app can be used to track and send back items to B2B warehouses.
...