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Simon

Hi I have the following problem and don't see any solution so far in Odoo.

I have one warehouse which contains very small and light products and also very heavy and big products.

The heavy products are packed and shipped in one step. Lifting them again for a pick pack process would be too hard for the packers.

The light products should be picked first by using picking wave and then packed to save some time.

Now every now and then it happens that a customer who bought heavy products also buys a light product.

How can I do the setup.

At best the solution would be that as soon a I have to pick a product from a shelf which is defined as "ship in one step" all products have to be picked in one step.

However Odoo (as far as I see it) only allows me to create two different warehouses to achieve this. However in this case products can not be picked for one order any more in the same picking process.

Thank you for your help

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Jaideep
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Hi Simon,

Believe you can achieve this by creating 2 routes for your products or product categories (Heavy ; Light) in the same warehouse.

1. Be sure to enable Multi step routes - Settings > Inventory > Warehouse

2. Set warehouse routes - Inventory > configuration > warehouses -- on the warehouse template select 'Outgoing Shipments' to 2 steps.

3. Create a new Route & rule for heavy products (1 step) - Inventory > Configuration > Routes > Create
a. select if you would like to apply to products or product categories
b. Add a rule -- Action 'Pull From'; Operation type - 'Delivery Order' ; Source location - 'WH/Stock';  Destination location - 'Partner Locations/ Customer'

4. Assign the route to product on product template or to product categories - Inventory > Configuration > Product Categories. 'Routes' field on the form.

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Expected behavior of this configuration

- An additional "Pick" operation is created in Inventory > overview

- SO for light product only - Odoo creates 2 operations, 1 for 'Delivery order' with status waiting for another operation and 1 for 'Pick'. Once the picking is validated, the delivery operation (shipping) can be validated.


- SO for heavy product only - only 1 operation is created 'Delivery Order', process is as you have currently.


- SO for heavy & light - 2 operations are created 'Delivery order' for all products on SO and 'Pick' only for light products. Once the picking of light products is validating, delivery order for complete SO can be validated.

Hope this helps!

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Simon
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Woow Jaideep Thank you so much for your help. It nearly works like a charm. What I could achieve is

1. in case there is only light products there is a pick and pack process. (Perfect)

2. in case there is only heavy products there is only a pack process (without picking) (Perfect)

3. in case there is a mix of heavy and light products I have the problem that I have 1 picking process and two packing processes. The thing is most likely that the picking process sends the products from stock to "Warehouse:Delivery orders" and from there to the customer whereas the heavy products are send direct from "Warehouse:Stock" to the customer. In this case Odoo does not have the same source location for the shipment and creates two shippings. I would prefer to have it all in one shipping. Thank you

Jaideep
Hi Simon,

Sorry, my bad.. the source location on the route for heavy products (1 step route) requires to be Source location - 'WH/Output'

This would ensure that 1 delivery order is generated for a SO with all products and an additional 'Pick" operation only for the light products.

What you mention is correct since the source location aren't the same it creates 2 shipping. WH/Stock & WH/Output are the locations. You would also require to configure putaway rules related to these product categories, to ensure stock availability at these locations. Also, consider renaming these default locations in a way that they identify with your physical location nomenclature.

Thanks for validating and providing feedback

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Simon
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Hi Jaipeed,

sorry for bothering you again. I have tried your suggestion

"Sorry, my bad.. the source location on the route for heavy products (1 step route) requires to be Source location - 'WH/Output'"

but I think it is still not correct or at least I don't get it working.

The light products (the two step route) goes from stock to output and from output to the customer. If for the heavy products I set the route as Source location - 'WH/Output' I still need to get it there. Since the heavy products are lying on stock I need to get them from stock to output somehow and then from output to the customer which would be again two steps.

Or did I get your answer wrong?

Jaideep

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Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 3:07 PM
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Subject: Re: Picking steps depending on product

Hi Jaideep,

Thank you a lot for the clarification. I now understand and you are absolutely right. I just imagined WH/Output being a place just for shipments however never concidered this place as a possible place for stock which of course can also be used as.

So as you say if I store heavy products in Output and create my shelves etc there Odoo will ask me to move light products from stock to Output and since heavy products are already in Output only one shipping process will be created towards the customer from Output.

Awesome answer Jaideep and thank you a lot.

Simon

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Jaideep Jagannathan schrieb am 24.06.2021 12:42 (GMT +02:00):

Hi Simon,

What you mention is absolutely correct. Heavy product would require to be moved from Stock to output, this doesn't require to be done at the time of delivery but at the time of storage.

WH/Stock or WH/Output are locations and, in more way, than 1 represent a physical area within your warehouse. Let's assume you store Heavy in area A and light in area B. For delivering an order, a light product is first moved from area A (stock) to area B (output) then shipped. However, for heavy product, since they are already stored in Area B they are shipped direct to customer.

Prior to initiating 2 step deliveries, inventory had only 1 location (WH/Stock) and all your products were stored in that location. With 2 steps, Odoo has split the warehouse into 2 identifiable locations - WH/Stock & WH/Output.

Now, we would need to identify to Odoo the storage location for each of your products, so inventory can keep track. This can be done in multiple ways 1. if you buy you can modify in the receive routes 2. If you manufacture you can modify the manufacturing routes 3. You can define 'Putaway rules' for the product category, so that each time a product of this category arrives in a location it is automatically moved to appropriate location.

The 3rd option is what I had suggested in my post

>>> You would also require to configure putaway rules related to these product categories, to ensure stock availability at these locations <<<<

You can define this from Inventory > Product categories >Putaway Rules (on top right of the form), Here you can create a rule for Heavy product category -> when a product arrives in WH/Stock --> Store to WH/Output

The putaway rule will keep track of stock the stored location of product

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