With Contributing Author: Twila Chavez

Cartonization – What is it and How Can It Help Your Warehouse? Have you and your colleagues been discussing if and how to implement Cartonization?

Oracle EBS Warehouse Management can provide this functionality.Cartonization is the process that suggests a container to pack items based on constraints such as cubic volume of items and container volume.

 Cartonization Uses:

Oracle Warehouse Management uses cartonization in three places:

  1. Sales order and manufacturing picking
  2. Prepack for manufacturing completion
  3. Inventory bulk pack 

Customer can have the ability to choose and create robust rules that automatically determine the best container during the pick release process.

There are four types of Cartonization

  1. Single Item– An item is always matched to the same container based on the static relationship you setup in the item/container relationship window.
  2. Mixed Item– Uses the contained-container item capacity and dimension restrictions defined on the master item window and checks it against the category and category set setup as well.
  3. Pick Slip Grouping– Generate an LPN for all items that belong to the same pick slip.
  4. Customer Algorithm– Uses a stub API to interface with customer-defined cartonization rules.

Process:

The cartonization algorithm Oracle WMS uses, minimizes the number of containers used at each level in the packaging hierarchy, based on volume, weight and minimum percent fill settings of the containers. This algorithm also verifies the dimensions of the packed material can fit inside the dimensions of container.

 This is just a sneak peak of the cartonization setup and functionality.

For more details of the setup and a demo please review to notes:

INV Webinar Series: WMS Cartonization [Video] (Doc ID 1375161.1)

EBS WMS: Cartonization Setup and Diagnostics (Doc ID 1496099.1)