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How to enable Sage 100 wave picking and wave receiving in your warehouse

August 28, 2019 by Darcy Boerio

Warehouses aren’t for storing inventory, they’re for moving inventory. 

Efficient warehouses will find the fastest path to keep inventory flowing. There are a number of different strategies to accomplish this, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Some of the commonly used procedures include split picking, bin allocations for direct picking, zone picking, and of course, the topic of this article, which is wave picking/receiving.


Wave picking and receiving are processes that pre-determine the way you move throughout the warehouse to maximize productivity. Items for multiple orders are picked in one pass, minimizing pickers’ “footprints” and keeping inventory on the move.

Let’s break down the two sides to the wave concept. You may find that both are options that could streamline your operations, or perhaps just one or the other. Every warehouse is different. 

Wave Receiving

Waves allow you to group multiple POs together to receive by item. For example, if you receive a large shipment that has multiple items for multiple POs, there’s no need to sort items by purchase order before recording receipts. Simply scan the items in, and they’ll be allocated to the appropriate PO.

Related and based on the wave receiving concept is ScanForce’s new Container Receipt Management (CRM) offering, which is the answer to efficiently receiving items from multiple POs that all arrive together unsorted in a single container. CRM allows you to receive items in a container while it’s still in transit, then verify contents once it arrives, as well as track container details such as container ID numbers and other shipment related info.

Wave Picking

For Picking, waves allow you to pick multiple orders at one time using the most efficient path through the warehouse. With wave picking, your picking order is sorted by bin location rather than SO. This lets you walk the warehouse ONE TIME, rather than duplicating efforts and making multiple trips to the same locations.

A simple analogy for wave picking involves going grocery shopping armed with a shopping list. If your list is in alphabetical order, you will end up going back and forth through aisles, hitting some aisles multiple times. You might go to the produce section for bananas, then over to the meat department for chicken, then back to product for grapes. And so on. Not very efficient!

Scanforce integrated to Sage 100cloud enableds improved wholesale, logistic, loading, shipment and processing within your warehouse

But if your list is sorted by aisle, and the aisles are sorted in location order on your list, you’ll achieve a seamless single path through the store and be on your way!

Read more on this concept here: A Warehouse Nightmare

Fully integrated with Sage 100 / Sage 100cloud

As with all ScanForce solutions, wave picking and receiving in ScanForce are seamlessly integrated with Sage 100, including Sage 100cloud Multi-Bin Basic if you have items in multiple bin locations. Information about quantities picked and received populate the inventory records in Sage for full visibility into whats been picked or received.

Want to learn more? Watch this 20-minute recorded webinar, and we’ll explain what wave picking/receiving is, and what types of warehouse operations can benefit from it. And we’ll show you how easy it is to implement in ScanForce and Sage 100.

Watch “Ride the Warehouse Wave: Wave Picking and Receiving for Sage 100

Filed Under: Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: picking, receiving, sage 100cloud, scanforce, warehouse management, wave

Sage Insights 2010 Google Wave Collaboration – Live

May 14, 2010 by Wayne Schulz

Are you attending Sage Insights 2010?

Insights is Sage North America’s conference where a few thousand consultants gather to learn about the latest Sage products and the future releases. This year it is being held in Denver Colorado from May 17-20, 2010.

Attending? Watching from home? Would you like to share notes, feedback, ideas and questions with other people attending the conference?

An experimental Google Wave which is unofficial and not sponsored or affiliated with Sage has just gone live. This Wave will offer you a place to make notes or share observations with other people at the conference. These could be centered around the technical sessions and product keynotes offered during the four day conference – or perhaps are just questions that you want to ask or observations you would like to make.

You can view the opening page of the Wave below which I’ve embedded to give you an idea of the topics being discussed. To participate you’ll have to follow these steps:

a. If you do not already have a Google Wave account – apply for one here.

b. Join the Google Group that will give you access to edit the Google Waves that are shared with the group. Once you’re in the group simply create a Wave an add in the contract “insightsconference@googlegroups.com” to your contact list and to your Wave’s which will make them shareable (viewable) by everyone at the conference.

c: For those experienced with Wave — all of the conference content will be tagged with insights10

To find conference waves after you’ve joined the group search for “group:insightsconference@googlegroups.com” (Tip: You must be a group member to see or participate in any Waves)


Filed Under: mas200, Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: Google Wave, navigation, sage, wave

Schulz Consulting providing MAS 90 and MAS 200 support and collaboration via Google Wave

October 14, 2009 by Wayne Schulz

Schulz Consulting is now active on the new Google Wave service that’s presently in a limited preview release.

Google Wave is the next step beyond email. It allows for real time group conversations where every participant can view a complete history of the discussions. Simple email exchanges often omit large parts of conversations to anyone not on the email distribution list.

Future uses of Google Wave may involve collaborating on workarounds for software issues, real time seminars where participants can comment and add to the topics as well as technical support tracking where more than one company contact could have access to a complete history of the items that have been discussed.

Because Google Wave is in a limited testing preview you must first request an invitation from Google to participate (request).

If you are already on Google Wave you may connect to Wayne Schulz via wayneschulzct@googlewave.com

Filed Under: Google Wave, Knowledgebase, Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: Google Wave, knowledgebase, mas200, Sage 100 ERP, support, technical, wave, Wayne Schulz

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