Picking Order Items

Picklists

The Skustack Admin portal lets you easily search for existing picklists, generate new ones, monitor their progress, and export them to Excel.

When an item is picked from a bin, it is automatically transferred to the warehouse’s Picking Bin. The picking bin is created by the system, with a unique picking bin for every warehouse. For example, Default Warehouse with ID “86” will have a picking bin named PickingBin Warehouse-86.

There are 3 ways you can pick products:

1. Product Based – Recommended for picking single-item orders.
2. Order Based – Recommended for picking multi-item orders.
3. Kit Based – Recommended for picking kit-only orders.

Ideally, orders should be sorted with filtered Saved searches based on their item status (i.e. single-item, multi-item, kit) before your Picklists are generated. This means you should filter single-item orders and non-kits first, and then generate a Picklist for these products. After that, do the same for multi-item and kits-only orders. The Picklists will then be able to be picked in full based on the selected options. Keep in mind that products will only be available for picking only if the order is paid and in process.

Generate a Picklist

1. Navigate to the Skustack Admin portal at https://xx.skustack.com (replace “xx” with your server ID or team name).
2. Enter your login credentials.
3. On the left, select Orders > Manage Orders.
4. Select your desired orders from the grid. Recommended filters are:
   1. Order Date Range — Preferred date range, the default value is set to Last 120 days.
   2. Shipping Status — Unshipped.
   3. Order Status — Processing.
   4. Dropship Status — Dropship None.
   5. Payment Status — Charged.
   6. Ship From Warehouse — Specific warehouse location.
   7. (Optional) Is On Picklist — Not In Open Picklist (typically used in combination with Client Setting Close all picklists at midnight).
   8. Picked — None or Partially Picked.
   9. Single Item Orders — Include Single or Multi-Item Orders.
   10. Kits — Include or exclude Kit Orders.
5. Access the Actions menu > Generate Pick List.
6. Title your Picklist and select the Warehouse you are generating it for.

Manage Picklists

To manage picklists:

1. Navigate to Picklists > Manage Picklists.
2. Configure your Default filters to make sure that the results display exactly what you need.
3. Click Search. Each filter you apply gets highlighted. If a filter is gray or not displayed at all, it’s not active.
4. To manage the columns in the grid, click the three dots icon on the top right and select Customize Columns. You can:
   1. Reorder columns by dragging them up or down in the list;
   2. Hide columns by clicking the Trash icons;
   3. Add columns by clicking Add column.
5. To arrange the data in a different order, use the Sort by menu.
6. To save your filtering and sorting options, click Save view, enter a Name, and click Save.
7. Select a picklist from the grid and access the Actions menu at the lower right-hand corner to either
   1. Close Picklists
   2. Export to Excel
   3. View Orders In Manage Orders
   4. Export Via Plugin

   or click on a Picklist # to be directed to the Picklist Details page.

Split Picklists

When dealing with a high volume of orders, trying to load all the orders across every shipping station risks a system overload. To mitigate this risk, you can split your picklists by a number of orders per shipper.

1. Open your picklist > Products panel > Select items.
2. Click the arrow icon in the upper-right corner to split the selected items into a new picklist.
3. Click the link in the notification to view your queued job.

Filter and Column Definitions

Picklists will generate with the following default columns:

• SKU — An item’s unique identification number.
• Item — Name of the product.
• Qty — Quantity of units to pick to fill selected orders.
• Location — Location of the item in the warehouse (if set on the product’s Home page).
• Package — Shipping package type (if set on the product’s Shipping Preference page).
• Inventory — The available quantity you have on hand to pick: Aggregate + Unshipped = Inventory. This is not necessarily the total physical quantity.
• UPC — The item’s barcode.

Additional columns can be enabled from Client Settings:

• Replacement SKU
• Replacement SKU LOC
• Weight 

The following filters can be used to filter SKUs and quantities on the picklist:

Instead of generating a picklist of all orders and then using the picklist filters, it may be more efficient to filter the orders first. For example, you may want to use the Back Order filter to filter out orders with items that are out of stock. To include orders like this in your picklist, go to Client Settings and check the Consider ReplacementSKU Qty in BackOrder Calculation box.

Unpick Order Items

1. Open your desired order.
2. In the Items panel, click on the arrows icon.
3. Select an amount that you are unpicking and put in a negative value of how much you want to unpick (for example, if you want to unpick 10 units, put in -10)
4. Select a bin and click Unpick.