How to use the FIFO & LIFO method?

By default, all orders and SKUs in Cubyn take the “default” picking strategy, meaning that picking priority is not assigned to any items and picking does not follow a particular order. 

Assigning a specific picking order to your out-bounded items is now available by selecting a custom picking strategy for your orders 🚀 🔢

Available Custom Picking Strategies

• FIFO (First-In, First-Out): Picking priority is assigned to items with the oldest lot date 
• LIFO (Last-In, First-Out): Picking priority is assigned to items with the most recent lot date 

💡 At Cubyn, the Lot date can be equal to: 

• By default, the reception date ( date we received your items in our warehouse) or
• The expiry date you provided when creating the WIO 

Picking strategies are available for the following groups:

1. By Order Type: assign a specific picking strategy for each type of order ( ex. assign pallet orders to be picked by LIFO and parcel orders to be picked by FIFO).
2. By SKU: if not all SKUs require a specific picking strategy, you can select which SKUs will follow either the “default” or  a “custom” strategy. If the SKU is assigned a  “custom” strategy, then it will follow the picking strategy of the order (FIFO / LIFO). 

Steps 

1. Activation: please contact our support team at help@cubyn.com to activate this feature
2. Select which SKUs will follow either a “default” or “custom” strategy (ex. You can assign a custom picking strategy to SKU: “dogfood” , and a default picking strategy to SKU: “dogtoy”)
3. Select your preferred picking strategy for each order type: ( ex. You can assign pallet orders to be picked by LIFO and parcel orders to be picked by FIFO).
4. Provide lot information: 

• • Provide us with the lot date for each of your inbounds (WIO) *
  • Otherwise, for unknown lot dates, we will use the reception date as the lot number by default (reception date is the date these items were received in our warehouse)

* You can only assign one lot date for each SKU in a WIO. Also,  please take into consideration that if you choose to provide Cubyn with an expiry date for a given SKU, you should provide this information every time we receive new items from that SKU, at the risk of mixing reception date and expiry date.  

5. Once you receive confirmation from Cubyn, your orders will be fulfilled according to your picking strategy! 🔢