Job Management
Job Source Type
WCS jobs are mainly categorized into two sources: WMS-Initiated Jobs and System-Generated Jobs. Here is the explanation of the two source types.
WMS-Initiated Jobs
These are business-driven tasks pushed by the upstream WMS system. Common scenarios include:
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Goods-to-Person Picking
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Full Case/Pallet Outbound
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Manual Picking to Cart
The WCS generalizes these scenarios into two Task Types: Pick Task and Transport Task.
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Pick Task: Triggered by WMS-issued Pick Actions. The WCS decomposes or combines these actions based on operational strategy to generate pick tasks.
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Transport Task: Represents the physical transfer of containers or shelves (e.g., moving a rack to a workstation or a pallet to the outbound station). WMS sends these directly in the Transport Task format.
System-Generated Jobs
These are tasks automatically created by WCS based on internal strategies such as equipment scheduling or capacity balancing, such as parking of idle vehicles, cross-region capacity allocation, and charging tasks for low-battery vehicles.
The WCS generalizes these scenarios into two Task Types: Movement Task and Charge Task.
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Movement Task: Used to dispatch devices to a specified location (e.g., idle robot parking, inter-zone transfer).
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Charge Task: Represents a charging mission for low-battery devices, automatically assigning robots to designated charging stations.
Management Interface
Summary Dashboard
Displays a statistical overview of all jobs by status, using graphical charts for clarity. Key metrics include:
Received Actions, Finished Actions, and Today Finished Actions.
Search & View
To help users quickly loacte the desired job records, it supports multi-condition search using the following criteria:
Job ID, Order ID, WMS Task, WMS Action ID, Action Type, Item Code, WCS Task, Status, Created Time
The results will be displayed with key fields in the job list, allowing users to quickly browse job information and view detailed records and process via clicking on Job ID or WCS Task.
Clicking on Job ID switches the Job Detail Page, where users can perform a Repriority operation to adjust the job's execution priority based on urgency or exception handling.
