Advanced Scenarios

Catchweight Management provides the flexibility required to handle products whose actual weight varies throughout procurement, warehousing, inventory management, and sales processes. The following scenarios illustrate how organizations can use Catchweight Management to support real-world operational requirements while maintaining visibility of both inventory quantities and actual weight.

Purchasing Variable-Weight Products

A supplier delivers products that are purchased in standard handling units, such as boxes, crates, or pallets, but where the actual weight differs for every delivery.

Using Catchweight Management, users can:

• Receive products using the operational unit of measure.
• Record the actual weight received.
• Maintain both quantity and weight information throughout the inventory lifecycle.
• Ensure weight information remains available for subsequent warehouse and sales processes.

Selling Products Based on Actual Weight

Organizations often sell products that are picked and shipped in standard units but require actual weight tracking.

For example:

• A customer orders 20 boxes of product.
• The quantity shipped is 20 boxes.
• The actual weight is captured and maintained throughout the sales process.

Catchweight Management ensures that quantity and weight information remain linked from the sales order through shipment and invoicing processes.

Warehouse Operations for Variable-Weight Products

Warehouse teams often need to handle products whose weight is not known until receiving, picking, or shipping activities are performed.

Catchweight Management supports warehouse processes such as:

• Receiving.
• Put-away.
• Internal movements.
• Picking.
• Shipment preparation.

This ensures that operational users can continue working within standard warehouse workflows while maintaining visibility of actual weight information.