Every picking state, field, and control explained — the worklist filters, the line-item counts, the two ways to close a picking out, and who is allowed to run each one.
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Your line lead radios up mid-shift: how many cases of jasmine rice are still on the pull for Production, and which shelf are they sitting on? You open the picking and read the answer off the screen. A holds the whole job — the lots, the shelves, the case counts, and who pulled what. This is the field guide to every state and number on it, on the Picking screen under Inventory. Line+
The Picking screen opens on every picking for the company you're working in, newest first. Each row carries the picking number, a status badge, a type badge, and a line of context beneath it: the destination, the expected picking date, and how many items are on the pull.
A row of controls above the list narrows what you see:
New, in the top right, opens the builder for a fresh picking. It shows only for a role allowed to both add and approve pickings, because a picking is created already approved.
A picking's status is its stage, shown as a badge on the list and at the top of the picking itself.
Statuses follow the work
You never set a picking's status from a menu. Bettr reads it from what has actually happened — cases pulled, the picking closed out — so the badge always matches the last real thing that was done. Pick the lines and close the picking with the buttons on its screen, and the status catches up.
The type badge says how a picking came to be.
Open a picking and its heading carries the number and the current status and type badges, with a line beneath it: the destination, the expected picking date, and when it was created. A picking whose shipped delivery synced to your accounting system also shows an Open in Odoo SO link here.
Every lot to pull is a line. Each line shows the product name and code and a Complete or Pending badge — Pending until every case on the line is picked, then Complete. Alongside sits the running count and where the stock lives:
While the picking is approved, each unpicked line carries a Pick button, and a line with nothing picked against it carries a remove control.
Free text for the whole picking. It shows only when there is a note to show.
Pick on a line opens a small dialog that repeats the numbers — how many to pick, how many are already picked, how many remain, and the lot — then takes the cases you actually pulled:
Back on the picking, Scan QR Code jumps straight to the line a scanned lot belongs to. When one lot sits on more than one line, it lists them so you choose which to pick against.
An approved picking with at least one line carries two ways to finish, both run by a role with the pick permission:
Either way, the cases you picked move off your on-hand count as a shipped delivery, recorded against the exact lots that left. That delivery lands on your books as a sales order, so the stock that walked out stays counted and traceable. Close a picking with nothing picked and it lands as Cancelled, with no delivery.
Finishing can't be undone
A closed picking — Picked, Partially picked, or Cancelled — is read-only, and the shipped delivery it created stays on the books. Unpicked cases are not held open for a later pass; what you didn't pick simply stays on the shelf. Pull the quantities you truly took before you close it out.
While a picking is Approved, you can still shape it, each control its own permission:
Discard hides a picking from every list, at any stage. Any stock the crew already drew stays recorded — discarding hides the picking, it does not put cases back on the shelf.
Each action on a picking is gated by its own permission, so a role can be given only the parts of the job it owns: