New functionalities in Production Orders, Stock Movements, more flexible and adaptable Picking, and much more...
🆕 Improvements & New Functionalities
🌐 Web Application
📦 A new functionality has been implemented in the Stock Availability Lookup application, allowing warehouse managers to consult stock movements by product batch and therefore get more immediate and straightforward visibility of the quantities that entered and left the warehouse for a given material batch, by date.
🔰 Improvements have been made to the Product Batches application, with the aim of simplifying batch management and strengthening traceability. The main new features include:
New fields in the batch record, where data such as partner batch number, internal identifier, manufacturing, expiry, freezing, and packaging dates are now visible;
New Stock Availability tab, which shows, for each batch, the locations and warehouses where stock exists, the respective quantities, unit of measure, stock status (e.g., available, blocked, in quarantine), and date of the last movement;
New batch management actions, allowing users to activate or deactivate the batch, edit its details (depending on permissions), and change its status, for example marking it as blocked or in quarantine.
These improvements increase visibility over batches in circulation and make quality control and traceability processes simpler and more effective.
A new functionality has been created in the Production Orders application that allows production orders to be started by partner, making it possible to separate, while still on the line, products intended for different customers. This functionality is especially useful in contexts such as packaging, where it allows, for example, products and co-products from the same line to be sent alternately to different partners, ensuring that each one is correctly labeled according to its destination.
A new functionality has been created in the Production Orders applications that ensures the quality controls associated with production movements are always validated by the user before completing the movements.
With this improvement, greater standardization of quality controls across all movements and more complete traceability throughout the production process are ensured.
⚠️ NOTE: if they do not validate, the user cannot complete the production movement.
Several improvements have been made to the Production Orders applications, with the aim of making the process more efficient and easier to use on a daily basis:
The Line Manager field has been added to the search filters, allowing a production manager to quickly identify who is assigned to each line and, if needed, communicate directly with that person, making coordination easier;
The product list has been reorganized to show main products and co-products at the top, improving readability and selection;
In production entry confirmations, the system now automatically fills in the NVC and the order batch, reducing manual work;
When creating a new production order that does not come from planning, the system only shows products that belong to the selected line and have an associated production version, avoiding incorrect choices and making order creation easier.
A new Receive Sales Return Shipments application has been created, allowing products returned by customers to be received, even when the return is made in several shipments (partial deliveries). This new functionality brings greater flexibility and accuracy to the returns process, better adapting to the operational reality of factories where customer returns are sometimes received from several addresses, in phased deliveries.
A new functionality has been created in the Goods Receipts and Goods Issues applications that, in manual picking flows, allows users to pick by “cloning” previous picks from the same document. This improvement eliminates much of the manual work in subsequent picks, making the process much faster and more efficient for users.
An improvement has been made to the Production Lines application (Equipment tab), allowing users to configure the order in which the various products on a line are produced.* This means that whenever production orders with multiple products are sent to a given line, BRAINR will automatically respect the pre-configured order. This eliminates manual work for operators, significantly increasing process efficiency.
📱 Mobile
A new functionality has been created that allows handling units to be associated immediately after each pick, making the process more fluid and aligned with operational reality. This option can be configured in the back office, in Document Series, allowing teams to decide whether they want to associate handling units as they pick or only at the end, as was the case until now (also mentioned below in the Back-Office section).
⚠️ NOTE: In an upcoming version, this functionality will also be extended to quality controls.
A new functionality has been created in the mobile application that allows users to choose whether they want to pick the product or the location first, in a simple and intuitive way. With this improvement, users gain greater flexibility and adaptability to the different situations that arise throughout the day on the factory floor, making the picking process more efficient and better suited to operational reality.
Improvements have been made to the user experience in the picking process, making mandatory fields and missing fields more visible during picks.
🪩 Back-Office
A new configuration has been implemented in Document Lines, allowing users to choose whether they want to classify handling units at the moment of each pick or only at the end, after all picks are completed. (see video in the mobile section)
🎯 Bug Corrections
🌐 Web Application
An error has been fixed in the Stock Availability Lookup application, which prevented reports from being downloaded correctly.
An error has been fixed in the Production Orders application, in the Production Entries tab, where, for some materials, an arrow indicating substitute materials was displayed but, when clicked, did not show any information. With this fix, substitute materials are now always shown correctly.
An issue related to time zone and daylight saving time configuration in the database has been fixed, which affected the visibility of some operations in reports. Example: during daylight saving time, operations carried out from 00:00 at the factory were recorded in the database as having occurred at 23:00 on the previous day, which meant they were not included in the reports for the correct day. With this fix, records now correctly reflect the real moment of the operation, ensuring full reliability in the information presented.
An error has been fixed in the Production Orders application, where, when the user declared production entries and then registered a reversal, the final order quantity was not updated correctly.
With this fix, the produced quantity now correctly reflects all records, including reversals.
A broader effort has also been made to improve how errors are handled and communicated to users. Several errors affecting the user experience were identified and resolved, and more contextual information is now provided whenever an error occurs, helping users better understand what happened and act in a more informed way.