In The Business Edge, clients use the Wireless Warehouse to pick Orders without a Pick Ticket. The Wireless Warehouse uses barcode scanning to both eliminate the need for pick tickets and ensure accurate picking. The following document will cover how to Allocate Inventory and change product locations through the use of barcode scanning. Before an Order can be allocated using barcode scanning, the Order must be released to the warehouse. For more information on releasing Orders to the warehouse please reference the paperless picking and queue management video or documentation. First, a user will login to the Wireless Warehouse Terminals.
All warehouse users will be set up with a unique login separate from their desktop login. After logging in, the system will ask whether you want to be in live or sample company.
For training purposes, we will be using sample company. The screen below is the Wireless Warehouse main menu.
To begin allocating a document we well select picking/allocation. Depending on the type of document you would like to allocate a user may select to pick/allocate an Order, PPO or Transfer. Clients that run a paperless warehouse will use the pick/allocate next doc.
This feature will select the document with the highest priority from the warehouse picking queue. After selecting pick/allocate next doc, pickers are given an order summary.
The order summary displays heading information from the Order as well as the pack-able line detail. Before allocating a user can make adjustments, move product locations, or split a license plate by selecting any of the respective F-Keys. The F4 show path will display all of the locations a user will be guided to for allocations.
This is useful for a picker to see whether or not they will need a forklift or other type of equipment in order to allocate the document. Pressing Enter on the wireless terminal will take a user to the next screen to start the allocation process. All of the information needed to allocate the detail line is provided on this screen.
The top of the screen shows the Order and line number, along with the Customer the Order is for and the current product to pick. The Lower half of the screen displays which license plate is to be picked and where the license plate is located in the warehouse. In this instance the user is to pick 5000 pcs of license plate 18934 from location RECEIVING.
After locating the license plate the picker will scan the license plate label and notify the system of how many pcs are being allocated from the license plate.
If the user scans a different license plate than the one shown, even one of the same product or lot, an error message will be shown that the wrong license plate was selected.
If the license plate that is being shown to pick is no longer in inventory a user can tell the system the license plate is missing by using F1 mark missing.
The license plate will then be unusable for any Order until the license plate is marked found. Marking license plates missing and/or found along with handling adjustments during picking are covered in-depth during wireless warehouse training.
On occasion a user may want to skip a detail line and come back to it later, when this occurs the F2 skip can be utilized to move the current license plate the end of the picking path.
The F3 more button will give the user the ability to see notes, print a stock label, or view the full description of a product.
The final F-key, F4 don’t use is available based on a user’s permissions. The don’t use key tells the system this license plate can not be used for this particular Order.
After the displayed license plate is scanned, the cursor jumps to the quantity used field.
This field can be defaulted to either the amount needed for optimal speed or 0 which forces the user to input the quantity being used and maintaining the highest level of accuracy.
Please note the removal of any allocations cannot be performed on the wireless terminal and must be done on the desktop version of the business edge.
After confirming the quantity being used, pressing enter on the wireless terminal will bring up the next license plate needed for the Order. Once all the lines have been allocated, pickers are brought to a final screen where they can print a packing list, labels or edit shipment info.
As referenced in the queue management video/documentation an order holding location can be input at this point and is done through the F4 edit shipment info.
Pressing enter on the terminal will finish the Order and bring the user back to the picking & allocation screen. Pressing escape from this screen will take you back to the main menu.
Aside from allocations the wireless terminals can be used for other warehouse tasks as well. One of the most common uses is product moves. A product move tells the system a license plate is moving from one location to another. To perform a product move we will select Product system and then 1 change license plate location.
First a user will scan the license plate being moved and second the location the license plate is being moved to.
After the move you are prompted with the option to print a new label.
Once the label is optionally printed you can scan another license plate and perform another move if needed. Pressing the escape button will return you to the product system menu tree. Changing a license plate location requires that you move the entire license plate quantity. There will be times when only a partial amount of a license plate is being moved and in those instances a license plate split is required.
Splitting a license plate takes a quantity from any given license plate and creates a new unique license plate so the split quantity can be placed in another location. To perform a license plate split, select number 3. Split license plate and then scan the license plate that is being split.
The next screen shows a summary of the scanned license plate.
This is where a user will input the quantity being split to a new license plate. After inputting the quantity, the user will print the newly created license plate label.
A majority of the time after performing a split the new license plate is moved to a different location following the steps shown earlier. Up to this point, we have seen how to allocate, move, and split license plates along with releasing Orders to the queue. These are the most common tasks performed in a warehouse, for more in-depth coverage on unique scenarios please contact a Computer Insights support representative.