Labeling Setup

This chapter covers the following topics:

Overview

It is assumed that the customer is using a certified 3rd party Label Printing software package and using the asynchronous integration method. The steps for configuring the 3rd party software are not discussed here.

You can print labels automatically as part of a specified business flow, such as PO Receipt, or Ship Confirm, or you can manually requesting a label to be printed for certain material.

When a print request is generated, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications gathers the necessary information to construct the XML file for the 3rd party printing software. There are two ways to determine the label type: manual, and automatic. You determine the label type when you generate a manual print request. The business Flow/label type generates the label type if the label generates automatically. Each Label Type has one default label format the system uses to print labels of that type. The printer is determined according to the current printer assignments.

Once all the necessary information is collected, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications generates the XML instruction and deposits the XML file into the specified directory for the 3rd party label printing software to retrieve and execute.

Related Topics

Label Printing Integration Kit: Oracle Warehouse Management Implementation Guide.

Definitions

Setting Warehouse Management Profile Options

The following profile options need to be set within Oracle Applications:

Setting Up Printers

Printers for label printing are setup in the same way they are normally setup within Oracle Applications with the exception that Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications does not need printer drivers. This is because the third Party software processes the actual print request. You use the system administrator responsibility to create printers. First, you must create a printer type, then create individual printers.

Setting Up Printer Types

The following procedure lists the steps necessary to create printer types.

Note: Before you set up printer types and printers, log in to Oracle Applications, and select the System Administrator Responsibility.

  1. Navigate to Install > Printer > Types top open the Printer Types window.

  2. Enter Label in the type field.

  3. Enter a description in the description field.

  4. Save your work.

Setting Up Printers

The following procedure lists the steps necessary to set up printers.

Note: Before you set up printer types and printers, log in to Oracle Applications, and select the System Administrator Responsibility.

  1. Navigate to Install > Install > Register to open the Printers window.

  2. Enter the label printer name in the Printer field.

  3. Select Label from the types field list of values.

  4. Enter a description in the description field.

  5. Save your work.

    Note: The name that you give the printer in this setup must correspond to the name of the printer as recognized by the 3rd Party printing software.

Assigning Printers

Printers are assigned to Label Types on the Site, Application, Responsibility, Department, Subinventory, User, or Equipment Type levels. When a particular label request has been made, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications will look for printer assignments for the Label Type being printed and use the printer assigned to the Label Type at the most specific level.

Assigning Printer Label Types

Complete the following procedure to assign a printer to a label type:

Note: Before you assign printers, log in to Oracle Applications, and select the Inventory Responsibility.

  1. Navigate to Setup -> Label Printing -> Assign Printers

    The tree view on the left shows the list of documents to which printers can be assigned. The Label Types that Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications supports should appear in this list. The label types are: Material, Serial, Location, Shipping, and Shipping Contents. If a Label Type does not appear in the tree view, right-click on the documents node and select new from the context-sensitive menu.

  2. Select the appropriate Label Type from the List of Values.

    This adds the label type to the tree view.

    Note: In a new installation of Mobile Supply Chain Applications, you must add all of the label types. To add a label type right-click on the Documents node, and select new from the context sensitive menu. Then select the label type you wish to add from the List of Values that appears.

  3. Select a Label Type from the tree view.

  4. Select a printer to associate with the label type from the list of values.

  5. Select a level from the list of values.

  6. Select a Value from the list of values.

  7. Enter a Comment if desired.

  8. Select the Enabled check box to enable the printer.

  9. Select the Default check box to set this as the default for the label type.

  10. Save your work.

Label Formats

You need to define label formats within Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications after you use the third party label design software to define the label formats. The label format designed in the third party software usually contains variable fields that need to be populated with data from Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications. You must define a label format within Oracle Applications that specifies the data elements to include in that format as well as the variables to use in referring to those elements.

Defining Label Formats

The following procedure lists the steps necessary to define label formats.

Note: Before you can define label formats, log in to Oracle Applications, and select the Inventory Responsibility.

  1. Navigate to Setup -> Label Printing -> Label Formats

  2. Select a Label Type from the list of values.

  3. Enter a label name in the Names field.

    This should be the name the third party printing software uses.

  4. Enter a label format description if necessary.

  5. Enter a disable date.

  6. Select the Default Format checkbox to use this format as the default format for the label type.

    Note: Mobile Supply Chain Applications only allows one label format per label type. The default label format is always used.

  7. Save your work.

Defining Label Field Variables

The following procedure lists the steps necessary to define label field variables.

  1. Select the Label Fields and Variables button from the Define Label Formats window.

  2. Select a Field Name from the list of values.

    The contents that appear in the list of values are the values that can be included on a label format of the specified Label Type.

  3. Enter a Field Variable Name.

    The Field Variable Name must match the variable used within the third Party printing software. The Field Variable Name is used as the identifier on the generated XML file.

Related Topics

Defining Label Formats: Oracle Warehouse Management User's Guide

Assigning Label Types to Business Flows

You can assign label types to business flows so when a transaction processes a label print request generates. You can assign label types to business flows Label Types at all levels. To assign label types to business flows complete the following procedure.

Note: Before you can assign label types to business flows, log in to Oracle Applications and select the Inventory responsibility.

To assign label types to business flows:

  1. Navigate to Setup > Label Printing > Assign Label Types.

  2. Select the appropriate Business Flow from the list of values.

    Note: In a new installation of Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications you must add all of the business flows. Follow the same procedure used to add label types to add business flows to the tree structure.

  3. In the Level field, select the level at which you want to control printing for this label type. Valid values are Site, Application, Responsibility, and User.

  4. In the Value field, select the value for the level that you selected in the previous step.

    The Value field is disabled if you select Site level. If you select Application, the list of values displays a list of valid applications, if you select User, the list of values displays a list of valid users, if you select Responsibility, the list values displays a list of valid responsibilities.

  5. Verify the Enabled check box is selected. This indicates this label type can be used to generate the label associated with the business flow. If you deselect the check box, the label cannot be generated for the business flow.

  6. Enter additional information in the Comments field if necessary.

  7. Save your work.

Setup Example

Consider the following setup as an example:

A Printer is created called Label Printer One with Printer Type of Label.

Label Printer One is assigned to the Label Type of Material at the Responsibility Level for materials Mgmt responsibility.

A Label Format called Material Format is created. This format contains the Item and Quantity fields, referenced by the variables ITEM and QTY, respectively.

The Material Label Type is assigned to the business Flow of receipt as the user level, for user RCV10.

According to this setup, when the RCV10 user logs in and performs a Receipt of material (such as a Purchase Order Receipt), an XML file with instructions to print a Material Label of format Material Format to printer label Printer One will be generated and deposited in the specified directory.

Material Label

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Related Topics

Windows and Navigator Paths Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications User's Guide