Generating Physical Inventory Tags
You use physical inventory tags to record the physical counts of inventory items. Physical inventory tags represent actual hard copy tags that some companies use to count inventory items. A tag contains the count for a group of a given item. Although you can record only one item on a tag, multiple tags can reference the same item, with each tag referring to a unique physical location for an item.
Prerequisites
To generate tags:
You can also choose a physical inventory from the Physical Inventories Summary window and choose Generate tags from the Special menu or you can choose the Tags button from the Define Physical Inventory window.
2. Enter the name of the physical inventory.
4. Indicate whether you want to show serial numbers on the physical inventory tags.
If you choose not to show serial numbers on the tags, you get a tag for each item but you have to match the serial numbers to the items manually.
You can enter a value in this field only if you selected Default tags in the Tag Type field.
5. Enter the starting tag number.
Tag numbers may be alphanumeric, but you can increment only the numeric portion.
Attention: When entering a starting tag number be sure that it contains the total number of possible digits that a tag can have. For example, if your tag numbers can have up to five digits and you want the starting number to be 1, you would enter 00001.
6. Enter the amount by which each digit in the tag number can increase (Digit Increments).
For example, if the starting tag number is A001 and you enter 0112 in this field, then Inventory generates the following tag numbers: A001, A003. A005, A007, A009, A011, and so on, up to A999. If you enter 0111 in this field, Inventory generates tags A001, A002, A003, A004, A005, A006, A007, A008, A009, A010, A011, etc.
7. Enter the ending tag number.
Inventory calculates this value for you if you selected Default tags in the Tag Type field.
8. Enter the number of tags.
Inventory calculates this value for you if you selected Default tags in the Tag Type field.
9. Choose the Generate button to create the tag numbers and information. Note that this process does not physically print the tags.
See Also
Physical Inventory Tags Overview
Defining a Physical Inventory
Overview of Physical Inventory
Define and freeze a physical inventory. See: Defining a Physical Inventory.