Purpose: Use this screen to indicate whether to assign LPNs (license plate numbers) to stock in order to facilitate the use of radio frequency devices in managing your inventory.
Yes/no field: Select this field if you assign LPNs to stock in order to facilitate the use of radio frequency (RF) devices to manage your inventory.
Radio frequency provides the ability to register inventory transactions on the system from any area in the warehouse. Instead of typing information on a terminal, you have the option of scanning information through a portable RF gun. The menu format is similar to standard CWSerenade menus, but adapted for use on the gun.
LPN Tracking
The system assigns an LPN to each carton at Purchase Order Receipts. The LPN provides a means to track the movement and location of stock at the carton level, rather than the individual unit. The LPN remains with the carton until you put it away in the item's primary location.
Printing LPN Labels
You can print an RF LPN Label when you receive a purchase order to affix to the carton(s) that are received into the staging warehouse. The LPN label includes a barcode that you can scan when moving the carton from one location to another. You can also generate LPN labels using the Radio Frequency Transactions (RFMN) menu option. See RF LPN Label for more information on the setup required to print an LPN label and to review a sample label.
Suggest Location Placement
The steps the system takes to suggest placement of purchase order receipts varies depending on whether you use LPN tracking in your warehouse. If the LPN tracking system control value is selected, use these additional system control values to set up Staging Warehouse/Location Placement:
• Default Staging Warehouse (E15)
• Type of RF Location to Search First (F12)
• Type of RF Location to Search Second (F13)
• Type of RF Location to Search Third (F14)
• Round Up Quantity in RF Suggest Warehouse Placement for B/O (F16)
Leave this field unselected if you do not use radio frequency or LPNs in your warehouse. The system will not assign LPNs and will use the Standard Warehouse/Location Placement routine.
Replenish Primary Locations
The Replenish Primary Locations function, initiated through Working with Replenishment Control (MSRP), is used to determine whether inventory should be moved from secondary or bulk locations to the primary picking locations. If you are using radio frequency and you have the LPN Tracking (E16) system control value selected, the system will not generate a Replenishment Control request. When you create a replenishment control request, the system will analyze the inventory level in both the primary and secondary/bulk locations and generate a Replenishment Detail by 'From' Location Report. The request you create will not generate and will clear from the screen.
Let Down Replenishment
Let down replenishment is automatic restocking of primary locations initiated by the system when you generate pick slips. The system can recommend, or recommend and immediately process, a replenishment transfer, to ensure that inventory quantities in primary locations will be adequate for the pick slips you have generated. The Let Down Replenishment (C36) system control value determines whether the system initiates replenishment when you generate pick slips, and whether the system completes the replenishment transfer, or recommends but does not complete the transfer.
If the Let Down Replenishment (C36) system control value is set to REPORT, the system generates the Replenishment Detail by 'From' Location Report during pick slip generation and creates the Replenish Control record; however:
• If the LPN Tracking (E16) system control value is unselected, you must use the Working with Replenishment Control (MSRP) menu option to process the item location transfers.
• If the LPN Tracking (E16) system control value is selected, the system resets the Pending quantity for the item locations back to what it was before Let Down Replenishment was run and deletes the Replenishment Control request in Working with Replenishment Control (MSRP). You must perform RF transactions to move the recommended replenishment quantity to the primary location.
For more information: See:
• Radio Frequency Overview for an overview of the RF process.
• Radio Frequency Setup for more information on the setup required for RF.
• Staging Warehouse/Location Placement for more information on how the system determines where merchandise should be placed in the staging warehouse during PO Receipts.
• Radio Frequency Transactions (RFMN) for more information on how to move stock by LPN using an RF device.
• Radio Frequency Inquiry and Maintenance (RFMN) for more information on how to print LPN labels, create new LPNs, and adjust the quantity for an existing LPN.
• Replenish Primary Locations Overview for more information on the Replenish Primary Locations function, initiated through Working with Replenishment Control (MSRP).
• Let Down Replenishment for more information on the processing that occurs during let down replenishment.
