One of your ideas has been delivered from your suggestion.Ability to Capture Inventory Attributes Only During Receiving

In warehouse operations, when you receive the same items from different vendors, each vendor will have different manufacturing part numbers (MPN), custom declaration numbers, and so on for the same item. This extra information is shared in the Purchase Orders.

To verify the shipment procurement details at receiving, we’ve added support to capture and confirm inventory attributes during receiving, thereby helping to ensure inventory accuracy. On using this feature, capturing of inventory attributes is limited to receiving only.

To support capturing of the inventory attributes during receiving, the following changes have been added.

UI CHANGES

On the Item UI, a new drop-down list value “Prompt during receiving only” (Attribute value is 3) is added to the drop-down list from “Track Inventory Attr A” to “Track Inventory Attr G” fields.

On selecting the value, the system allows you to confirm and capture the inventory attributes only during receiving.

NOTE:

  • These values are supported for existing items also.

  • Once you configure the item to receive the inventory attribute during receiving only, post receiving, the system won’t track the inventory attributes again.

INTERFACE CHANGES

Item UI changes are replicated to the Item Interface where Item Interface now supports the new value 3 (Prompt during receiving only) for “Track Inventory Attr A” to “Track Inventory Attr G” fields.

On interfacing the item with value “3” to track inventory attributes, the item will be populated with the “Prompt during receiving only” value in the UI.

INIT_STAGE_INTERFACE API CHANGES

Item entity for Init_Stage_Interface API now supports a new value “3” (Prompt during receiving only). On passing the value “3” for “Track Inventory Attr A” to “Track Inventory Attr G” fields, the system populates “Prompt during receiving only” value in the Item UI.

If an item is interfaced or configured with the attribute value as 3 (Prompt during receiving only), the Item entity for Init_Stage_Interface API supports receiving the configured attributes.

NOTE: You can confirm inventory attributes only during receiving, with this change in place.

RECEIVING API CHANGES

When the tracking attribute values (Attribute A-G) are set with “Prompt during receiving”, you must pass the inventory attribute value during Receiving API.

POINTS FOR CONSIDERATION:

  • If you pass a null value for an item configured to prompt during receiving, then the system returns an error message "Item is inventory attribute tracked, some of the attributes are missing".
  • If you pass an inventory attribute value, then the system honors the column formatting rule defined for that inventory attribute.
  • If you pass the inventory attributes that matches with the shipment detail, the system receives the attributes against the same shipment detail.
  • If you pass the inventory attributes that are different from the shipment detail, the system writes a new record in the shipment.

RECEIVE BY LOAD AND RECEIVE BY SHIPMENT

After configuring the item to receive inventory attributes during receiving only, you can also capture and confirm the inventory attributes in the “Receive by Load” and “Receive by Shipment”.

POINTS FOR CONSIDERATION:

  • If you configure an item to “Prompt during receiving only”, while receiving, the system confirms the inventory attribute without pre-populating the attribute value, irrespective of the attribute passed in the shipment.
  • If the screen parameter “mult-attr-per-sku-in-lpn” is configured to yes, the system allows you can confirm each attribute to receive multiple attributes in the same LPN.
  • When screen parameter “mult-attr-per-sku-in-lpn” is configured to no, the system allows you to receive single attributes in an LPN.

The following table depicts the behavior of the system when you configure the attribute-A to “prompt during receiving only” in the Item UI.

Shipment Number

Item

Attribute-A Populated on the shipment

Shipment Type

Behavior

Shipment-1

SKU-A

Yes

Blank

The system prompts to scan attribute-A without pre-populating the shipment detail value.

Shipment-2

SKU-A

No

Blank

The system prompts to scan attribute-A.

Shipment-3

SKU-A

Yes

Prompt, if not known

The system doesn’t prompt to scan attribute-A.

Shipment-4

SKU-A

No

Prompt, if not known

The system prompts to scan attribute-A.

Shipment-5

SKU-A

Yes

Always prompt

The system prompts to scan attribute-A without pre-populating the shipment detail value.

Shipment-6

SKU-A

No

Always prompt

The system prompts to scan attribute-A.

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