One of your ideas has been delivered from your suggestion.Improvements to RF Sort and Receive

To give you more flexibility and to ensure inventory accuracy when adding inventory information, we have enhanced the RF Sort and Receive transaction to prompt for the following:

  • Serial Numbers
  • Purchase Order Number
  • Inventory Attributes

PROMPT FOR SERIALS

The system now prompts for serial numbers when the item tracks the serial numbers end-to-end (serial number tracking level set to 2) while receiving Inbound LPNs in the RF Sort and Receive transaction.

When you end an LPN with serial numbers in RF Sort and Receive, the system now records Inventory History transaction IHT-1 (1 - LPN Received) with the received LPN’s serial number.

NOTE:

  • The system doesn’t prompt for serial numbers if the scanned item is tracking inventory in decimals with the decimal handling flag on the item set to yes.

  • If the number of serial numbers linked to each inventory is not matching with the respective serial number count, then the system doesn’t allow you to end LPN and displays an error message “Mismatch in Serial numbers and quantity”.

PROMPT FOR PO NUMBER

To give you more flexibility to select a purchase order that is part of a multiple purchase order shipment, in the RF Sort and Receive transaction, the system now prompts for purchase order/sequence number.

You can give more details on the purchase order number if the scanned SKU has multiple shipment details pointing to different or same purchase order with different sequences.

To enable the prompt for purchase orders, a new screen parameter “prompt-po-seq-line” is introduced to the RF Sort and Receive screen.

The following table describes the behavior of the parameter.

Parameter Value

Behavior

None

WMS retains the previous behavior (The system doesn’t prompt for the PO Number).

PO Sequence

The system prompts for the PO Number and PO Sequence.

PO line schedule

The system prompts for the PO Number and Line Schedule.

Based on the selected parameter values, the system displays the PO Selection List, PO Sequence List, and PO Line Schedule List prompts.

If you are receiving a shipment that has multiple details with the same or different PO numbers, the system displays the PO Selection list prompt (if the parameter “prompt-po-seq-line” is configured). After you select the PO number, the system prompts for the PO Sequence List or PO Line Schedule List based on the “prompt-po-seq-line” configuration.

PROMPT FOR INVENTORY ATTRIBUTES

To provide more options with capturing/validating the shipment’s inventory attributes while performing RF Sort and Receive, the system now prompts for inventory attributes for an inventory tracking item.

NOTE:

  • To prompt for inventory attributes, the scanned item should be configured with one of the inventory attribute tracking levels:

    • 1 - Required, don't validate

    • 2 - Required, validate and allow user override

    • 3 - Prompt during Receiving only

  • The system honors the column formatting rule defined for the prompted inventory attribute.

DISTRIBUTE THE RECEIVED QUANTITY ACROSS MULTIPLE SHIPMENT DETAILS

When multiple details for the same SKU are present on the shipment, WMS now restricts the receiving of the whole inventory for one of the details. Sort and Receive is enhanced so that WMS now distributes the quantity for all details instead of filling the inventory for randomly picked detail.

NOTE:

  • When multiple shipment details are available for the SKU with different quantities, the system initially picks the detail with the maximum quantity.

  • When multiple shipment details have same quantity, then the system picks the shipment detail in the ascending order of the created time stamp.

  • If you scan a non-attribute tracking SKU (with attribute values and the details have same quantity) with excess quantity, the system distributes the excess quantity to one of the details.

  • When the entered quantity needs to be distributed across different shipment details (the sortation criteria is based on Shipment PO Number) while performing Sort and Receive, the system displays a new error message "Revisit criteria, entered quantity to be spread across details for the SKU".

SORTATION CRITERIA

Additionally, the following field values are added to the drop-down lists of “Criteria 1” and “Criteria 2” in the Sort and Receive Configuration screen:

  • Item Facility Velocity Code
  • Item Facility Custom Attribute 1
  • Item Facility Custom Attribute 2
  • Item Facility Custom Attribute 3
  • Inbound Shipment Trailer Number
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Long Text 1
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Long Text 2
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Long Text 3
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 1
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 2
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 3
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 4
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 5
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 6
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 7
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 8
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 9
  • Inbound Shipment Custom Short Text 10
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Long Text 1
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Long Text 2
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Long Text 3
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 1
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 2
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 3
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 4
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 5
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 6
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 7
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 8
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 9
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Custom Short Text 10
  • Inbound Shipment Detail Marked for QC

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