Print Packing Slips During Waving

You can auto-print documents like Outbound LPN Packing Slips and Task Reports as part of the wave process. After the wave is run, auto-printing of bulk OBLPN packing slips allows pickers to increase picking efficiency.

Document Printer

In the Wave Template UI, the ‘Document Printer’ drop-down lists all the corresponding document printers. The ‘Document Printer’ drop-down is visible when you add a new Wave Template or edit an existing template in the add, copy and edit pane of the Wave Template UI.

Document Types to Print Action Button

  • You can configure documents which need to be auto-printed during a wave in Column Ordering Rule Configuration. The Column Ordering Rule allows you to configure the type of documents to be printed in a specific sequence as part of the wave process.

  • ‘Document types to Print’ is a new action button introduced in the Column Ordering UI which is enabled only for the Column Ordering type "Document/Label and Allocation Ordering".

  • Document types available to be printed are ‘OBLPN Packing Slip’ and ‘Task Report’. Similar to label printing, the sequence of the Documents to be printed is configurable.

Note: The Column Ordering Type ‘Label and Allocation Ordering’ is renamed to ‘Document/Label and Allocation Ordering’. If no rule is selected or if the rule selected does not define the document types to print, then as per the existing behaviour, the Order Packing Slip will be printed.

Print Label Document Button

The 'Print Label/Document’ in the Wave Inquiry UI button now supports the manual printing of packing slips/task reports and labels through a single pop-up window after the completion of the wave.

The following table describes the system behaviour based on the Column Ordering Rule selected:

Column Ordering Rule Drop-down Document Printer Drop-down Behaviour
Selected Column Ordering Rule is OBLPN Packing Slip Selected
  • Print OBLPN Packing Slips for all the OBLPN parts of the wave.
  • Uses Allocation Ordering Columns to order the allocations.
  • The message that appears after Confirm Print Wave is "Printing OBLPN Packing Slip to Printer <Printer Name>"
Selected Column Ordering Rules are OBLPN Packing Slip and Label Types Selected
  • Prints both OBLPN Packing Slips for all the OBLPNs as part of the wave and Corresponding Printing of Label Types as per the Column Ordering Rule.
  • The messages that appear after Confirm Print Wave Message are "Printing OBLPN Packing Slip to Printer <Printer Name>" and "Printing Labels to Printer <Printer Name>"
  1. In the Column Ordering UI, set the Document types to Print (i.e., OBLPN Packing Slip, Task reports) as per the rule defined.
  2. You can then configure the Column Ordering rule in the Wave Template UI and select the respective label printer/document printer from the drop-down list in the edit pane .

Note: You MUST select either a Label Printer or a Document Printer for labels or documents to be printed. When selecting the document printer, be sure to define the document types (OBLPN Packing Slip and/or Task report) in the Column Ordering Rule, to be printed. Otherwise, the Order Packing Slip will be printed as per the existing behaviour. The same is true for Label printing, if on selecting a label printer no label types are configured, then the default Shipping label will be printed. All the above-mentioned reports are supported in Web reports gen2 format also.