Employee Location Track Data
An employee’s location in the warehouse can be tracked through various methods such as location scans or devices such as beacons, WiFi, Bluetooth, RFID or other IPS (Indoor Positioning System) devices. There are multiple ways in which this data can be captured in WFM:
- Locations Scans Using WMS Handheld
- Employee Location Track Input Interface
- Employee Location Track REST APIs
Note that this data is captured in WFM only when the facility parameter WRITE_WMS_ACTIVITY_RECORDS is “yes”.
Location Scans Using WMS Handled
When a user scans a location while performing an activity using a WMS handheld screen such as Locate LPN, the location scanned along with the time at which the location was scanned,and other relevant information is written to Employee Location Track view.
Some of the key fields that are captured during location scan using WMS handheld is listed below:
- User: Employee that scanned the location
- Location Barcode: Barcode of the location scanned by the employee
- Tracked Timestamp: Date and time at which the location was scanned
- Previous Location Barcode: Barcode of the previous location that was scanned by the user (if any)
- Module Name: Module Name of the WMS handheld screen
- Screen Name: Name of the WMS Screen that the employee was using when location was tracked
- Equipment Type:An identifier representing the equipment (if any), that the employee was operatingwhen the location was scanned
- Task Nbr: Task, if the activity was being performed in tasking mode
- Task Type Exec Seq Nbr: Execution seq nbr of the task, if the activity was being performed in tasking mode
- IHT Group Nbr: Group Nbr of the Inventory History transaction if WMS has this information at the time the record is written
- IHT Sequence Nbr: Sequence Nbr of IHT Group, if WMS has this information at the time the record is written
Employee Location Track Input Interface
Warehouses that use IPS devices such as beacons, WiFi, Bluetooth, RFID or others to track warehouse employees, can interface employee location track data to WFM using this interface. Data can be uploaded using an xls or pipe delimited flat file as described in the section - Input Interfaces.
Employee Location Track REST APIs
Warehouses that use IPS devices such as beacons, WiFi, Bluetooth, RFID or others to track warehouse employees, can also post employee location track data directly to WFM using REST APIs. Two different APIs are offered by WFM as described in the section - REST APIs.
Employee location track data is extracted at regular intervals by the Process Employee location Track scheduled job. This job consolidates data by employee and screen and moves it to Employee Travel Time. Data is further consolidated by day and moved to Daily Travel Time.