This document describes the scanner settings for E-WMS Production Issues, in menu System, E-WMS, Scanners, Production issues settings. The screenshots and functionality is based on product update 414.
Once scanner settings are defined, these need to be assigned to each device in menu System, E-WMS, Scanners, Scanners. You can use one general settings profile for all devices, or you can set up specific profiles per individual device. Please also read document General notes on scanner settings.
After selecting menu System, E-WMS, Scanners, Production issues settings you can create a new profile by pressing New, or edit an existing profile by using Open. You can only delete profiles which are not linked to devices.
Name Unique code referring to this settings profile (12 characters).
Description Description of this settings profile (60 characters). You can jump directly to a specific section of settings:
Section: Submenu
These settings are available from product update 408. You can disable one of the issues menus on the scanner. If both are enabled, a submenu will first show on the scanner after selecting main menu 'Production, Issues'. When only one of these submenus is enabled, this submenu will be immediately started when choosing main menu 'Production, Issues'.
When both submenus are disabled, you will see error message 'Please select at least one of the options in section 'submenu''.
Section: General Order list sorting This setting is available from release 410 (WMS ASP only) and configures the sort order of the production orders to be picked, in the order list in scanner menu Production, Issues, Issues with list.
Browse order lines ASP and CAB. When enabled, a list of the advised material lines to pick will be shown first, after selecting an order. You have to select a specific line from that list to start picking. This way you can start with another item than otherwise default would be started with. The line browser only shows once, after selecting the order. When the selected item is picked, the first open line will automatically be presented. From product update 404 (WMSclient only), the order line browser is also shown when using the STOP button and choosing 'Skip advice line for now'.
Show picked lines ASP and CAB (ActiveSync). When enabled, a list of the picked lines shows after the order is picked. This list shows totals per picked advice line (per location per item).
Allow additions ASP and CAB. When enabled, the 'Add' button will be enabled in guided production issues, and the order picker has the possibility to add items which were not ordered. To read back and still allow these additional lines, the setting 'Allow additions' in the general settings WMS Production Issuing also has to be enabled. When this setting is disabled, the 'Add' button is disabled on the scanner. Advice mandatory ASP and CAB. When enabled, the advised location, serial/batch or SKU number are mandatory and cannot be changed. When disabled, the order picker is allowed to pick from another location, or pick another serial/batch number or SKU number, after a warning message. Also see document 'Advice line switch'. Show stock button ASP only. Determines whether the hand terminal user is allowed to view item stock on the hand terminal. Before release 406, this setting was named 'RF: browse stock'. Focus to Applies to ASP 'free' issue scanning only. Determines to what field you will return after an issue line has been scanned. You have following choices:
When scanning serial/batch items, the focus always first returns to input of the 'S/B number' after completing a scan. When pressing the STOP button on input of the S/B number, then this setting is applied.
Screen layout ASP and WMSclient only, available from 404. Please read this section for more information on 'screen layout'. Default SKU scan mode This setting is available per release 409 and applies to SKU Management and free scanning process only. Determines the default value of the 'SKU scan toggle', which defines whether a SKU is by default issued as a whole, or only part of a SKU is issued (entry of quantity).
This document provides more information on the SKU scan unit toggle.
Section: Bar code
Scanning combination ASP and CAB. Please read this document for more details on 'scanning combination' and 'dividing character'.
Dividing character ASP and CAB. Please read this document for more details on 'scanning combination' and 'dividing character'.
Use EAN128 ASP and CAB. When enabled, EAN128 decoding will be started for any scanned value. Please disable this setting when you do not use EAN128 bar codes. You can find more information in: how to activate EAN128 barcode scanning in WMS ASP and in document WMS CAB.
Focus to next field ASP only. Please read this document for more information on this setting. This setting is available in this screen from release 409, in earlier releases this was a general scanner setting. Show barcode summary Available from product update 404 (ASP and for WMS client only). When enabled, a summary screen will show (in which you have to press Enter or OK) after a scan, when otherwise you would have moved to the next transaction screen immediately. This way you still have a confirmation of what you scanned, before the next scan screen is shown. Typically, this will be the case when you have disabled the setting 'Focus to next field' and scanning a SKU number, or an EAN128 or HIBC bar code. Please also see this document for more information on this setting.
Section: warehouse
Default value ASP and CAB. You can configure a default warehouse for free production issues, and use it in combination with the setting 'Display which value'. Display which value? ASP and CAB. This setting determines if and how the 'warehouse' field on the scanner will be prefilled in free production issues. The setting offers following choices:
Section: Location
Default value You can define a default location for production issues. Since you could use any warehouse on the scanner, there is no validation of the entered location in this screen. To apply a default issue location, the setting 'Location/Display which value' will have to be configured to 'Default value' or to 'Never'.
Display which value? Determines how to prefill the 'location' field in the material issuing process (guided or free), with following options:
When working with guided material issues, use either option 'Advice' (then order picker can press Enter on prefilled location instead of scanning the location), or 'Empty' (then order picker has to scan or enter the location).
Section: item
When the setting 'Serial/batch number'/'Display which value' is configured to 'Advice', then 'Fill item code' has to be enabled. This is because when the S/B number is prefilled, the S/B number is also validated - and 'item code' is part of the unique key of a S/B number and has to be prefilled for that. If you have S/B number configured to be prefilled with 'Advice' but 'Fill item code' disabled, an error message will show while trying to save these settings (from release 414): "The combination of prefilling serial/batch number with advice and not prefilling item code is not supported".
Section: Serial/batch number
Display which value? Determines whether the serial/batch number scan field will be prefilled in guided material issues, with following choices:
When this setting is configured to 'Advice', then the setting 'Fill item code' has to be enabled. This is because when the S/B number is prefilled, the S/B number is also validated - and 'item code' is part of the unique key of a S/B number and has to be prefilled for that. If you have S/B number configured to be prefilled with 'Advice' but 'Fill item code' disabled, an error message will show while trying to save these settings (from release 414): "The combination of prefilling serial/batch number with advice and not prefilling item code is not supported".
Section: Quantity
Default quantity ASP and CAB. You can define a default quantity to be prefilled on the hand terminal in material issues. To be combined with setting 'Display which value'. Prefills the quantity field on the hand terminal with this value, when the quantity is not prefilled from a scan like an EAN128 bar code. The default value is 0. Minimum quantity ASP and CAB. This setting determines the minimum quantity allowed to enter on the hand terminal. This setting is intended to avoid errors on the hand terminal, like scanning the item code or an EAN128 bar code in the quantity field.
Maximum quantity ASP and CAB. This setting determines the maximum quantity allowed to enter on the hand terminal. This setting is intended to avoid errors on the hand terminal.
Display which value ASP and CAB. Determines how the 'quantity' field will be prefilled:
Pivot point quantity ASP can CAB, guided material issues. This setting is applied for standard- and batch items. Allows you to scan just the item code (and S/B) and skip entry of quantity. For more details on pivot point, please refer to this document.
Section: Active sync
These settings only apply when using the E-WMS CAB client without RF, so when you have to connect to a PC (cradle) to communicate with an E-WMS Control Center. In those cases it may not always be possible or desired to have item master data available on the hand terminal.
Validate item code This setting determines if you want to validate a scanned item code (or scan code) during the scan, or only after reading back. When disabled, any item code (not: scan codes) can be scanned during the scan (existing or not), this also means you do not have to export item master data to the hand terminals. After reading back, the item code is still validated -but scan codes are not converted to item codes. When enabled, the scanned item code or scan code is validated on the hand terminal, using the master data previously exported to the hand terminal (menu WMS, Send, Send item data).
Browse items This setting determines if the warehouse employee is able to browse in item master data, thus able to select an item from the list, instead of scanning an item code.