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E-WMS scanner settings - Sales order fulfillment

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Introduction

This document describes the scanner settings for E-WMS Sales Order Fulfilment, in menu System, E-WMS, Scanners, Sales Order Fulfilment settings. The screenshots and functionality is based on product update 414.

 

Description

Once scanner settings are defined, these need to be assigned to each device in menu System, E-WMS, Scanners, Scanners.
You can use a 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, Sales Order Fulfilment 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).


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Section: Submenu

   

These settings are available from product update 408. You can disable one of the order menus on the scanner. If both are enabled, a submenu will first show on the scanner after selecting main menu 'Orders'. When only one of these submenus is enabled, this submenu will be immediately started when choosing main menu 'Orders'.

Order packing is required for the E-WMS Pick&Pack order process, but can be started as well outside of that process if you do not require a guided route to pick items.

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
to Sort descending 3
These settings are available from release 410 (for E-WMS I, ASP only) and configure the sort order of the orders to pick, in the order list on the scanner (order picking and order packing). Besides changing the sort order, also the information shown in the order list depends on this setting. You have the possibility to sort the orders up to 3 levels, and sort ascending or descending per level.

The settings 'Order listing sorting' (2, 3) offer following choices to sort the order list. Default, the selected sort fields are shown in the scanner order list next to the sales order number and order debtor name, unless otherwise stated.

  • None: available only for 'Order list sorting 2' and 'Order list sorting 3'. Allows no specific sorting besides the primary sorting.
  • Order number: the default value for 'Order list sorting' and the default sort order in release 409 and earlier. Shows order debtor name from the sales order.
  • Delivery debtor name: name of the sales order delivery debtor
  • Delivery debtor number: debtor code of the delivery debtor. Also shows the delivery debtor name and order debtor name from the sales order.

     

  • Order debtor name: name of the order debtor from the sales order
  • Order debtor number: debtor code of the order debtor in the sales order. Shows also the name of the order debtor, from the sales order.
  • Moment of sending orders: the list is sorted by sequence of sending the orders picking. This is defined by the sequence in which orders are selected (multi-select using shift-click or control-click) in the control center, and in general in chronological order of sending picking. Shows order number and order debtor name.
  • Selection code: selection code in the sales order. Shows order debtor name and selection code (or empty line if selection code was empty)
  • Route code: route code in the sales order. Shows order debtor name and route code (or empty line if route code was empty)
  • Shipping via: shipping method or delivery method code used in the sales order
  • Delivery date: delivery date from the order (header)
  • Description 1: description 1 in the order header, 'Conditions' button
  • Description 2: description 2 in the order header, 'Conditions' button
  • Description 3: description 3 in the order header, 'Conditions' button
  • Item code: the first item code to be picked for this order. When having sales orders with one item per order, this option would allow you to sort the order list already by item code.
  • Total quantity: the total quantity to be picked for this order. When sales orders contain items with equal types of sales units, this option allows you to sort the order list by workload or 'size' of the order. When selected, the total quantity is shown per order, preceded by the text 'Total qty.'.

When combining 2 or 3 sort options, E-WMS will try to show multiple key fields in one row in the order list, but that is not always possible. Using multiple sort options may result in showing extra lines per order 'button' in the scanner order list.

The 3 settings 'Sort descending' allow you to sort reversed. The default sorting is ascending (setting disabled, 0..9 and A...Z), you can enable the setting to sort descending (9...0 and Z...A). For example for 'total quantity' you can show either the smallest or the largest orders on top.

Sales orders marked as 'urgent' are always shown first. After primary sorting by 'urgency', these sorting settings are applied.

Browse order lines
ASP and CAB. When enabled, a list of order lines (advice 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 order line browser only shows once, after selecting the order. When the selected item is picked, the next first open line will automatically be presented. From product update 404, the order line browser is also shown when using the STOP button and choosing 'Skip advice line for now'. When this setting is disabled, the first advice line (and logically, the first location to visit) will be opened automatically after selecting an order to pick.

Show picked lines
ASP and CAB ActiveSync only. When enabled, a list of the picked lines shows after the order is fully 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 while order picking, 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 Sales Order Fulfilment also has to be enabled. When this setting is disabled, the 'Add' button is disabled on the scanner.

Collected: add to
Available from release 410 (ASP, E-WMS I). When the setting 'Allow additions' (see above setting) is enabled, you are able to add extra ordered or non-ordered items. When picking orders collected (setting 'Collect' enabled, in menu System, General, Settings, WMS Sales Order fulfilment, section Send to scanner) and adding an extra item in the picking closing screen ('All lines are scanned' message), this item would always be added to the last picked sales order. Using this setting, you can configure to which order the additional items should be added:

  • Last picked order: the default setting, add the extra items to the last picked order
  • Lowest order number: add the additional item to the lowest order number in the current collection order
  • Highest order number: add the additional item to the highest order number in the current collection order

RF: display debtor
CAB RF only: when enabled, a popup window will show after picking, showing the debtor number.

Show stock button
ASP and CAB RF. Determines whether the hand terminal user is allowed to view item stock on the scanner. In CAB RF, a button will show to view stock per location for the current item.  Before release 406 this setting was named 'RF: browse stock'.

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'.

Screen layout
ASP and WMSclient only. Please read this section for more information on 'screen layout'.

 


Section: Barcode

   


Scanning combination
Please read this document for more details on 'scanning combination'.

Dividing character
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. Disable this setting when you do not use EAN128 bar codes.
Please also read: how to activate EAN128 barcode scanning in WMS ASP and in 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: item

   

Fill item code
ASP and CAB. When enabled, the advised item code is prefilled in the item code scan field. The order picker can just press ENTER and does not have to scan the item. When disabled, the item code scan field is empty and has to be scanned or entered.

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: Order picking: location

   

Default value

ASP and CAB. You can configure a default location for order picking (also see order packing settings below)

Display which value?
ASP and CAB, refers to the default value for the order picking location. Determines which location will be prefilled in the 'location' scan field:

  • Default value: the location scan field will be prefilled with the default order picking location, and can still be scanned. This location can than be different from the advised location, which would lead to unclear situations.
  • Never: the location scan field will be prefilled with the default order picking location and will be skipped. This location can than be different from the advised location, which would lead to unclear situations.
  • Empty: the location is not prefilled with any value and has to be scanned (this would be the logical setting for most scenarios).
  • Advice: the location is prefilled with the advised location (either the calculated location or the item's main location, depending whether 'picking advice' was enabled or not), the order picker can press ENTER instead of scanning the location.
  • Advice + skip (ASP only): the location is prefilled with the advised location and input of the location field is skipped

Section: Serial/batch number

   

Display which value?

ASP and CAB. Determines whether the serial/batch scan field will be prefilled, with following choices:
  • Never: input of serial/batch is skipped (this configuration is not applied anymore since the item type should decide this)
  • Empty: the serial/batch scan field is not prefilled and has to be scanned (this would be the logical setting for most scenarios).
  • Advice: the serial/batch scan field is prefilled with the advised number and can still be scanned

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

   

Show item order total
This setting was introduced in 410 and is visible when your license contains SE1380 E-WMS I (or older license SE5700 Pick-IT Basic). When enabled, an extra quantity is shown in the order picking screen or order packing screen: the item total for the whole order, next to the item quantity to be picked for the current location:

   

In this sample, the quantities have following meaning:
  • 35 already picked
  • of total 63 to pick on current location 'PACK'
  • of total 80 to pick in total for this order
  • 20 now to pick of batch 120615

When the WMS setting 'Collect' (in WMS Sales order fulfilment settings, section 'Send to scanner') is enabled, and the same item is to be picked for several sales orders, the third total is the total for the order currently shown on the picking screen. This is the total for the 'real' sales order, not for all sales orders in the collected order.

When the WMS setting 'Collect advice per item' (in WMS Fulfilment advice settings, introduced in release 410) is enabled, and quantities are summarized over several orders before generating a picking advice, then you will see the total per item for all 'collected' orders in the picking screen, since on the scanner you will not see the real sales order number in this case.

 

Default quantity
ASP and CAB. You can configure a default quantity, in combination with the setting 'Display which value?'. The default value is 0. Leave this value to 0 if you want to avoid just pressing 'Enter' in the process too quickly (and fulfilling a default quantity). If you often scan items per single unit, it is better to use 'Pivot point' (see below).

Display which value?
ASP and CAB. Determines how the field 'quantity' will be prefilled:

  • Default value: prefills the quantity defined at 'Default quantity', when the quantity is not prefilled from a barcode scan like EAN128 or a SKU number. If you want to pick items always per single unit, it would be better to use 'Pivot Point' (see below).
  • Never: would skip input of the quantity field and apply the 'default quantity', but this specific setting is currently not implemented in WMS ASP or in the old 'CAB' client.
  • Empty: prefills the quantity field with zero (0), the order picker must enter the quantity. When scanning a SKU, or a EAN128 or HIBC bar code, the quantity will still be prefilled if the quantity is part of that bar code.
  • Advice: prefills the quantity with the advised quantity (ASP, from release 411). See this document for more details.

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.

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, like scanning the item code in the quantity field by mistake.

Pivot point quantity
ASP and CAB. For pivot point, please refer to this document.

Pivot point batch
ASP only. For pivot point, please refer to this document.


Section: Order packing

   

The settings in this section are only applied when using 'order packing' (random scanning of ordered items, typically in a Pick&Pack process), in scanner menu [Orders, (Order picking,) Order packing].

Pack flow
ASP only. This setting determines whether you are scanning items randomly, or per item in sequence. In effect: at what moment the fulfilled quantity will be validated.

  • Random scan manual differences: you are scanning items randomly. After entry of quantity there is no immediate quantity validation, only when you indicate you are done with the order, then quantities are validated. In case of differences, the message 'There are differences' will show, allowing you to edit and change the picked lines.
  • Random scan: you are scanning items randomly. After entry of quantity there is no immediate quantity validation, and also when the order is done, quantities are not validated. Only after reading back and validating through the WMS RF service, or in the control center, quantities are validated according to the WMS settings for Sales Order Fulfilment.
  • Scan per item: once you scan one specific item, it is assumed that you pick that item in total. When picking less than advised, you will see the message 'Scanned less. Do you want to close the line?'

Whether immediate quantity validation is applied also depends on other circumstances. When scanning batch items, or when using SSCC, quantities are not validated per line since it is likely that in those cases you will 'split' the lines.

Focus to
ASP only. After picking a serial/batch item randomly, it can be efficient to return to scanning a new 'item code', or instead to a new batch number for the same item.
  • item code: after picking a serial/batch item, the focus returns to item code. You are able to scan the same or another item.
  • serial/batch number: after picking a serial/batch item, the focus returns to a new serial/batch number for the same item.

When using EAN128 bar codes which include 'item', 'S/B' and 'quantity', returning to 'item' is more efficient. When working without EAN128 bar codes and in case often several different S/B numbers are to be picked, then focus to 'serial/batch number' may be more efficient.


Section: Order packing: Location

   


Default value

ASP only. Allows you to configure a default location for order packing. Since you can use any warehouse for Fulfilment, there is no validation of the entered location in this screen.
To apply a default packing location, the setting 'Display which value' will have to be configured to 'Default value' or to 'Never'.

Display which value?
ASP only. Determines how to prefill the 'location' field in the order packing process, with following options:
  • Default value:  prefills the 'default value' and you are still able to change and scan the location on the hand terminal. This location can however be different from the advised location, which will lead to unclear situations.
  • Never: prefills the 'default value' and also skips input of the location on the hand terminal. You can only fulfill from this specific location. This location can however be different from the advised location, which will lead to unclear situations.
  • Empty: the location field on the hand terminal is always empty and has to be scanned
  • Advice: prefills the advised location and you are still able to change and scan the location on the hand terminal (logical choice for order packing).
  • Advice + skip: prefills the advised location and also skips input of the location on the hand terminal  (most logical choice for order packing).

 

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