Enable Pack & Ship

Owned by Johannes Sebastian Nielsen
Last updated: May 02, 2024 by Bøje Mølbak Nielsen
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Description

Configuration of the Pack & Ship feature.

See also

User Guide - Pack & Ship

Overview

Minimum Requirements

  • Business Central v14.0
  • Mobile WMS Extension version MOB5.42
  • Android App and Mobile configuration v1.5.12

Printing "License Plate" and "License Plate Content" requires a Printing solution.


Mobile WMS Setup

Before the "Pack & Ship" process can be used, the feature must be enabled at the "Mobile WMS Setup" page.
When all setup below is completed, any mobile device should be restarted before attempting to use Pack & Ship.



Tote Picking

"Pack & Ship" requires that Tote Picking is enabled and set up as shown above.

This specific Tote setup is required because the License Plates are created based on the collected Tote ID's:

  • "Enable Tote Picking" = True
  • "Tote per" = "Whse. Document No.", "Source No." or "Destination No."


There are 3 different ways of collecting the Tote ID's during the Pick process:

Tote Per – setting

Effect

Supported in "Pack & Ship"

Destination No.

Tote ID's per Recipient Customer

True

Source No.

Tote ID's per Sales Order

True

Whse. Document No.

Tote ID's per Whse. Shipment doc.

True



"Pack & Ship" Section

  • License Plate Number Series (Optional)
    • The number series to be used for automatically assigning new unique License Plate numbers
    • If the number series is blank, the user will be asked to scan a new License Plate number, when either 'Add New License Plate', 'Combine all Contents to new', or Move all License Plates to new' functions are used.
    • Blank number series means the scan input has same "free" input type, simular to tote picking id.
  • Weight Unit
    • Specified the Unit of Measure used in help messages for steps on the mobile device.
  • Dimensions Unit
    • Specified the Unit of Measure used in help messages for steps on the mobile device.
  • Pick Collect Staging Hint
    • If enabled, the user will be asked for "Staging hint" when posting a Pick for Whse. Shipments.
  • Pick Collect Packing Station
    • If enabled, the user will be asked for "Packing Station" when posting a Pick for Whse. Shipments.


Mobile WMS Package Types

You must set up a "Mobile Package Type" to be used as information on the License plates. 

"Mobile Package Types" are not used directly on the mobile device. It depends on the setup in the "Shipping agent" and "Mobile WMS Package Types".

Synchronize Package Types

"Synchronize Package Types" action will get any Packages from a "Shipping Provider Connector", if used.


IMPORTANT:

  • Mobile users must log out/in after changing this setup


Mobile WMS Package Setup

If there are different requirements for package registration depending on the Shipping Agent, you can set up the required values.

You can specify what fields should be collected and/or specify default values to be used when Registering License Plates during packing.


The Package Types available on the mobile device are determined by selecting "Shipping Agent" when Registering Shipment Information.

Fields:

  • Package Type
  • Weight
  • Length
  • Height
  • Width
  • Loading Meter (LDM)

Note:

  • If no entries exist in "Mobile WMS Package Setup", the solution can be used without the need to register specific package information.
    The License Plates will still be handled and marked as "handled by shipping".
  • Mobile users must log out/in after changing this setup


Mobile WMS Packing Stations (optional)

If using Packing Stations is enabled in the Mobile WMS Setup and at least one Packing Station exists, the user can choose Packing Station from the mobile device during the picking and packing processes.

You can set up the different Packing Stations to be used as staging information on the Warehouse Shipment and License plates.

Only Packing Stations with <blank> or the same Location code as the current Warehouse Document can be selected on the mobile device.


You can also use the "Synchronize Packing Station" to get any data specified from a "Shipping Provider Connector".


Note:

  • If you insert a <blank> Code a unique value will be applied in the Code field

License Plate Labels Setup (Printer per Packing Station)

This feature requires Tasklet Cloud Print Service.

To use the License Plate label and License Plate Contents label, you must enable and assign a printer to those label-templates.

Number License Plate Labels using No. Series

License Plate ID´s can be assigned automatically to license plate labels, using a Number Series on the label-template.

To activate this, you must "Number Series" field on the "License Plate" label-template.




Set up printer for a specific combination of label-template and Packing Station

If you have multiple label printers and want to suggest a specific printer for a Packing Station, you can do this from the Packing Station list page:

Use the "Printer Label Template Setup"- action to specify the printer you want to use for label-template and Packing Stations.


In this example we have set up the printer named "3x2 Print (Pack 1)" to be suggested as default printer for label-template "License Plate 3x2" and Packing Station "PACK 1".



This setup will result in the following default printer suggestion, but you can manually choose another printer.

This setup will result in the following

If you need to share a printer between some Packing Stations (but not all), you will need to make a copy of the Printer name for the extra Packing Station.



Next

Continue with the Pack & Ship section in the User Guide.