Description

Introduction

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Pack & Ship is accessed from the main menu, as shown in the screenshot.

Integration with Shipping Provider Apps 

Pack & Ship can be used stand-alone and still provide significant benefits to staging, repacking, and printing package content label reports.

However, the main goal is to allow our customers to easily connect Mobile WMS to their shipping solutions.

Enabling customers to Create and Book transports/consignments and Print the shipping labels directly from the mobile device.

See: Shipping Provider Setup

Terminology

• Tote Picking

  • Pick for multiple orders/customers and then separate the orders/customers by the Tote IDs during the pick process. A Tote is basically any entity that can be used to hold goods, i.e., boxes, railcars, pallets.
    See Tote- Picking & Shipping

• License Plate

  • This is a new concept in Pack & Ship and is built on top of the existing "Tote Picking" functionality in Mobile WMS.

  • When totes are picked, they become a License Plate with the information about the goods inside and can be processed during packing and shipping with a single barcode scan.

  • With license plates, a lot of different information can be associated with a license plate. In Pack & Ship we focus on package information.

Minimum Requirements

• Mobile WMS Extension MOB5.42

• Android App and Mobile configuration v1.5.12

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

Required Setup

Business Central must be set up with the following:

 Mobile WMS Setup

• "Enable Tote Picking"

• "Enable Pack & Ship"

 Location

• "Bin Mandatory"

• "Require Pick"

• "Require Shipment"

Warehouse Shipment

• Use of Warehouse Shipments is mandatory, meaning the “Whse. Doc. Type” on related Warehouse Pick Lines must be “Whse. Shipment”.

• Only orders for the same Customer and delivery address on the same Shipment

• Source Documents of type "Sales Order", "Transfer Orders" outbound, as well as "Purchase Return Orders" and "Service Orders" (from MOB5.49) can be used as sources for Warehouse Shipment for the packing and shipping processes

Note: Assemble-to-Order is supported from version MOB 5.54.

Project

Tote Picking is not supported when creating a Warehouse pick related to a project.

How to: Set up Pack & Ship

Please complete the Installation Guide for Pack & Ship.

Then continue from here...

Tote Picking: How Totes Become License Plates

All goods must be assigned a "Tote" (box/railcar/pallet/etc.) during the Pick process.

This "tote" can later be used when packing or reorganizing the goods. The existing Tote Picking feature must be used to register this extra information.

The background for the original Tote Pick function was to be able to create one shipment and one pick for multiple customers and then separate the orders/customers by the Tote ID's.

From Totes to License Plates

With Pack & Ship, we have now extended Tote Picking to automatically create License Plates from registered Totes when registering a Pick. The License Plates feature offers additional functionality not available with the Tote feature, including options to reorganize goods and print content labels.

Reusable Tote IDs vs. Unique License Plates IDs

You can either use and re-use existing boxes with fixed Tote IDs, or you can choose to print License Plate labels with unique License Plate numbers.

If you want to reuse a License Plate, you need to make sure to use the function 'Combine All Contents to new' in the Packing Process or manually Reset the License Plate in BC Client.