Enable Pack & Ship

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 on the "Mobile WMS Setup" page.
When all setup below is completed, any mobile device should be restarted before attempting to use Pack & Ship.

"Enabling Pack & Ship" must be set to true.

Tote Picking

"Enabling 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:

"Numbering" 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, similar to tote picking id.
  • The generated numbers may not overlap with item numbers or bin codes.

"Pack & Ship" Section

• Weight Unit
  • Specified the Unit of Measure used in help messages for steps on the mobile device.
    This is a value from the Shipping Provider and may not match up with existing Unit of Measure Codes in BC.
    
    
• Dimensions Unit
  • Specifies the Unit of Measure used in help messages for steps on the mobile device.
    This is a value from the Shipping Provider and may not match up with existing Unit of Measure Codes in BC.
    
    
• Collect Staging Hint on Pick
  • If enabled, the user will be asked for "Staging hint" when posting a Pick for Whse. Shipments.
     
• Collect Packing Station on Pick
  
  • 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 and Shipping Agent Service, 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" and "Shipping Agent Service" when Registering Shipment Information.

Fields:

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

Note:

• The calculated available Package Types on the mobile device will be the records for the specific Shipping Agent and a specific or blank Shipping Agent Service.
  • Example from the setup above
    • Shipping Agent is 'DHL' + Shipping Agent Service is ' ' = 'BAG'
    • Shipping Agent is 'DHL' + Shipping Agent Service is 'STANDARD' = 'BAG' + 'BOX'
    • Shipping Agent is 'DHL' + Shipping Agent Service is 'OVERNIGHT' = 'BAG' + 'PALLET'
    • Shipping Agent is 'FEDEX' + Shipping Agent Service is ' ' = 'BAG' + 'BOX' + 'PALLET'
      
      
• 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 Printing to be set up.

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".

BC Delivery Note Setup (Print Shipment on Post)

This feature requires Report Print.

It is possible to enable the automatic print of a Delivery Note in the Pack & Ship process to be placed into the package before shipping. 

See : Print Shipment on Post

Shipping Label Setup 

This feature requires shipping provider integration.

It is possible to print the shipping label directly from the device in the pack and ship process, but this requires setting up the provider connector printing setup, which differs from provider to provider.

See : Shipping Provider Connectors 

Next

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