Defining Bar Code Formats for Warehouse Locations

Use Product Location Layout Maintenance to define bar code formats for warehouse product locations. This is necessary to track product quantity by location, to put away product, and to pick product.

Note: You can also use this screen to define additional locations in your warehouse, such as staging locations.

Using the Location Layout screen, define the following:

Headings for each segment of your warehouse.
Number of characters you want to represent that segment.
Format of the characters — either alpha or numeric.

You can also separate each heading with a delimiter. The system uses a dash (-). Once you define this bar coding convention, keep it consistent for all warehouse locations.

For example, if you defined your bar code for a location as follows:

The bar code could be 01-01-01-C (Aisle 1, Section 1, Shelf 1, Bin C) because each aisle, section, and shelf bar code is composed of two numeric characters –represented by # – and each bin bar code is composed of one alpha character – represented by A.

Note: The system supports alpha and numeric combinations of up to 12 characters including dashes. You cannot use a period (.) in the name. We recommend that you do not combine alpha and numeric characters in the same section of the heading, such as A1-B2-C3.

To define a bar code format for warehouse locations:

From the Whse Mgt > Warehouse Maintenance menu, select Product Location Layout Maintenance to display the Location Layout screen.
In the Branch field, enter the branch for which to define bar code label layouts.
In the Delimiter (Y/N) field, enter Y or N to indicate if you want the location headings displayed on your terminal to be separated by the delimiter, such as a dash.

In the Delimiter in Bar Code (Y/N) field, the system defaults to the entry in the Delimiter (Y/N) field.

Edit the Delimiter in Bar Code (Y/N) field to indicate if you want the delimiter printed on the location bar code labels.

In the Heading field, define names to segment locations. For example:

Aisle – Segments the warehouse.
Section – Segments aisles.
Shelf – Segments the aisle sections.
Bin – Segments the shelves.

In the Chars field, enter the number of characters required for each segment entry.

For example, if you want three numbers and one letter to define aisles, enter 4 for the number of characters.

Note: Do not include dashes in this number.

In the Format field, define whether the characters are alpha, numeric, or both.

For example, using four characters, enter ###A to define three numeric and one alpha character as the format.

Press Esc to save the format and exit the screen.