Setting Up Shipping Manifests for RF

Before you can use shipping manifests with RF manifest picking, you must perform the following setup. If you do not define these settings, all manifests and individual orders are queued for RF picking and the system is unable to order the picks based on the shipping manifest delivery schedule.

Setting the System to Hold Picks from RF

Set up the system to hold picks from RF so that users do not pick orders or manifests until they are ready for shipment preparation. Perform the following two setup tasks:

Set up branches and their ship vias to hold manifests from RF manifest picking until they are manually released.

Set up the RF Enable Delayed Picking control maintenance record to hold individual orders from RF manifest picking until they are manually released.

Note: For warehouses not using Fleet Maintenance, held orders display individually in the Warehouse In Process Status Queue with the status Held. Once these orders are manually added to a shipping manifest, the individual order is replaced in the queue by the manifest. The system assigns the manifest a Held status until it is manually release from the Shipping Manifest Queue.

Important: If the system is holding a manifest from RF picking, but then you add an order with a ship via not set up to hold picks from RF, the system still places the order's picks on hold to avoid early release of picks to RF.

In addition, if you try to set an order or manifest on hold with picks already selected or performed, the system disallows you from putting the order or manifest on hold. If picks have not been selected but they display on the Pick Selection screen and you place the picks' order or manifest on hold, the system disallows users from selecting the picks.

To set up a branch and its ship vias to hold manifests from RF manifest picking:

From the Files > Branch menu, select Branch to display the Branch Maintenance screen.
In the Branch ID/New field, enter the branch ID in which you want to use manifest picking.
Use the Ship Via hot key to display the Ship Via Branch Overrides/Auto Scheduling screen.

Note: If needed, add the ship via to the branch.

Use the Addl hot key to display Branch Shipvia Additional Data screen.
In the Hold RF Picking until Released field, enter Y to hold all manifests from RF manifest picking until they are manually released.

Press Esc to apply the setting.
Press Esc to exit Branch Maintenance.

Setting the System to Pre-build Manifests Using Fleet Maintenance

If you use Fleet Maintenance to pre-build manifests, perform the following two setup tasks:

Build fleet routing schedules.
Set up automatic scheduling for shipping manifests.

Note: For the associated tasks, click on the links.

Setting Up Routing Tickets for Manually Building Manifests

If you use routing tickets to manually build manifests, perform the following two setup tasks:

Set up routing tickets to print for the necessary ship vias.
Disable Fleet Maintenance for the branch you are using in manifest picking, as needed.

Note: You do not have to print routing tickets to manually build a manifest. You can also find the orders to add to the manifest in the Warehouse In Process Status Queue, and then manually build the manifest using the correct order numbers.

To set routing tickets to print for ship vias used in manifest picking:

From the Files > Branch menu, select Branch to display the Branch Maintenance screen.
In the Branch ID/New field, enter the branch ID in which you want to use manifest picking.
Use the Ship Via hot key to display the Ship Via Branch Overrides/Auto Scheduling screen.

Note: If needed, add the ship via to the branch.

In the Ship Via field, select the ship via for which you want to print routing tickets.
In the PickTicketPtrLoc field, press F10 and select the printer location where you want the routing tickets to print.
In the Routing Ticket field for the ship via, enter Y to enable routing ticket printing.
Press Esc to apply the setting and exit the screen.
Press Esc to exit Branch Maintenance.

To disable Fleet Maintenance for manual manifest building:

From the Files > Branch menu, select Branch to display the Branch Maintenance screen.
In the Branch ID/New field, enter the branch ID in which you want to use manifest picking.
Use the Ship Via hot key to display the Ship Via Branch Overrides/Auto Scheduling screen.

Note: If needed, add the ship via to the branch.

Use the Addl hot key to display Branch Shipvia Additional Data screen.
In the Use in Fleet Routing field, type N.
Press Esc to save the change and exit the screen.
Press Esc to exit Branch Maintenance.