Printing Pick or Work Tickets for Cross Dock Tasks

By using the Cross Dock functionality, you can fulfill outgoing orders with received material on a purchase order (P/O) or transfer without putting away the material first.

Note: To cross dock material, the shipping branch on the outgoing order must be the same as the receiving branch on the incoming order.

Using the Cross Dock Printing Confirmation Queue, view outgoing orders that can be fulfilled using the material that just came in to the warehouse from a P/O or transfer. Then select the outgoing orders to process, and print pick or work tickets for the material that can fulfill the sales orders.

Pick or work tickets for cross dock tasks print with the following information:

Receiving dock location from where to pick the material.
P/O or transfer number from which to pick the material.

Important: You cannot print pick or work tickets for orders committed to child branches. You must instead transfer the material to the child branch. In addition, you cannot print pick or work tickets for invoiced orders – orders that might have shipped and been invoiced from another branch while you were in the process of preparing to ship them from the receiving branch.

To print a pick or work ticket for a cross dock task:

From the Purch menu, select Purchase Order Entry to display the Purchase Order Entry screen.
Display the purchase order on which you have items to receive by entering the transaction number in the Ship From field.
Press Esc to view the header information and enter freight information, if needed.
Press Esc to display the Order Status screen.
Change the status from Open to Received for the item that has arrived.
Use the XDock hot key to display the Cross Dock Printing Confirmation Queue screen.
In the Prt column, type Y next to the orders you want to process.

Use the Set All hot key to select all the orders in the queue.

Use the Print Tickets hot key to print pick or work tickets for the orders selected.

Note: The system alerts you if you attempt to print pick or work tickets for orders not shipping from the receiving branch.

Press Esc to exit the screen.

How the System Determines Printer Location for Cross Dock Tasks

Before printing pick or work tickets for cross dock tasks, set the Use Current Location When Printing From Cross Dock control maintenance record to one of the following to determine where the tickets print:

Y – Pick or work tickets print at the user's currently assigned location.
N – Pick or work tickets print at the location determined by the printer selection hierarchy. This hierarchy selects a location in the following order:

What the System Checks	Where Identified
1. The printer location override defined for the ship via within a branch.	PickTicketPtrLoc field in Ship Via Branch Overrides/Auto Scheduling. For more information, see Assigning Ship Vias to Branches.
2. The printer location assigned to the shipping branch.	Ship Ticket Branch field in Printer Location Maintenance. For more information, see Defining Printer Locations.
3. The user's currently assigned location.	Slave Printer field in Slave Printer Assignment. For more information, see Assigning Slave Printers to Terminals.

More Options from the Cross Dock Printing Confirmation Queue

The Cross Dock Printing Confirmation Queue screen also offers these options.

Hot Key	Description
View Order	Displays the selected order in view-only mode.
Xfer	Displays the Cross Dock Suggested Transfer Queue screen. Use this screen to view outgoing orders at other branches that can be fulfilled by your branch's inventory.