Carton packing and carton loading assist in order and delivery accuracy. These utilities help verify order and packed quantities, as well as track packed cartons through the entire delivery process. This verification and tracking ensures that the warehouse ships the correct product and quantity to customers and that the orders reach your customers in full.
Note: If you want to track cartons through the packing process only, you can use Order Packing without Carton Loading.
Carton packing verifies picked quantities when packing orders. Instead of using a paper-based environment to check off packed quantities, record packed quantities for each order's cartons in the system. If order quantity discrepancies occur, the system forces you to resolve the discrepancies before shipping the order. After packing orders, print out and attach carton labels to indicate carton contents.
Carton loading is an RF (radio frequency) function that verifies the all cartons packed for an order are loaded onto the correct delivery vehicle as assigned to the order's manifest. Also load each carton in reverse-delivery sequence, so that orders delivered last are loaded first and orders delivered first are loaded last.
Inquire about orders through both Order Packing and Carton Loading by viewing current order and carton statuses, carton contents, and carton locations. If needed, you edit the information.
You can manage order packing from different system locations, such as Sales Order Entry, queues, and Carton Packing Maintenance.
Before using Order Packing or Carton Loading, perform the following setup tasks: