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Warehouse Manager's Station
General Information
This screen lets you create order batches for processing by any
of the packers in your company, monitor the progress of packers,
and ship batches as each batch is completed.
If you have the Advanced Warehouse
Module installed with your M.O.M. system, you have available
for use the Warehouse Manager Station to manage and direct order
processing at multiple order processing stations at multiple
warehouses or just one single warehouse. Typically, each packer
under the management of the warehouse manager is assigning orders
to pickers who in turn use the Packer's
Workstation.
How to Use the Screen
Creating or Editing Batches
The screen uses the standard Microsoft "tree" type display with
folders. Folders with content can be opened and/or closed by
clicking on the + or - symbol to the left of the folder.
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Use the screen to view a list of all of the Unassigned and Assigned orders and/or order segments
for processing.
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Unassigned - those orders and/or order segments that have not
yet been given to any packer. The detail under the main folder
shows the count for each stage of order processing.
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Assigned in Batch - those orders and/or order segments that have
been assigned to packers manually using the Batch Assignment
screen. The detail under the main folder shows the number of orders
assigned to each packer as a subfolder, with the associated counts
for each stage of order processing.
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Assigned Automatically - those orders and/or order segments that
have been assigned to packers by M.O.M. when the Automatically Assign New Segments to
Packers option is selected. The detail under the main folder
shows the number of orders assigned to each packer as a subfolder,
with the associated counts for each stage of order processing.
Note: The Automatic
Assignment option is available in each warehouse, but can only be
used if the packer(s) assigned to the specific warehouse currently
use the Packer's Workstation.
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The Warehouse Resources
will display the total number of Pickers and Packers logged into
M.O.M. and the number of those Pickers and Packers that are
currently in the Packer's Workstation.
Selecting
the VIEW RESOURCES button will display the User Name, the user's
Current Task, Status and the Duration of Time in Packer's
Workstation.
While in this screen, selecting the
CHANGE TASK button will change the user's task between Picker and
Packer if the user has been designated a "Picker/Packer" in the
User Security
Profiles.
Note: If you are using the Automatically Assign New Segments to
Packers option initialize the segment; the picking will be
assigned, but will not reassign packers.
Packers can access a segment to be
packed, therefore a specific packer is not needed.
Any
available packer can pack the segment.
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The screen automatically refreshes every 60 seconds and new
orders and/or order segments are loaded as Unassigned. To refresh
the screen between automatic refreshes, select the REFRESH
button.
Note: Order priority will group
segments by pending order processing stages.
This
will give you the option to efficiency expedite high priority
orders and assign them to your active picking and packing
resources.
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Optionally, to view the information on the screen graphically,
select the GRAPH button to display the Graphing Screen for
Reports.
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Optionally, if you have multiple warehouses set up, use the
Process Segments For
Warehouse pull-down menu to select to view the list for a
specific warehouse or all warehouses.
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To manually create a new batch for any unassigned segments,
select Unassigned Segments in the list with your mouse and press
the NEW BATCH button. To view or edit a batch of assigned segments,
select an Assigned batch in the list with your mouse and press the
VIEW/EDIT button. In either case, the Batch Assignment screen is
displayed. Refer to Warehouse Manager's
Station - Batch Assignment for further instruction.
Shipping Batches
When a batch is "Ready to Ship," select the SHIP BATCH button to
display the Shipment Confirmation screen. Refer to the Shipment
Confirmation screen for further instruction.
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