The Container Setup functionality provides the Pick into Container functionality to pick inventory into a target container. If an assignment requires container setup, the system prompts the user to add containers to perform the pick task. The user is allowed to add as many containers required to perform the assignment. However, in order to be able to pick a new container, the user should first drop the previous container.
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Refer to the VLP Bookshelf Guide.
Each VoxBlock contains a number of properties. However, activate the properties selectively depending on the type of workflow that you are configuring. This section discusses the Container Setup VoxBlock properties that are activated for the PICKING workflow.
When you click Container Setup VoxBlock, the Container Setup - VoxBlock Properties panel is displayed on the left side of the VoxStudio user interface, as shown in the following figure.
This panel is divided into the following parts based on the functionality:
This is an outbound synchronous event that waits for response from the Sterling Warehouse Management System in the form of container type to be used for picking. The following figure shows the SterlingWMS_ContainerTypeRequest_85 transport associated to the Container Request event. The YNW_ContainerTypeRequest_85 service returns the container type (pallet or case) to be used for picking, based on the task type configuration.
The following figure shows the registration of the Container Request event with the SterlingWMS_ContainerTypeRequest_85 transport.
This is an outbound synchronous event that waits for response from the Sterling Warehouse Management System in the form of VLP Confirmation XML, with an Error Code attribute. The value of the Error Code attribute is 0 if it is a valid container in the Sterling Warehouse Management System, otherwise, the value is 2. The following figure shows the SterlingWMS_ContainerIdValidate_85 transport associated to the Container Type Request event.
The following figure shows the registration of the Container ID Verification Request event with the SterlingWMS_ContainerIdValidate_85 transport.
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