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Manually associating labels with containers

There are two ways to associate labels with containers in the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface: manual and automatic. This section contains the instructions for manually making these associations.

About this task
Use the Manual tab on the Verify panel to associate labels with containers when you do not have a reader to automatically scan tag values.
Note: You can also use the Manual Verify function to disassociate an item from a pallet. For example, if you mistakenly associate the wrong items with a container using the Auto Verify function, you can go to the Manual tab, select the appropriate purchase order and container, and remove those items.

The manual association process involves selecting the items from a purchase order, and then associating the items with a container. After the labels are associated with containers, you can validate the containers against the database records for outgoing shipments. To verify, you must have printed at least one case tag label and one container tag label.

Note: DOD tags (CAGE and DoDAAC) cannot be verified because they are not associated with products.
Procedure
  1. Open the Verify panel in the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface.
  2. Click the Manual tab. The Manual panel displays.
  3. Select the profile from the Profile field.
  4. In an integrated environment, select a purchase order from the Purchase Order field and click Select. In a non-integrated environment, manually enter the purchase order number and click Load. The Shipping container field displays a list of containers for which you have already printed tag labels. The Unassociated labels column displays a list of all items from the purchase order that are currently not associated with a container; these items may include labels and other containers.
  5. From the Shipping container field, select the container with which you want to associate the labels and click Load. A list of the labels that are currently associated with the selected container display in the Labels associated with container column.
    Note: In the Unassociated labels column, you can also select an item with children in its pack type containment hierarchy and click Make container. The selected item then displays in the Shipping container field, and now you can associate additional labels with this new container.
  6. From the Unassociated labels column, select the items that you want to associate with this container and click ->. The selected items display in the Labels associated with container column.
    Note: To remove an item from the Labels associated with container column, click <-.
  7. When you are finished, click Save container. In an integrated environment, the association is saved to the Premises server database and the Verification Report is updated to reflect the status of the items on the purchase order. In a non-integrated environment, the association is saved to the Premises server database, but no Verification Report displays.
  8. In an integrated environment, click Accept when you are satisfied with the results on the Verification Report. The symbols that display in the Status column are:
    • ? - indicates that these items are not yet loaded.
    • < - indicates that there are fewer items loaded onto the shipping container than there were on the purchase order.
    • > - indicates that there are more items loaded onto the shipping container than there were on the purchase order.
    • check mark - indicates that there are the same number of items on the purchase order as there were on the shipping container.
    The purchase order status in the enterprise system changes to partially filled until all items are associated.

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