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Automatically associating labels with containers

After you print the tag labels, use the second function, Verify, in the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface to associate the labels with containers.

Use the Automatic tab on the Verify panel to scan your tags with a reader, rather than manually enter them into the application. If the tags are expected -- that is, printed using the specified purchase order -- and at least one expected container tag has been read, these tags are automatically associated when you click Save Associations.

These associations are saved to your back-end enterprise system in an integrated environment or to the WebSphere® Premises Server database in a non-integrated environment so that outgoing shipments can be validated against the database.

Note: DOD tags (CAGE and DoDAAC) cannot be verified because they are not associated with products.

Prerequisites

Before beginning this process, be sure that you have printed at least one case tag label and one container tag label.

Automatically associating cases with containers

Procedure
  1. Open the Verify panel in the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface.
  2. Click the Automatic tab. The Automatic panel displays.
  3. From the Profile field, select a profile.
  4. In an integrated environment, select the purchase order that contains the items that you want to verify from the Purchase Order field and click Select. In a non-integrated environment, manually enter the purchase order number. The available readers defined in the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console display in the Reader ID field.
  5. From the Reader ID field, select the reader to use for scanning the tag values.
    The following icons represent the status of the reader:
    • The reader is off, but available - The reader is off, but available.
    • The reader status is unavailable - The reader status is unavailable.
    • The reader is on and ready to read tags - The reader is on and ready to read tags.
    Note: The "ready" icon means that the reader is ready to read tags, but it does not necessarily mean that it is reading tags currently. If the portal state is already on, the status may show as reading, but you still need to click the Start button to start reading tags in the console.
  6. Click Start to turn on the motion sensor and begin reading tags. The reader turns on when the motion sensor detects movement.
  7. Scan the tags, ensuring that you scan only one container tag. If you scan more than one, you cannot make the association because the system always uses the label that was read last. Labels that follow the pack type containment hierarchy appear in the Expected labels column.
    Note: Labels that do not follow the pack type containment hierarchy appear in the Unexpected labels column. However, note that overages and underages do not display in that column. In an integrated environment, they display in the Status column of the Verification Report; in a non-integrated environment, they do not display.
  8. When the reader finishes reading the tags, click Stop to turn off the motion sensor.
  9. Click Save Associations to associate the case tag labels with the container tag label. 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.
  10. 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 on the shipping container.
    The purchase order status in the enterprise system changes to partially filled until all items are associated.
  11. Click Reset to clear the existing screen and re-scan your tag labels.

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