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Validating outgoing shipments

After you print tag labels and associate cases with containers, you can validate that the outgoing containers are associated with the correct purchase order.

When the outgoing shipments are ready to exit the dock door, use the Ship feature in the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface to check the tag labels on the containers against the data that you registered in the WebSphere® Premises Server database during the Verify phase. When the containers are scanned, the system attempts to match the container tag with a purchase order in the database. If the scanned tag matches the association with the purchase order in the database, a green light displays on the light tree and the shipment can proceed. If the scanned container tag does not match the purchase order, a red light displays on the light tree.

Prerequisites

Before beginning this process, ensure that you have completed the following prerequisites:
  1. You must have printed at least one case tag label and one container tag label, and made an association using the Verify function.
  2. You must have disabled the CaseFilter property from the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console. If filtering is set, there are two places where you must turn off filtering: externally as described directly below in steps 2.a through 2.g and internally (inside the reader agent) as described below step 2.g.
    1. Log on to the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console.
    2. Depending on the version of the Data Capture and Delivery that you are running, navigate to Data Capture Configuration > Agent Configuration from the left pane.
    3. Select FilterAgent from the Reader Agent field.
    4. Select Filters from the Agent Properties field.
    5. Change the Property Value field to display only Duplicates.
    6. Click Update. The changes are saved.
    7. Restart theData Capture and Delivery environment using the /dts/dts.bat or /dts/dts.sh command.
    To turn off filtering and aggregation inside the reader, clear the following fields:
    • RfidInventory/AggregationMaskSetting value=""
    • RfidInventory/DuplicateFilteringExpression" value=""
    • RfidInventory/TagAggregatingExpression" value=""
    • RfidInventory/TagMaskSetting" value=""

Validating outgoing shipments

Procedure
  1. Open the Ship panel in the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface.
  2. 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. The available readers defined in the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console display in the Reader ID field.
  3. Select the reader to use for scanning the RFID tags from the Reader ID field.
    Note: If you create a new reader in the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console and want to use that reader for automatic verification, you must either restart WebSphere Application Server or restart the Common Services application in the WebSphere Application Server administrative console before continuing.
    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.
  4. Click Start to turn on your motion sensor and begin reading tags. As the container moves through the dock door, the motion detector senses movement, the reader begins reading, and the scanned items display in the Expected tags column.
    Note: If you scan a container tag that is not associated with the purchase order, then an exception displays in the Unexpected tags column and the red light on the light tree displays.
  5. Click Stop when finished reading tags to turn off your motion sensor. The green light on the light tree displays after each successful container scan, and the database is updated to reflect the shipment. In an integrated environment, the purchase order status is changed to Shipped after the containers are scanned.

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