Using Bar Codes for Inventory Locations—Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Basic Data Setup

Entering Inventory Location Group

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter the inventory location group needed to perform the main exercise.

Windows:
Inventory Location Groups

  1. Create picking location group with a location group of XXPIC (where XX stands for your initials), a description of XX Picking Group, and a location type of Picking.

General exercise for Entering Inventory Locations

Entering Inventory Location

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter the inventory location needed to perform the main exercise.

Windows:
Inventory Location

  1. Create an inventory location with a location number of XX-P1 (where XX stands for your initials), a location name of Picking 1, and a location group of XXPIC.

General exercise for Entering Inventory Locations 

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to learn how to create and print bar codes for inventory locations.

Windows:
Inventory Location

Note: The font, 3of9.ttf, has to be installed on your PC.

Creating and Printing Bar Code Labels for Inventory Location

  1. Open the Inventory Locations window.
  2. Create a bar code label for one of your locations by selecting the desired location. Right-click and then click Print Barcode Labels.
  3. Study the preview. What is stated on the label?