Printing Bar Codes at Arrival—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

Inventory Locations

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up the inventory locations that are required to report arrival of the purchase parts.

Windows:
Inventory Locations

  1. Open the Inventory Locations window and create inventory locations of the following types: Arrival, Pallet Arrival, and Pallet Buffer.

General exercise for Inventory Locations

Purchase Part

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter an inventory registered purchase part.

Windows:
Inventory Part

  1. Enter an inventory registered purchase part, using the part number XX-88-201, replacing XX with your initials, and use the description Lilac Paint. Choose a suitable unit of measure and enter an estimated material cost.
  2. Enter pallet data for part XX-88-201, setting up relevant putaway zones for the inventory part.

General exercise for Purchase Part
General exercise for Enter Purchased Inventory Part
General exercise for Managing Pallets on Delivery Location

Supplier

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter the supplier for the purchased parts.

Windows:
Supplier

  1. Create a new record with an identity of XX-190, replacing XX with your initials, and the name Racing Color Company.
  2. On the General tab, click English as the default language.
  3. On the Address/Purchase Address Info tab, right-click and then click Supply Chain Matrix for Supplier. In the To Demand Site tab enter  CIF (Cost Insurance Freight) as the delivery term, 30 (Road Transport) as the ship-via code, 2 as the external transport lead time, and 1 as the internal transport lead time.
  4. On the Invoice/General tab, click USD as the currency.
  5. On the Purchase/General tab, enter yourself as the buyer and USD as the currency.

General exercise for Supplier
General exercise for Setting Up Supplier-to-Site Supply Chain Parameters for Trading

Supplier for Purchase Part

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to connect the purchase parts to the corresponding supplier.

Windows:
Supplier for Purchase Part

  1. Connect the purchase part XX-88-201 (Lilac Paint) to supplier XX-190 (Racing Color Company), using the Receive into Arrival receive case.
  2. Set the standard pack size to one.

General exercise for Supplier for Purchase Part

Required Data

Purchase Order

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you the required data that is used in the exercises below.

  1. In the Purchase Order window, enter a purchase order for supplier XX-190 (Racing Color Company). Enter two purchase order lines for the purchase part XX-88-201 (Lilac Paint). Release the purchase order and make a note of the purchase order number.

General exercise for Entering Purchase Orders
General exercise for Handling Purchase Orders

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to show you how to print bar codes when receiving parts and pallets.

Windows:
Register Purchase Order Arrivals
 Purchase Order Receipt

Printing Bar Codes for Purchase Parts at Arrival

  1. Open the Register Purchase Order Arrivals window and query for one of the purchase order lines.
  2. Select the purchase order line, and right-click and then click Receive Order. The Receive window appears.
  3. If desired, enter a receipt reference in the field with the same name.
  4. Select the Print Barcodes check box.
  5. If you want to print an arrival report, select the Print Arrival Report check box.
  6. In the Receive Case field, verify that the receive case is Receive into Arrival. If not, change it to this value.
  7. In the Location No field, select Arrival.
  8. Click OK. If you have chosen to print an arrival report, the Report Print window appears. Click OK to print the arrival report or click Preview for an on-screen preview. The Print Barcode Labels window appears.
  9. By default, the Use Predefined check box is selected. However, you can clear it. This check box indicates whether the predefined pack size value should be used. If this check box is selected, you will not be able to enter a value in the User Defined field. For this exercise, leave the check box selected.
  10. By default, the Number of copies field has the value 1. However, you can change the number of copies to be made. For example, if you enter 2 in this field, one identical copy will be printed for each bar code label.
  11. Click OK. 
  12. You are prompted to indicate whether you want to print the bar codes with or without previewing them. Click No.
  13. You now see the bar code labels on the screen. How many labels were created? Why?
  14. Click Print to print the labels.

Printing Bar Codes for Pallets at Arrival

  1. Open the Register Purchase Order Arrivals window and query for one of the purchase order lines.
  2. Select the purchase order line, and right-click and then click Receive Order. The Receive window appears.
  3. If desired, enter a receipt reference in the field with the same name.
  4. If you want to print an arrival report, select the Print Arrival Report check box.
  5. In the Receive Case field, verify that the receive case is Receive into Arrival. If not, change it to this value.
  6. In the Location No field, select Pallet Arrival.
  7. Click OK. If you have chosen to print an arrival report, the Report Print window appears. Click OK to print the arrival report or click Preview for an on-screen preview.
  8. Open the Purchase Order Receipt window and query for the purchase order line.
  9. In the Pallet tab, select the pallets, and right-click and then click Print Barcode Labels. A preview of the bar codes is displayed. What information is displayed on the labels?
  10. Click Print to print the labels.