Barcoding

There are important things to consider, whenever you are bar-coding a
warehouse for order/job picking:

1. Set a standard label that the majority of your vendors can provide
(see AIAG - Automotive Industry Action Group for additional information).
2. Create the capability to print-verify receiving labels of purchased
items to be consistent with the above. Zebra might be expensive, yet has the
most comprehensive windows drivers (if that is what you have). Print-Verify
is a nice option. You know what you are printing is working.
3. Finish labeling all warehouses to be consistent with the label
above.
4. Shipping Labels - You might need to find a custom solution since
each customer might have different requirements. We use Report Builder, some
VB fields in the customer (Our Vendor Number, RB report to use, etc.) and in
the Ship Detail line (Container Number, Qty per Container, Weight, etc.),
and a progress procedure that asks how many labels are needed per container.
Misha1 helped us with the programming and customer requirements.
5. Most of the Vantage forms come with barcodes. Installing keyboard
wedges in data collection terminals could save a lot of typing.

Once you set up these, you could move to creating a system for order/job
picking. I have something in place to pick component orders, yet I have many
issues like:

1. Order Release remains open until packing slip is marked "Shipped".
2. Inventory is not released at the moment of picking the part, but
when the packing slip is marked "Shipped". We created a warehouse called
shipping and do part transfers for each part picked....
3. Would like to evaluate the Advance Materials module. It supposed to
work on selecting order releases and place them in a queue. In Customer
Shipment, there is an option in top "Pick Orders..." that you could use if
your picker is using an 800X600 resolution terminal (Wireless - Web enable
if using TS, etc.).

I use Access to control the picking and maintain a history of items picked
(to avoid picking twice the same order release). Also, I use Access to do
the transfers of parts picked to the Shipping Warehouse and working now on
creating packing slips with the same information.

Good Luck!

Mario Aguirre
Lakin General

-----Original Message-----
From: geh525 [mailto:gardeehill@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:48 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Barcoding

I have been given a directive to get the barcoding running for our
shop. I have talked to Epicor and they are of little help. I am
wanting to talk to someone who has implemented barcoding in their
company so I might be able to start off in the right direction. ANY
help would be great!

Gardee Hill
Network Administrator
Andritz-Ruthner, Inc.





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Does anyone know how to create barcodes for use with Vantage 4.0. What I am
looking for are the special characters that will make data collection easier
by allowing the users to just click on barcodes (off data sheets by the data
collection terminals) versus having to use the mouse. An example would be
to Start Activity, for an employee, you can use "Alt S", so this is what I
would like to code. I have found that "*1*" will do a carriage return but I
need the various Alt keys to automate the process. Is there a list of these
codes anywhere? I appreciate any help that can be given.
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It may depend a lot on the barcode scanner you are using. On the
Welch-Allyn ImageTeam 3800 that we use the manual says (I have not tried
this) you can simulate the ALT key-down and ALT key-up on each side of the
desired character (such as S) by using the ANSI character codes for ETX and
EOT (03 and O4 respectively). So I believe that ALT-S could be created as a
character field with the value CHR(03) + 'S' + CHR(04).

More info is at the web page: http://www.csensors.com/kbdwedge2.html
<http://www.csensors.com/kbdwedge2.html>

We've only been using Data Collection a couple months and one of our
projects for 2001 is a big push on scanning to reduce errors. So if you
come across any good revelations in this area (or if the above suggestion
works or not) let me know. Again, a lot of this stuff is very dependent on
the scanner and what the vendor has provided for supported interface keys.

Good luck,
-Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Pachniak [mailto:paul_pachniak@...]
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:35 AM
To: vantage@egroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Barcoding


Does anyone know how to create barcodes for use with Vantage 4.0. What I am

looking for are the special characters that will make data collection easier

by allowing the users to just click on barcodes (off data sheets by the data

collection terminals) versus having to use the mouse. An example would be
to Start Activity, for an employee, you can use "Alt S", so this is what I
would like to code. I have found that "*1*" will do a carriage return but I

need the various Alt keys to automate the process. Is there a list of these

codes anywhere? I appreciate any help that can be given.
_________________________________________________________________
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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
I have been given a directive to get the barcoding running for our
shop. I have talked to Epicor and they are of little help. I am
wanting to talk to someone who has implemented barcoding in their
company so I might be able to start off in the right direction. ANY
help would be great!

Gardee Hill
Network Administrator
Andritz-Ruthner, Inc.
Depending on what you are bar coding it should be very easy. We have bar codes on the job traveler that shop people use for data collection, we have them on shipping labels (often tailored to specific customer demands) and we have them for employee badge sheets. Most of it printed with Crystal or Report Builder and using the supplied Dataworks Code 39 font. Labels are printed on a Zebra Z4M label printer and are no more difficult than printing to a laser printer. We use Welch-Allyn ImageTeam gun type scanners that plug in-line in the PC keyboard line with no programming required. If you have specific questions feel free to contact me off-list or better yet ask away on-list for future reference by other group members.

-Todd C.

-----Original Message-----
From: geh525 [mailto:gardeehill@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:48 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Barcoding


I have been given a directive to get the barcoding running for our
shop. I have talked to Epicor and they are of little help. I am
wanting to talk to someone who has implemented barcoding in their
company so I might be able to start off in the right direction. ANY
help would be great!

Gardee Hill
Network Administrator
Andritz-Ruthner, Inc.



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You can print barcodes with just about everything. You can use scanners to
read the barcodes and enter the data as though it was entered from the
keyboard. However, Vantage is not a true barcode application. A true
barcode application uses prefixes in all barcodes and when a barcode is
scanned, the software reads the prefix and handles the following data
correctly. Vantage does not use prefixes..... so if you take a traveler
with barcodes and while your cursor is in the jobno field in vantage, scan
an operation number, vantage errors with no such jobno.

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Caughey [mailto:caugheyt@...]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 8:11 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Barcoding


Depending on what you are bar coding it should be very easy. We have bar
codes on the job traveler that shop people use for data collection, we have
them on shipping labels (often tailored to specific customer demands) and we
have them for employee badge sheets. Most of it printed with Crystal or
Report Builder and using the supplied Dataworks Code 39 font. Labels are
printed on a Zebra Z4M label printer and are no more difficult than printing
to a laser printer. We use Welch-Allyn ImageTeam gun type scanners that
plug in-line in the PC keyboard line with no programming required. If you
have specific questions feel free to contact me off-list or better yet ask
away on-list for future reference by other group members.

-Todd C.

-----Original Message-----
From: geh525 [mailto:gardeehill@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:48 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Barcoding


I have been given a directive to get the barcoding running for our
shop. I have talked to Epicor and they are of little help. I am
wanting to talk to someone who has implemented barcoding in their
company so I might be able to start off in the right direction. ANY
help would be great!

Gardee Hill
Network Administrator
Andritz-Ruthner, Inc.