We are trying to implement use of barcodes with Epicor kinetic warehouse. To use the bin tracker the warehouse must be entered first then enter or tab then bin. (Note, We have two warehouses setup in our plant to allow primary bin assignments in two areas so having primary warehouse default in does not help here.) Nonetheless, when a bin barcode (data matrix per below) is scanned on a tag, we would like the warehouse to get input first then movement to the next field on the bin tracker UI then the bin number. In bartender when I try to use the vbCr or line feed in conjunction with the warehouse and bin number in the data matrix code, it doesn’t seem to work… it just shows the warehouse and bin concatenated together in one field.
Here’s also my attempt to assign it to the bartender data sourcw. Does anyone have any experience / advice on how to get this to work?
Nancy, have you explored the barcode template functionality in EKMW?
In short, it allows you to configure your EKMW pages to account for a barcode to be scanned that contains 1 or many values and how to map those to the fields on the screen.
I am no expert here, but I believe what you are tying to do has more to do with how you configure the scan engine in your device than it does with EKMW. I don’t know what the pros/cons are of trying to do what you’re trying to do v.s. using the guide/functionality I mentioned are, but I hope it helps!
Also, if it makes sense for your workflow, you can go into the settings on the handheld and specify a default warehouse, so you don’t have to input the WH for transactions.
I am fascinated by this. I have heard you talk about this before, but I’ve never looked into it to be honest. I’d love to see a demo of that. Sounds like it solves a LOT of problems.
Yes, it changes as they add more and more to the app, not necessarily that they are moving cheese. That’s my experience anyways. In other words, they don’t seem to change the templates so that one day it’s working one way and the next day it’s different. They are only adding functionality to it and allowing for more templates to be created for each landing page in the app… That and they are working on getting GS1 standards implemented across all portions of the app where applicable and that seems to get added as more and more interest builds in each module/landing page.
Thanks for the heads up on this Garret. I’m very (can’t even tell you how much!) sorry to say we have two warehouses that share parts in our one plant / geographic location. We did it to facilitate having two primary bins, one for warehouse one for a mfg cell. Never again… Your suggestion would make it very easy to just have it default the warehouse in, if only we could use it!
Another solution would be to give the material handler a book (keyring, whatever) of a QR code corresponding to each WH they may need to work in so they can just scan that, maybe even have it tab to the next field so they can scan the bin label.
Nancy, I’ve got a similar situation with multiple warehouses in one site/plant. As we implemented AMM, this became a little problematic for receipts. I created BPMs for receipts that set the warehouse based on the workstation ID selected on the handheld. Maybe a BPM could be used to set the Warehouse on bin tracker based on the workstation ID?
Ditto; I split the plant into 2 warehouses in… 2019 (?) and we reversed course on it last year and are back to 1.
I had the same reasoning. We make some of the parts for the truck we sell, and then we make the truck itself. So I needed one primary bin for receiving completed parts to stock (a holding area till they get moved) and another “primary bin” for storage and/or backflushing against the job to build the truck.
Only good way for that was to have 2 warehouses.
It should have worked. But we employ humans.
Oh and cycle counting was a disaster with the same part living in 2 warehouses simultaneously.
Yup… It’s incredibly painful at physical inventory time. We’ve had it on our todo list for a couple years to reverse course on it but we keep putting it off. I hope I never gave you advice to make the two warehouses Jason.
We don’t plan to use workstations right now. We are fairly small with only a couple of personnel doing shipping / receiving / transfers / issues in each plant. I found this Location Template field thanks to @utaylor link but I’m still trying to figure out if it’ll do what we need on the bin tracker / bin scan.
The other multi value templates look pretty darn nifty, what with the GS1 implementation and all, but I’m just trying to do a basic here… scan a single barcode get the entry of both the bin warehouse and the bin number and go. I wonder if my names on my label datasource fields need to be exactly the same to get it to work.
