Scan-to-verify

Scan-to-verify is an optional step that you can add to the outbound flow. It is a process that is used to verify if the handling units about to be loaded at the staging location match the handling units linked to the shipment lines in LN. If yes, the handling units can be loaded, the shipments can be confirmed, and the ASNs can be sent.

To start the scan-to-verify process, a shipment must be set to Frozen to prevent that changes are made to the shipment while scanning is in progress.

The verification is done by scanning the labels of the handling units at the loading dock.

If a scanned handling unit label matches a handling unit label in LN, the Confirmed for Shipping check box is selected for the handling unit. If all handling units are scanned successfully, the scan-to-verify process is completed and the shipment line to which the handling units are linked can be confirmed.

Note: When the Confirmed for Shipping check box is selected for a handling unit, the status of the handling unit is still Staged.

The status of the handling unit is set to Shipped when the linked shipment line is confirmed. The setting of the Confirm Shipment Lines when confirming Handling Units check box in the Warehousing Order Types (whinh0110m000) session determines whether the shipment lines are confirmed automatically when all of the linked handling units are confirmed.

In the Shipment Lines (whinh4131m000) session, the Indicator field shows the actions to be taken to complete the shipment procedure (which can include the scan-to-verify process). In the Shipments (whinh4130m000) and Shipment Lines (whinh4131m000) sessions, the Handling Unit Based Confirmation check box shows whether handling unit based confirmation is mandatory.

Setup

To use the scan-to-verify functionality, the Freeze Mandatory and the Handling Unit Based Confirmation check boxes must be selected in the Warehousing Order Types (whinh0110m000) session.

Automatically or manually confirming shipment lines when confirming handling units

The setting of the Confirm Shipment Lines when confirming Handling Units check box in the Warehousing Order Types (whinh0110m000) session determines whether the shipment lines are automatically confirmed when all of the linked handling units are confirmed.

Handling units are confirmed in one of these ways:

Using the Confirm option in the Handling Unit Tree.
Using the Confirm option on the Execute Outbound submenu of the Handling Units (whwmd5130m000) session.
After a successful scan if the scan-to-verify process is used.

As a result, the Confirmed for Shipping check box is selected for the handling unit.

The status of the handling unit changes to Shipped when the shipment line of the handling unit is confirmed. The shipment line is automatically confirmed if the Confirm Shipment Lines when confirming Handling Units check box is selected and all of the linked handling units are confirmed.

If the shipment lines containing the handling units are automatically confirmed, the status of the shipment lines changes to Confirmed and the status of the handling units changes to Shipped after the last handling unit is successfully scanned. Consequently, changes to the shipment lines or the handling units are not allowed.

If the shipment lines are not automatically confirmed after confirming the handling units, the shipment line status Frozen and the handling unit status Staged are retained. Consequently, you can adjust the shipping structure if required.

For example, if the shipment line contains 100 handling units of type Box but the truck can contain only 80 boxes. You can solve this by reopening the shipment line and setting 20 handling units of type Box to Not Shipped. Consequently, these handling units are no longer part of the shipment and the Confirmed for Shipping check box is cleared.

Unconfirmed handling units after scan is completed

If after scanning the bar code scanner generates an error message and some of the handling units of the shipments in LN are unconfirmed, the labels of the unconfirmed handling units of the shipment are different from the labels of the scanned handling units at the loading dock. This means that incorrect handling units are picked and must be replaced with the correct handling units. After replacement, the scanning process must be repeated for the newly picked handling units.