Rainbow pallets for ASN receipts

ASN's contain detailed information required for the receipt such as the item, license plate, quantity, and required lot attributes. Depending on the type of product and the supplier, the received license plates may contain multiple items that are packaged in cartons or pallets at the vendor.

Instead of separating the license plate at the time of receipt, an operation may want to receive the license plate as a rainbow pallet that consists of multiple items and use the existing rainbow pallet putaway function to place the product into the desired storage location.

You can use the Create Rainbow Pallets during Receiving option to automatically create the rainbow pallet at time of receipt for all lines on the ASN with the same license plate when a single scan receipt is performed from an RF or when the Receive All function is used from the workstation. Automatically creating a rainbow pallet eliminates a user from having to scan each item to build the rainbow pallet.

Rainbow pallets cannot be created for these receipt types:

• SSCC
• Case level
• Kit order
• Production order
• Production order return

Rainbow pallet receiver putaway only works when receiving LPNs associated with more than one item.

Before rainbow pallets can be created, these additional fields must be set for the Owner:

• On the Task tab: ASN Default – Create Rainbow Pallets during Receiving
• On the Processing tab:
  • Receiver performs Putaway
  • Prompt Receiver to perform Putaway
  • Default Putaway sequence for Rainbow and Stocker Putaway