Use Carton Loading to load manifests by cartons onto delivery vehicles. When you select a manifest for Carton Loading, the system directs you to load each of the manifest's cartons in reverse-delivery sequence. Cartons being delivered last are loaded first and cartons being delivered first are loaded last.
Carton Loading is an RF application, and it is much like RF Tote Loading. You can use any method to pick orders being loaded through Carton Loading, but you must be an RF warehouse to use Carton Loading. In addition, you can only load orders that are part of a manifest. To use Carton Loading, a manifest's cartons must be packed using Carton Packing.
With Carton Loading, the system directs you to load cartons on a manifest in reverse-delivery sequence. However, you can change the sequence in which to load a manifest by selecting a different carton to load – as long as it is on the same manifest. After loading a carton out of reverse-delivery sequence, you can continue to load a manifest with either system-directed or user-directed loading.
You can only load one manifest at a time with Carton Loading. After you load one manifest, you can select another manifest to load. You can also alternate between Carton Loading and Tote Loading for different manifests. You cannot alternate between the two types of loading on the same manifest, however.
Before loading a manifest, the following statuses must be assigned to its orders and cartons:
Orders must have a PACKED status.
Note: The system does not update an order's status to Packed until all picks for the order are complete. For example, if you do not pick pipe until right before loading trucks, the system will not update the pipe's order to Packed until the pipe is picked and packed.
Cartons must have PACKED or STAGED status.
As soon as you load a carton, the system updates its status to Loaded. The system also closes an order as soon as you have loaded all of its cartons. When you close a manifest from the Shipping Manifest Queue, the system updates the status of all cartons on the manifest to Shipped.
During the carton loading process, the system prints ship tickets or generates based on the following:
Settings defined for the ship via onto which the manifest is being loaded. For more information, see Setting Up Ship Vias for Order Packing and Carton Loading in this document.
Settings defined in the RF Manifest Report To Run After Truck LoadingRF Manifest Report To Run After Truck Loading control maintenance record for the branch in which the manifest is being loaded.
Before using Carton Loading, enable all ship vias with which to the use the functionality. For more information, see Setting Up Ship Vias for Order Packing and Carton Loading in this document.
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