Handling Cut Products Using RF

Cuttable products can be handled if you use an RF (radio frequency) warehouse setup. In an RF environment, cut products are added to orders as all other product types. Because RF is branch-specific, you must decide whether to use the standard RF Picking for cut products or to use the Cut Product Queue to manage the products that need to be cut, however, you must choose one process per branch.

RF Picking and Staging Cut Products

The system uses the same standard RF picking and staging process:

• RF Picking Screen - The user ID is the same as the cutter as indicated on the Warehouse In Process Queue. The user selects the order to pick and cut and exits the screen to the Pick In Process screen. The system also handles RF through the Picking Select screen. For more information about picking products, see Selecting Orders to Pick.

• Pick In Process Screen - The system verifies the product, location, and lot number and scan the tote. The user cuts the product, per instructions. If a user scans the tote without cutting the product, the system accepts that you have already cut the product.

• Staging Screen - Displays the order number and the tote number selected. The user scans a location where the material should stay until picked up or scheduled for delivery.

Note: The RF gun indicates if the cut is a standard cut, such as 1@500, or a parallel cut, such as Parall:1@10ft, by highlighting the message in red on the picking screen.

RF Staging

When the Staging Screen displays the order number and the tote number selected, then the user scans a location where the material should stay until picked up or scheduled for delivery. When staging a sales order that contains cut products, the system validates the location in RF Staging against the setting in Zone Maintenance. The location displays on the RF Staging screen. This location serves as the put-away location on the receiving generations and updates to the sales or transfer order to which it is tagged.

Use the Create Staged Tote option in the Settings pane of Cut Product Maintenance to indicate which branches need to use a separate step for staging totes. Without this option set to Yes, the system automatically validates against the setting in Zone Maintenance.

Closing Cut Product Orders for RF

All picks / cuts on an order must be completed before you can close the order. When completed, the system marks the order completed all related RF processes are closed out. The staging location is also the pick location for the user who picks the completed sales order.

For information about RF Warehouse details, see the RF Warehouse Management Overview for descriptions and direction to documentation.