Note: You can click thebutton (or press F5) to invoke specific field help from within the job panel.

Business Benefits

This option reduces the time required to create locations since the user may instruct the system to automatically generate a group of locations with MULTIPLE and valid Tiers (rather than for EACH Tier).

See the "Usage" section on how this is accomplished.

Note: For related documentation and workflows, see SL - Stock Locator.

Usage

A Tier is typically a "level" in a bay/column of a racked location; e.g. 01 through 03, A to D, etc. Multiple Tiers may be linked to a "Tier Code" which represents a group of like locations; e.g. in part of the warehouse there are racked locations with 4 tiers known as "A", "B", "C" and "D".

During the generation of multiple locations the user may select a Tier Code to instruct the system to build locations with specific and valid Tiers.

Example:

Building locations for ...

Aisle: 01
Side: W (West)
Columns: 001 to 030 (Column Code "30" = 001 to 030)
Tiers: A to D (Tier Code "4" = Tiers A to D)

After the user selects Tier Code "4" the system will ONLY build locations with Tiers A to D.

Locations generated by the System:

01W001A, 01W001B, 01W001C, 01W001D,
01W002A, 01W002B, 01W002C, 01W002D,
01W003A, 01W003B, 01W003C, 01W003D, etc.

Explanation of the Location Code 01W001A:

Aisle: 01
Side: W (West)
Column: 001
Tier: A

Related Videos: Build Tiers Note: To exit a video completely, click the e-Z Learn (back) button.

Preconditions

Determine whether you require a specific list of valid tier codes for a range of locations. For example, all racked locations have three levels; i.e., "A", "B" and "C".

Subsequent Actions

Optionally you may "Map" your actual/visual locations to the system's internal locations.

For more information on this process consult the on-line help for the following option SL.85 [Visual Location].

To generate a series of location use the following option SL.90 [Locations].

Program Fields and Functions

To review a text version of the field help, click here. Click the button (or press F5) to invoke field help at any time from within the job panel itself.