Craig Cameron Columbus Global Senior business consultant

Many AX / D365 customers have supply chain requirements that include scanning barcodes that are formatted to the GS1-128 standard. This includes barcodes that have multiple data elements where each element starts with an Application identifier and can either be fixed or variable length.

1. For use with the D365 Warehouse App and WHSWorkExecute
2. Parameters to signify special characters for "start of barcode", "end of barcode" and "end of variable length barcode segment"
3. New table for GS1-128 Application identifiers e.g. 00 = SSCC (Licence plate), 10 = Batch etc.
4. New table to map the Warehouse App fields to individual barcode segments e.g. 00 = Licence plate, 10 = Batch
5. A single scan of a barcode that includes multiple data elements, each with its own GS1-128 Application identifier, will populate all associated fields, e.g. during Purchase receive, one scan will populate Batch + Batch date + Expiry date
6. Scanning will include the removal of the Application identifier e.g. 00012345678012345678 will be processed as Licence plate = 012345678012345678
7. Applies to all Warehouse App activities that involve the scan of a barcode

When receiving licence plates against a Purchase order using the Warehouse App, the batch form appears for every Licence plate. This is too time consuming to process. Also many customers want a 1:1 relationship between the AX batch and the Supplier batch as part of their quality / food safety requirements. What I am proposing are buttons on the Warehouse App:- 1. New batch 2. Use existing batch 3. Find previous batch When using the Warehouse App the process would be 1. Pallet / Licence plate 1 - enter Supplier batch reference and create new AX batch (AX can be created automatically or manually) 2. Pallet / Licence plate 2 - same AX batch as 1 so the Batch details do not appear 3. Pallet / Licence plate 3 - same AX batch as 1 so the Batch details do not appear 4. Pallet / Licence plate 4 - new Supplier batch reference so a new AX batch is created and details have to be entered 5. Pallet / Licence plate 5 - same AX batch as 4 so the Batch details do not appear 6. If pallets are being unloaded not in "batch order" then it is possible to scan the Supplier batch reference and retrieve the AX batch from pallets entered previously.

D365FO Quality orders are created in the standard way. Once created they can be updated using a Menu Item in the Warehouse App / Mobile device.

This was suggested to me by a customer who used a warehouse management system. In their previous employment (Fowler Welch, they used a system called Enterprise Software), and once the orders where generated they all dropped into an order pool. It was then the planners job to assign these (by drag and drop) onto the loads/journeys. This would give the flexibility to easily move an order when a vehicle is at capacity or for a business reason. Please vote, think it's a good idea

An improved Data entity for importing Print management settings for any combination of customer/supplier account and document type. e.g. customer invoice + email address or Free text invoice + specified printer The current data entity does not even work for updating existing entries.