Re: Receiving products using Scanners -- MAPICS-L

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Eric,

We are in the beginning stages of a project to do this (automated
receiving); we've been waiting for low cost R/F transceivers to connect to
our thin client PCs and they are now available.  We need large screens (to
view blueprints for receiving inspection) and mobility (R/F on thin
clients on a battery powered cart).  We will have to have two ways of
handling incoming orders.  The first way will have the vendors shipping us
the parts with the P.O. and (hopefully) the item# barcoded.  We will be
working on that on a vendor by vendor basis.  We plan on starting with
some "make to order" vendors that prepare parts for us in response to
specific customer orders, and we fax them an order form that they attach
to the parts when they are delivered (private trucking company).  We will
be sending them a barcode on our fax - our faxing software (Unifier/400
from Cornerstone Communications) supports that.  On our other vendors, we
are currently struggling to get them to provide the P.O. on the incoming
packages in human-readable, let alone bar codes.  We're trying.

What we are going to do is write a small vendor name search program that
will return a list of all open P.O.s for a given vendor (search by name),
and let the receiver select the P.O. from the list, then call MDCC's
Purchased Receipt program (we own MDCC).  If we didn't we could still
write the "RP" transaction, but we'd rather let MDCC do it.  Of course, it
would be nice if ISE and MAPICS would provide a search of open P.O.s by
vendor name to MDCC...... (hint hint).

Pop me an e-mail in 30 days and I'll let you know how it's going.

Dale @ Fleetwood





"Eric Wolf" <eric_a_wolf@hotmail.com>
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To the list,
Is anyone receiving products using PMC or PLMC via barcodes, scanners,
etc.?
If so, how are you getting the barcodes onto the incoming documents?  Are
you
shipping a label with your Purchase Order, or are you printing the barcode
on
the Purchase order?  I have a customer that wants to start receiving this
way
but does not have PM&C.  They are using Midrange's PQR which does not
allow
the using of scanners.  Has anyone modified this to do this?

Thanks for any help...
Eric A. Wolf
Independent MAPICS Consultant

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