Re: Receiving products using Scanners -- MAPICS-L

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Dale,

Is the barcode that the vendor (hopefully) supplying, the MAPICS barcode?

Eric
>From: DaleGindlesperger@fft-inc.com
>Reply-To: mapics-l@midrange.com
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>Subject: Re: Receiving products using Scanners
>Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:57:48 -0400
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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
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>"Eric Wolf"
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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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