This is just a request of a sanity check on my plan to handle outbound ship
notices.
I realize this process is very dependent on our specific business processes,
and nobody can tell me if this will be successful, but I thought there may be a
chance someone might share some ideas or similar projects they have been
through. I also thought there was a chance someone would say OMG, why don't you
just do _____ because you've overcomplicated this 3 times over.
BACKGROUND: We have an ERP system that doesn't retain a relationship between
specific cases and pallets in the database.
We still use an antiquated ASN application that's a parallel process with the
rest of our shipping procedures in the ERP.
Besides being a monumentally crappy setup, it's fragile, arcane, and very labor
intensive. I'm even leaving out a bunch of steps for brevity, and for fear my
post will be considered a friday joke.
MY VERY SUMMARIZED PLAN: Since I think the only piece of data that's missing is
the relationship between cases and pallets, and our shipping crew actually
scribbles a pallet ID number on each line of the pick sheet as they are
palletizing the shipment, I was considering creating an internal webpage that a
shipping clerk could scan the shipment number on the pick sheet after it has
been "turned in" as ready to be loaded, and it could default to placing all
cartons on the first pallet ID (for small orders), and the clerk could update
which pallet each line's cartons were packed on for larger orders, mirroring
what the pickers have jotted down on the pick sheet. This part is very manual,
but it would remove an entire other system that they currently use and simplify
our EDI system as a whole significantly.
I'm sure I've left plenty out, so if anyone has any questions, I'll fill in the
blanks.
Make any sense? Sound ridiculous?
Thanks for reading,
Travis-
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