Barcoding & Warehousing v20

The Sicon Barcoding & Warehousing module is integrated in real time with the Sage 200 stock and order processing modules, plus it fully supports all of the Sicon additions including Job costing for issues and returns, works orders for picking and building assemblies, and distribution manager for pre-allocation of stock at goods in.

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200.0.29

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix SOP Despatch quantity corruption if the same stock item on separate stock lines is packed into the same box. This issue appears to be fixed by v21.1 so fix shouldn’t need to be merged forward.


Date applied: December 17, 2021

200.0.28

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix for pick quantities being wildly different from allocations/order level, caused by smart picking and having negative stock enabled.
Labels now use the default printer if one is set up in Sage and errors from not having any printer set up now say as much in their exception message.
Fix despatch note printing using the packing list printer set against the user instead of the despatch note printer set against the user.
Fixed object reference error when using put back on sales orders for items in a box (or any package). The knock on effect of this error was that the user would pick items again, but the to despatch items were not removed. Therefore more items would be despatched than was required.


Date applied: December 1, 2021

200.0.27

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix ‘Could not load file or assembly ‘Sicon.Sage200.Projects.Objects …” when attempting to add a new sales order line from the hand held device.


Date applied: September 17, 2021

200.0.26

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix SOP Despatch pick/pack ‘Execution Timeout Expired’ error if the same bin/traceable item is read twice, possibly due to being on multiple allocations.


Date applied: June 23, 2021

200.44.0.15

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved

We now show the line description on the pick list for sales orders instead of stock item name. This is because items are grouped by description, and if the description is different on two lines for the same item, then we can see the difference from the pick list.


Date applied: June 23, 2021

200.0.25

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix ‘Object reference is not set …’ error on SOP Confirm Despatch Amend Batch/Serial button pressed when auto select button is not present.


Date applied: June 3, 2021

200.44.0.14

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved

Error popup/alert messages will now include app. version after the error message


Date applied: April 29, 2021

200.44.0.13

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix app. crash during SOP Despatch when entering batch item quantities


Date applied: January 4, 2021

200.44.0.12

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Improved focusing when scanning barcodes with the camera


Date applied: October 29, 2020

200.44.0.11

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Stock Enquiry Print Label validation change to remove ‘Serial Selection incomplete’ message which was incorrectly appearing if the number of labels (per serial) varied from the number of serials selected.


Date applied: September 28, 2020

200.44.0.10

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix for scanning a traceable item label on the stock enquiry screen. Sometimes it wouldn’t find the item – displaying an object reference error. This would especially occur for customer barcodes where there is only an ID number and not stock code in the custom barcode.


Date applied: September 21, 2020

200.0.15

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Receive Containers fix to ensure PO line items on the selected container are received, not lines on the PO for the same stock item linked to a different container.


Date applied: September 2, 2020

200.0.14

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix when packing is enabled, and items on SOP is moved after picked (before pack), and then packed into a box, it was displaying duplicate lines on the To despatch tab. One line was in the Unboxed box, and the other in the box it was packed into.


Date applied: August 28, 2020

200.0.13

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix sales order entry ‘Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.’ when adding a new order line.


Date applied: August 13, 2020

200.44.0.9

New Features Change in Functionality
New Features

App. Center crashes/errors writes user|companyname to ‘User ID’


Change in Functionality

Fixed problem where if a purchase order fails to process a receipt for whatever reason, it was sometimes crashing the app instead of reporting the problem on screen.
Fix for a cast error when scanning a complex barcode on the enter batch details screen (when adding stock or PO receipt, etc.).
SOP Despatch ‘Enter number of boxes’ now requires a number to be entered.


Date applied: August 10, 2020

200.0.12

New Features Change in Functionality
New Features

Added picked by and pick state on sales order desktop list.


Change in Functionality

Reduced expiry warning message to 3 days instead of 15.
Fix for sales orders appearing on handheld device even if sales order has been despatched. This would happen for sales orders where the warehouse has been set on the header, and that had free text lines on them, and the ready to pick flag had been set.
Fix SOP picked quantities being increased above required quantity if the ‘move to’ function has been used after picking.
Fix Amend Despatch SOP ‘Bin xxxxxxxx not found for the specified stock item and warehouse’ error if put-away bin is not already setup for the item/warehouse.


Software dependancies: Requires Sicon Common Components 20xx.200.0.17 or later.

Date applied: July 28, 2020

200.44.0.8

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

When scanning a complex barcode with traceable details, and setting to auto set quantity is selected, and setting to scan stock item before bin is selected, the traceable item is now pre populated without having to scan it a second time.


Date applied: July 23, 2020

200.44.0.7

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved

Fix to custom barcodes – If the format didn’t include a stock code, only an id number, then it would fail when scanning the custom barcode for the traceable number.

Enabled android back button to move back in app
Fix problem with message ‘Will lose data’ popping up multiple times in odd places. Its supposed to only pop up if closing a sales order.

Fix for scanning complex barcode on picking a traceable item screen when setting for auto set quantity is turned on – was not auto setting the quantity to the required pick.


Date applied: July 20, 2020

200.0.11

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fixed problem with enabling users on settings screen where if more users were enabled than licensed; the whole list of users would become disabled.
Fixes to amend sales order screen:
– Performance on displaying ready to pick flag improved.
– Large red cross appearing when ‘complete’ column selected.
– Intermittent object reference error when showing quantities.
– Intermittent cross thread error when showing quantities.
– Sage freezing when adding sales order lines from Eureka SOP plus addon.
Fix for performance/memory problems when setting SOP invoice printing defaults against customers for large numbers of customers. This was tested against 190000 customers.


Date applied: July 13, 2020

200.0.10

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix Update Companies ‘Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition.’ error.


Date applied: July 9, 2020

200.44.0.6

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix for when selecting a bin for a destination, after scanning bin it wasn’t closing the bin selection screen. If entered manually it would close the screen. This bin selection screen is used in a number of places. For example, when receiving stock direct to bin on a purchase order for multiple items, or stock transfers when moving multiple items, or for moving pallets in pre release version.
Follow-up change to number of boxes entry.


Date applied: July 9, 2020

200.0.9

Issues Resolved
Issues Resolved

Fix for when creating dynamic stocktake on device, it was including Picked bins. There are now excluded.

Fix to receiving purchase order lines – was showing lines flagged as ‘Confirm as service free text’. These lines are now excluded.


Date applied: July 2, 2020

200.44.0.5

Change in Functionality Important
Important Info

Includes builds 200.44.0.3 & 200.44.0.4.


Change in Functionality

Change to resolve intermittent problem which results in user prompted to enter the number of boxes multiple times.
Internal Issue/Return now checks free stock before posting internal issue + item list long-press function added to remove an item from the list.


Date applied: July 1, 2020

200.0.8

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix to setting ready to pick flag when allocating kits if the kit is linked to the sales order.
Fix for maintain location screen if smart picking is on, the bin definitions were displaying incorrectly.


Date applied: June 30, 2020

200.0.7

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

If SOP despatch fails due to missing batch/serial number allocations the affected item code will be shown in the error.


Date applied: June 28, 2020

200.44.0.2

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix for scanning serial/batch numbers that start with ’10’. It was recognising the barcode as a complex barcode and therefore cutting the 10 off.
Kit build/disassemble selection now allows filtering/selection by finished item code, bin location or batch/serial number.
Fixed select bin and stock item screen when scanning item to increase the quantity for each scan and not reset quantity to 1. This screen is used when adding stock to a works order, adding sales order line to a sales order, and adding lines to a Sicon stock transfer


Date applied: June 24, 2020

200.0.6

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Print SOP Invoice global setting is not maintained by customer account.


Date applied: June 23, 2020

200.0.5

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Tilted Wave Pick no longer lists the same item multiple times for different SOP line descriptions.


Date applied: June 23, 2020

200.0.4

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix SOP Despatch picking allocation error if ‘AllowPickingUnallocatedSalesOrders’ setting is enabled.


Date applied: June 18, 2020

200.0.3

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Package now includes correct/updated v20 models assembly (Sicon.WM.Models.dll).


Date applied: June 17, 2020

200.0.2

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

Fix SOP Despatch with kit build ‘An item with the same key has already been added’ error caused by ‘Unboxed’ box records being created with quantities different to allocations over multiple-bin locations.


Date applied: June 16, 2020

200.0.1

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

SOP Despatch add item/line now sets current login warehouse if no default set on sales order header (server).
Fix for enabling pick unallocated sales orders with catch weight turned off.


Date applied: June 4, 2020

200.44.0.1

Change in Functionality
Change in Functionality

SOP Despatch add item/line now sets current login warehouse if no default set on sales order header.
Works order fix when adding a traceable item component line.


Date applied: May 21, 2020

200.44.0.1

Date applied: May 21, 2020

200.44.0.0

Issues Resolved New Features
New Features

Add SOP Amend Despatch functions

Add Stock now prompts to backflush if a built item is selected for add

Added traceable item enquiry screen

Added ability to pick up all items from a bin when doing a multi item transfer

Added feature to amend the works order quantity for a completed works order. The finished item must be traceable.


Issues Resolved

Fix for issuing additional non traceable items to a works order

Fixed problem with SOP returns crashing randomly while entering values. This would happen with large sop returns – lots of lines.

fixed problem with divide by zero error when building kit

Fixed problem with app crashing when printing a traceable labels off a purchase order.

Auto fill qty picked required after scanning bin and batch details – The traceable quantity is now auto filled when the serial/batch number is scanned on the selected traceable item screen.

Also fixed problem when auto fill is on, but the quantity expected is a decimal quantity, then it would pop up asking to enter the quantity. This now doesn’t happen, the quantity is simply auto filled.

Fix ‘Serial number quantity does not match selected quantity …’ validation error when despatching traceable items against an unallocated sales order

SOP Despatch will not show traceable quantities/dates if batch/serial is manually added (via scan) instead selecting from the list, because quantities/dates are not populated in these cases

 


Date applied: May 15, 2020

200.0.0

Issues Resolved New Features
New Features

POP Receive Container now stores attached photos against all generated receipts (with Sicon Documents)

Added WOP & Kit book-in default labels

WAB user setting to access Hire Transfers added

Date of last stock count is now set on the bin item if a dynamic stock take is done.

SOP box number auto-generation now formats sequential suffix as 3 digits, e.g. 001, 002, 003.

SOP Despatch box number suffix will now be 001, 002, 003, 004

Added disassemble Kit feature

Enable catch weight setting moved from global setting to stock item

Added new allow add SOP line user permission

Add methods for SOP Amend Despatch

Add Stock now prompts to backflush if a built item is selected for add

Added traceable item enquiry screen

Dynamic stocktake item count user is now stored

Added option to print invoice at sales order despatch

Added ability to pick up all items from a bin when doing a multi item transfer

Added feature to pick oldest stock first when smart picking is on.

Added WO finished item amendment feature via traceable enquiry screen.


Issues Resolved

Improved loading of settings screen in Sage 200

When WO booking-in to complete a works order automatically set all un-issued bulk issue item quantities to zero, as is the case if the user pressed <Yes> when booking-in via Sage screen

Add/Edit User screen ‘Toggle All’ button now also sets Feature Permission boxes in the lower screen

Change packing list report name to WAB packing list. Fixes problem of packing list not working on new installs

Warehouse Notifications fix for missing item/warehouse names and item barcode issues not listed

SOP return receipt now always prompts user to select batch/serial numbers for traceable items.  This is to fix ‘Sequence contains no elements’ error if confirming receipt for a traceable item without ‘Batch & serial numbers must be recorded when goods are received’ selected.

Catch weight not allowed with sale from single batch setting

Fix internal issue/return ‘ Error: Transaction history record not found for user ‘xxxxxx’, item id ‘xxxxx’, transaction date ‘xx xxx xxxx’ (Server 500) caused by barcoding changing TransactionHistory.UserName before job costing has read it.

Fix for error when opening Enter Wave screen in Sage 200

Works order pre allocated to sales orders now automatically allocate to the sales order when the works order is booked in on the handheld.

Correctly sort stock transfers by trasfer reference when opening the Sicon Stock Shortages transfer screen

Fixed problem with multi item stock transfer – was failing to create a multi item transfer saying that the history records does not exist

Fixed problem with despatching service or free text sales order lines when packing is enabled – when viewing the sales order in sage, it was showing the quantity picked as negative.

Fix to part issue a works order line. It may not have issued the picked items previously, it may have issued the unpicked items.

Changed checking if module is enabled. It now only warns the user once that the module has expired when sage is opened.

Updated the url generation for downloading the app on the settings screen. This was because bitly stopped using v3 and we had to move to v4. This prevents problems where the URL for the download would be too long, and the qr code couldn’t be generated. Therefore the qr code wouldn’t work to download the app.


Date applied: May 14, 2020