Sicon Barcoding & Warehousing 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.
Release notes:
221.0.54
Issues Resolved New FeaturesNew Features
- Wave Pack function has been added to the hand held device main menu (when enabled in Barcoding, Settings, user permissions), #9768.
Waves that have been picked, can then be packed and despatched on the hand held device.
- Split waves into groups for multiple pickers, #9767.
- New setting/functionality added to ‘Force scan of package when picking/packing on sales order wave’.
- New setting/functionality added to ‘Assign build kits stock from bin with fill allocated stock quantity available’, #10579.
- New setting ‘Prompt for traceable components added to control selecting traceable components when backflushing a works order (replacing ‘Use Sage SOP stock fulfilment setting’), #10101.
- Warehouse notifications are now flagged as ‘deleted’ when cleared, not hard-deleted from the database, so available for reporting if required, #9802.
Did you know, we’ve added the ability to split waves into groups for multiple pickers?
When picking waves on the device, the system can split the wave, so that multiple pickers are assigned part of the wave to pick. Cache picking needs to be enabled in Barcoding SOP Settings and the relevant setting to split the wave by a quantity needs to be set.
When creating a wave via the create multiple sales order waves, the expected number of pickers show.
When selecting the wave on the device, the system will assigned part of the wave to the user. In the example below 4 lines with a total quantity of 12 have been assigned to the user for picking.
If another barcode user goes into the same wave, they are assigned the next part of the wave.
Issues Resolved
Fix Despatch Sales Orders ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object. (Server 500)’ if a box has been deleted but box/item still exists.
Fix wave creation ‘Attempted to divide by zero’ error and automatically set new wave ‘ready to pick’ if RTP is enabled for waves in configuration settings, #9767.
Maintain Sales Order move up/down buttons are now disabled if the default sort sequence is overridden by a column being clicked.
Fixed cache picking when picking waves. The caches were been deleted continuously, and therefore no gain was happening if cache picking was ‘on’ and removed the Delete Cache when clearing a user lock on a sales order or a wave as replaced with Clean Up Stale Cache process which is run afterwards, #9767.
Remove ‘stockItemWarehouseItemsLookup1’ from Stock Transfer form to fix build error following change in Common Components.
Software dependancies: App. 221.92.16.0
Date applied: June 26, 2024
221.0.53
Issues Resolved New FeaturesNew Features
- Add new setting to control selecting traceable components when backflushing, #10101.
- Despatch Sales Orders stock item pick/pack automatically printed labels added, #9769.
- Wave Pick ‘Ready To Pick’ flag added along with the ability to move waves up/down in picking sequence, #9766.
- Maintain Sales Order Waves screen select/unselect ready to pick buttons added, #9766.
- After waves are created from the Create Multiple Waves feature, we now display the wave numbers created, and display the Maintain Waves screen, #9765.
- Works Order Wave order selection filters now include works order area – Allows works orders to be filters by area when creating a wave in Sage.
- Added the ability to auto print labels when picking or packing
- We have added the ability to auto print a label when picking or packing on a sales order on the device. This allows labels to be printed without the need for the handheld user to confirm the print. To use the feature, the SOP item pick or pack label needs to be enabled.
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- Information around this feature can be found in the Utilities Settings – Labels of the Barcoding & Warehousing Help and User Guide.
- Added feature to split sales orders into multiple waves, #9765.
- A new method to easily create multiple waves in Sage has been added.
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- A list of sales orders can be produced using multiple selection criteria such as order dates and analysis codes. Once the list is finalised, clicking on Proceed will prompt the user how the orders need to be split into waves.
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- Clicking on Create Waves, then creates and displays the wave created.
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- The maintain wave screen then opens.
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- In this screen, waves can be set as ready to pick (when the ready to pick flag setting for waves is on), so they appear on the device. Waves can be re-sequenced (moved up and down) to control the order the waves appear on the device. The total value and quantity of the wave now show. Waves can now be re-opened from this screen. The wave description is set from the wave split criteria. It can be amended per the below example.
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- The wave description has been added to the wave screen on the device.
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- Information around this feature can be found in the Sage Menu – Waves – in the Barcoding & Warehousing Help and User Guide.
Issues Resolved
Fixed timeout issue when loading list of sales orders just before despatch of a wave, #10285.
Fix Receive Container ‘Unexpected error, POPToReceiveItemsAndSerials not found …’ when receiving a free text item/line, Case 40535.
Fix Maintain Sales Order Waves screen not populating assigned to user or wave status columns, #9766.
Fix Works Orders Book-in ‘Index was out of range …’ error when WOP is configured to set finished goods batch to works order number, #10314.
Fix Despatch Sales Orders ‘Insufficient stock allocated in pick warehouse. If this is for a Sales Order, the line may be corrupt and require re-allocating’ error on pack if cached picking is enabled, the item is traceable and multiple stock item allocations existed at the point of picking, Case 28924.
Date applied: June 12, 2024
221.0.51
Issues Resolved New FeaturesNew Features
Added ability to allocate or issue to outstanding works order lines on goods received, or via a new menu item, #9728.
Did you know we’ve added the ability to allocate or issue to outstanding works order lines on the goods received?
When receiving a Purchase Order on the device, there is a new option to allocate or issue the receiving stock to a Sicon Works Order.
After receiving in the stock, the item can be selected and then allocated or issued to open works orders.
The feature is controlled by the following setting;
Find out more about this feature here.
Issues Resolved
Replenishment with Smart Picking enabled no longer moves individual future demand quantities, allowing partial/split SOP allocation quantities to be moved during replenishment, Case 33597.
Stop ‘picked’ bins being automatically deleted when movement balances are deleted, such as when PO Invoice Matching with unconfirmed costs configured, Case 39913.
Post Enhancement Pack ‘Staged Nominal Accrual’ (POP020) journal when Receiving Purchase Orders with a GRNI nominal code configured, Case 39169.
Fix Amend Despatch screen ‘No bin location found for StockItemDbKey – and WarehouseDbKey 0’ when amending despatch of a free-text sales order line, Case 31921.
If SOP Despatch is picked from a replenishment/picked bin reduce the replenishment quantity as stock will now have been moved, Case 24625.
Fix Update Companies ‘Invalid object name ‘SiconStockItem” error when creating SQL view SiconWABStockSettingView.
Fix Stock Enquiry by Traceable Item batch/serial barcodes not recognised, US 9926.
Fix Despatch Sales Orders ‘Serial selection failed on item ‘xxxx’, identification no ‘xxxx’, bin ‘Picked:SOP’ – Of x.xxxxxxx supplied, x.xxxxxxx were unavailable’ when packing all items with traceable, US 10175.
Date applied: May 22, 2024
221.0.49
Issues Resolved New FeaturesNew Features
- If Sicon Documents is installed, and Despatch Notes are printed when despatching a Sales Order, they are now automatically stored in Sicon Documents and can be viewed in the Sales Order from the View Documents button. #9462.
- Added user permissions settings for WOP picking, issue, book, and backflush, #9113.
- We’ve added new WOP user settings for picking, issuing, booking and backflush, which allow greater control of handheld permissions.
The quantity left to backflush has been added to the backflush screen on the device; this indicates to the barcode user how much of the finished item is left to process.
We now honour the WOP setting to allow booking in the finished item before issuing all component items.
If not all compment items have been issued, warnings are now given when booking in the finished items, where the relevant WOP settings are enabled.
- Apply Works Order setting to allow booking in finished item before all items are issued, #9112.
- Purchase Order maintenance ‘Multiple Dates…’ button is now disabled, US 4427.
- Works Orders now allows the user to issue individual picked items/quantities – Allows individual works order lines to be issued on the device. (server 221.0.33 required).
Issues Resolved
Enter Sales Order Wave / Enter Works Order Wave now validate selected sales/works orders on save to stop orders being selected for multiple waves by users on different screens, Case 39323.
Fix Maintain Locations list red-cross if a zone was deleted while locations are linked, Cases 39760 & 39707.
Fix Despatch Sales Orders ‘Sequence contains no elements ‘ error if stock control is configured to assign batch/serials at allocation and multiple SOP allocations exist for the same batch/serial number, US 9629.
Fix Despatch Sales Orders ‘Object reference not set …’ error when a sales order is selected and cached picking is enabled, US 9677.
Fix Despatch Sales Orders Pack All Picked Items ‘Sequence contains no elements ‘ error for traceable item when batch/serials are assigned at allocation, US 9618.
Fix Dynamic Stocktake ‘The highlighted items use batch/serial numbering and require numbers to be confirmed …’ error when reducing allocated quantity of a traceable item with batch/serials assigned at allocation, US 9631.
Fix Wave Pick showing incorrect packaging type in list of boxes/totes, Case 39014.
Software dependancies: App. 221.92.11.0
Date applied: May 1, 2024
221.0.48
Issues Resolved New FeaturesNew Features
Settings screen Stock Control tab Analysis Codes tab/list added for Inspection results, US 8797.
Inspection fail/pass now prompt to enter reasons based on configured stock analysis codes, US 8797.
Single Item Transfer, Put Away, Multi-Item Transfer & Warehouse Transfer now allow changes to traceable item batch attributes (see Dependencies), Case 38366.
Replenishment now see any Customer Stock Allocations as ‘free stock’, allowing them to be moved as part of the replenishment process, Case 33597.
Amend Despatch from device now moves stock to the put-away bin, Case 38557.
Allow the user to change the courier when processing a Tote Pack, #8340.
Improvement to the inspection process
Improvements to the inspection process on the handheld have been made, so that inspection results can be recorded on the device. Stock transaction analysis records have been used to record the results; they are configured in Sage in the barcoding settings.
When inspecting the stock on the device and passing or failing the item, free text results can be recorded in the analysis fields.
These are visible in Sage in the stock history and also in the barcoding warehouse notifications.
More information can be found here.
In addition, there is now the ability when failing stock to move the stock into a warehouse of choice of the user.
This is controlled by the following barcoding POP setting.
Issues Resolved
Fix PO Receipt use/sell by dates not being stored against stock transactions for auto-generated batch/serial numbers, including default by shelf life if configured, Case 38274.
Fix Works Order book-in finished goods not storing alternative/additional reference for auto-generated batch/serial numbered traceable items (with batch attributes), US 9332.
Replenishment consolidation of picked quantities from different bins for the same target bin to stop the Replenishment put-away tab listing the same item multiple times if it will be picked from different bins, Case 33597.
Software dependancies: App. 221.92.10.0 + Sicon Common Components 221.0.69 or later
Date applied: April 17, 2024