In my previous blog, I briefly explained the concept of catch weight. Catch weight is a measurement for the actual weight of a product when it is being sent to customer. You can also refer to it as “approximate” weight. Catch weight is applicable for products in the food industry, e.g. meat, cheese, or shrimps. Meat is normally packed into special boxes. When a company sells 10 kg meat, the meat is being weighted, packed into the boxes, and then sent to a customer. In my last blog, I explained the basic setup of catch weight and the outbound process. In this blog I would like to explain the concept and setup of catch weight tags and the inbound process.
A tag gives information about products, e.g., the weight per catch weight unit. For instance, tag “T052022” represents a weight of 10 kg and provides details about the warehouse and location of product “M07022022-0815”. One can use tags when the weight does not change anymore during the outbound process. The catch weight tag makes the outbound process more efficient, because weight does not have to be determined again.
Configuration
1. For a released product, you need configure a “Catch weight item handling policy” first.
Path: Product information management > Products >Released products
2. The parameter ‘Catch weight tag tracked’ needs to be activated as well.
Note: If your item already has inventory transactions, do not change this setting. You might get errors during the inbound process.
3. Once the parameter “Catch weight tag tracked” is active, a few addition options will become available:
- Catch weight tag dimension tracking > determines which information tag is represented (only tracking, or also storage dimensions)
- Inbound catch weight tag capturing >determines how you will capture weight per tag
- Outbound catch weight tag capturing > determines whether you need to scan all the tags in case you choose a license plate with multiple tags.
Process
1. A purchase order with the product “M07042022-0812” and catch weight unit of 1 box.
2. In the warehouse app, the warehouse worker selects ‘Inbound’ from the menu, and then ‘Purchase receive’.
3. The warehouse worker enters the purchase order number.
4. Scanning the item number.
5. Entering the catch weight unit, 1 box.
6. Confirmation of the entered quantities.
7. The warehouse app/scanner will then ask the warehouse worker to scan and enter the catch weight tag. For this demo I will enter the tag “T07042022-0835”.
8. Warehouse app/scanner asks to enter the weight. For this demo, I will enter a weight of 10 kg – the weight associated with the tag.
9. Put away work being created
10. Execution of the put away work, from inbound to location A001 in the warehouse.
11. Posting a product receipt.
12. The registered tag is registered on the background in Dynamics automatically. The catch weight tag form shows useful information about the captured weight, registration status, location in the warehouse, work ID, etc.
Path: Warehouse management > Inquiries and reports > Catch weight tag
13. When you click on “Catch weight tag registration”, you will get a detailed overview of the transactions for a specific tag.
