Is it possible to add scanners to Acumatica to the receiving process?
Best answer by rosenjon
View originalIs it possible to add scanners to Acumatica to the receiving process?
Best answer by rosenjon
View originalYes, Acumatica has a mobile app with a built in WMS. The WMS product is not as mature as some other solutions on the market, so I would recommend testing it for your use case (it can be a little laggy and its user interface a bit confusing, in my opinion). However, it does exist and function for relatively low volume warehouse work. In newer versions of Acumatica, they have “paperless” workflows where you can send orders straight to the handheld to be picked, packed and shipped.
For receiving work, you issue a purchase receipt and remove the hold in the desktop app, and then product can be received and put away from the mobile app (scanned to a location in the warehouse).
You will have to setup at least one warehouse with locations for racks etc to put stuff away in order to use WMS for receiving. You can enable the WMS feature in the Enable Features section of Acumatica. Then do necessary setup, and download the Acumatica mobile app for Android or iOS to use the WMS app for receiving or shipping product.
By “scanners”, do you mean just the input device plugged into a USB port, or a full mobile terminal with OS, screen, built-in scanner, and battery, connected by wireless network?
The latter, mobile terminals, can be used with Acumatica’s warehouse management module. If you run a browser on it, you can actually open any screen, but the sizing might cause a lot of scrolling.
A USB cabled or blue-tooth scanner is just an input device. The text from any barcode scan gets sent to the workstation’s keyboard buffer. Any application won’t be able to tell the difference between scanned and typed data. The data just lands wherever your cursor is positioned.
So yes, scanners can be added to the receiving process. How you do it will depend on your constraints.
We use scanners without any WMS bar code reading in some freight in and all frieght out Works great.
Thank you all!
I build a customization that allows you to print barcode labels straight from the inventory lookup screen in the WMS app. I’m happy to share that if you want. It uses PrintNode (as opposed to DeviceHub), because it is a lot faster to print labels directlly with that setup. PrintNode costs a little money, but it’s relatively inexpensive. You would need to setup a networked Zebra label printer to use it.
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Here are a couple screenshots from the app. If you aren’t the admin of the site, you may need your admin to add mobile app login to your list of permissions, as well as WMS permissions. I have done this before, but it has been a while. I usually just login with the admin login, which gives you access to everything generally.
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If you want to play with it and it hasn’t already been setup, make sure it is in a beta or development system that is not your production system. Then you can enable it, configure it, and play around.
Currently, label printing is mostly driven automatically from certain parts of the order flow process (i.e. I think you can have labels automatically print when Shipment is created, for example). However, there isn’t really a way to print labels to a Zebra type printer from the mobile app on-demand..the concept in the software currently is you will print them to a laser printer using DeviceHub. There are some integrations that allow label printing, but nothing out of the box, and I’m not sure if the integrations work with the Acumatica mobile app currently.
So I built a customization that adds a “Print Label” button to the mobile app on the inventory lookup screen in the WMS, so that you can print a barcode for that item that is scannable in the app. It needs some more work (i.e. to be able to scan any printer on demand and print to that specific printer). Right now it’s just hardcoded to whatever label printer you have added to PrintNode and hardcoded in the solution.
Anyway, it is a way to print an item label to a Zebra label printer directly from the mobile app. If you put a mobile Zebra printer on Wifi, you could carry it around with you and label an entire warehouse by looking up the item in the mobile app, and then printing a label for it, for example.
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