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Has anyone started using the new Group Put-Away Cluster? I am having issues with the initial set-up on Creating Group Cluster.

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Guy Terry 28,924 Moderator on at

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Hi tammyann1973

I have never used it. What problem are you having?

Did you notice that MS have published a video on this topic?:

docs.microsoft.com/.../put-away-clusters

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Hi Guy,

Yes I have reviewed the video, but after I receive in my product it won't let me Create a Cluster. The video only shows setting up the Cluster Profile and not the Mobile Menu options for Creating and Assigning the Cluster.

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Guy Terry 28,924 Moderator on at

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Hi

It is not enabled in my play environment, but I do have some documentation on it.

Create a Mobile device menu item (Mode = Indirect) with Activity code = Assign to putaway cluster.

Create another mobile device menu item (Mode = Work, Use existing work = Yes) and set Directed by to Cluster putaway.

On your PO item receiving mobile device menu item, enable Sort and assign putaway cluster.

When you receive items, the Putaway work that is created will be assigned a Putaway cluster profile Id.

When you have finished receiving items, go to the Assign to putaway cluster menu item (Cluster Id can be created manually, or automatically), and scan each LP (or Work Id) that should be assigned to a single Putaway cluster. When you're done, use Close cluster.

Go to your Cluster putaway menu item. Enter the Cluster Id, and off you go!

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Hello,

On my PO Item Receiving Mobile Device Menu, I do not have an option to enable Sort.

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Guy Terry 28,924 Moderator on at

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You can't use it with Mixed LP Receiving. You'll need to change it to Purchase order item receiving or Purchase order line receiving.

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When I changed it to PO Item Receiving I still didn't get an option

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Guy Terry 28,924 Moderator on at

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Er, ok. I guess its possible that the documentation I have is from pre-release. Perhaps its that Assign putaway cluster, which you have there.

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Hi tammyann1973, did you ever get this piece figure out? I am also just trying to figure out this new functionality but cannot seem to assign work IDs to a cluster using the indirect menu item "Assign to putaway cluster."

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AliceBarendregt 1,470 on at

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Hi Tammy and MJHughes,

Hopefully, you both were able to solve the issues you encountered earlier already. If not, see my comments below.

The mobile device menu items that you need to set up as part of the putaway cluster functionality are the menu items that were specified by Guy Terry earlier as well.

1. Receive and sort cluster

2. Assing cluster - this menu item must only be used if the assign putaway cluster at receipt is not marked for use on the putaway cluster profile.

3. Cluster putaway - to be used for putting away the cluster once it has been assigned.

Depending on your setup, upon receiving the PO, the system will display a message that the work and LP have been sorted. In case you auto-generate the cluster-ID it will also mention to which cluster-ID it has been assigned. Moreover, the putaway cluster will be assigned towards your purchase order work as well.

The cluster profile ID setup that I used can be found below.

Any questions, let me know.

Thanks,

Alice

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MJHughes2000 20 on at

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Thanks Alice.

Have you seen the training feature exploration video put out by MSFT (www.microsoft.com/.../RE4f5aB) I am wondering how he was able to simply receive the PO items without assigning them to a cluster. Later, he simply used the "assign to cluster" mobile device mobile item to assign them to a cluster he identified. So far, MSFT has only told me that I'd have to manually assign a cluster profile to each work ID to do that. That does work but seems highly inefficient.

Ultimately, I want the receiver to receive the product and apply the receiving label to the box. Then a user can come and gather any receipts and assign them to the putaway cluster which would likely be a fixed name on their fork lift. Finally, they would putaway the receipts in the cluster they assigned them to. Pretty much exactly how he did it in the video, but I am not having any luck with that process.

The setup above asked me to assign the receipt to a cluster ID, but it did not let me create a new cluster ID. I'll keep playing with the configs, but if you have any input on how to reach the desired outcome I mentioned above, that would be amazing!

Thanks

Michael

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