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License plate

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Hi All ,

AX 2012  R2

I know that to generate the license plate a number sequence will be defined and using this number sequence license plates will be generated.

The question is at what transaction level the license plate will be generated ?

How can I see all generated license plates in AX 2012 ?

How can I see the license plates with qty and without qty ?

How can I reuse the same license plate for a purchase transaction ?

When it comes to purchase order / Sales return order /production order level , at which scenario new license plate will be generated ?

Can we attach different batch items into one single license plate ?

Thanks in advance.

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    fatihgork 3,815 on at
    RE: License plate

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    Thanks Fatih for the reply .

    The application version is AX 2012 R3 only.

    Fatih Gork

    These two locations must be license plate controlled. By design. There are also staging locations that needs to be license plate controlled but I will pass it since it is not really a part of your question. 

    Thanks in advance.

    Hi lally,

    The warehouse locations are actual bins in your warehouse. When you are issuing a sales order or transfer order, application will generate a work to direct the picker to the proper locations. You can also configure the application to apply a picking route so you can decrease picker's walk path by the way.

    When you check your inventory from on-hand forms, you will see that you have 20 items in your Location1, and 10 in Location2 for example, in the simplest configuration.
    However, if you configure these locations to be license plate controlled, you can have the detail of these 20@Location1 and 10@Location 2 as: 10 @ LicensePlate1 and 5@License Plate 2 and 5@ License Plate 2 in Location1 etc..
    It is basically a business model, if you do not need such a detail you do not need to do this kind of setup.
    We are using advanced warehouse management functionality in one of our retailer clients, that is distributing over 30.000 items from their warehouse per day and they do not need such tracking. They use location level only, in their put locations.

    [quote][/quote]

    Fatih Gork

    However, I had experiences to face with standard bugs in this validation and ask our developers to fix them. So, it is better to let AX generate it. Or you will need to do some fixes there.

    Could you explain bit more on this as i'm not clear that which option do you suggest ?

    Hi,

    Basically tick the "Generate license plate" functionality on your item receiving and issue mobile device menuitems so you will be using a new license plate every time. 

    It won't effect sales orders much but, if you issue a transfer order this way (By using mobile device) you can only accept it in the target warehouse by scanning license plate. So, the person who will receive this transfer at target will need to know the license plate id. This means, for transfer issues there will be a requirement to print or manually write the generated license plate ID on every shipping container.

  • lally Profile Picture
    lally 19,790 on at
    RE: License plate

    Thanks Fatih for the reply .

    The application version is AX 2012 R3 only.

    [quote user="Fatih Gork"]

    However, I had experiences to face with standard bugs in this validation and ask our developers to fix them. So, it is better to let AX generate it. Or you will need to do some fixes there.

    [/quote]

    Could you explain bit more on this as i'm not clear that which option do you suggest ?

    [quote user="Fatih Gork"]

    These two locations must be license plate controlled. By design. There are also staging locations that needs to be license plate controlled but I will pass it since it is not really a part of your question. 

    [/quote]

    I need some light on these locations also as I'm really confused on location also . Could you please explain with an example here also ?

    Thanks in advance.

  • fatihgork Profile Picture
    fatihgork 3,815 on at
    RE: License plate

    I certainly missed that, thank you Guy!

  • Guy Terry Profile Picture
    Guy Terry 28,621 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: License plate

    Hi lally,

    You say R2? Licence plate is not available in R2. Do you mean 'Pallet'? Or do you mean R3?

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    fatihgork 3,815 on at
    RE: License plate

    Hi Lally, 

    I numbered your questions as below. And my answers are under the quote.

    I hope that helps.

    [quote][/quote]

    Hi All ,

    AX 2012  R2

    I know that to generate the license plate a number sequence will be defined and using this number sequence license plates will be generated.

    1. The question is at what transaction level the license plate will be generated ?

    2. How can I see all generated license plates in AX 2012 ?

    3. How can I see the license plates with qty and without qty ?

    4. How can I reuse the same license plate for a purchase transaction ?

    5. When it comes to purchase order / Sales return order /production order level , at which scenario new license plate will be generated ?

    Can we attach different batch items into one single license plate ?

    Thanks in advance.

    1. LicensePlateId is a value in InventDim table. Simply, you decide whether you will be tracking your inventory with license plate dimension or not, when creating a warehouse location. However, for a warehouse to be able to accept and issue items, a default receipt location and one or more baydoor locations must be existing. 

    These two locations must be license plate controlled. By design. There are also staging locations that needs to be license plate controlled but I will pass it since it is not really a part of your question. So, license plate must be used in these two locations, at least. When you are making a transaction related to a license plate controlled location, you may generate a license plate or you can use an existing one. I will explain the "existing" concept in number #5.

    2. There is a form in AX, just for this purpose. Please refer to: Warehouse Management/Inquiries/License plates

    3. You can open Physical on-hand inventory form located under Warehouse Management/Inquiries, hit "Dimensions display", tick  "Licence plate" and filter license plate field with: !"" 

    4. To be able to do this, the license plate must be empty, or not empty but located in the warehouse you are performing your operation at.

    5. It is basically up to you. There are many configurations for this functionality and you can activate/deactivate it in many operations. And they are configured on mobile device menuitems. For example, when you are accepting an item in your warehouse, you can let application generate the license plate for you. In this case, you will always have new license plate ids every time this functionality is used. You can also let users enter the license plate id, when this occurs application will check if this license plate id already exists as in #2. If it does not exist then AX will generate it first and let you use it during your operation. If it does exist, then application will do the validations described at #4.  If these validations let you use it, you can. Otherwise AX will hopefully stop you. However, I had experiences to face with standard bugs in this validation and ask our developers to fix them. So, it is better to let AX generate it. Or you will need to do some fixes there.

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