Print Picking Tickets

This is a WinTPS Production Management feature.

Print Production Tickets will print a document used as a worksheet to begin the assembly of a rental order. It will contain the critical information necessary to assemble the rental order, including event names, customer name, pickup date, styles, sizes notes, picking ticket number & optionally a Store / Account / Week / sequence number. Example store/account 105, year 2012, week 30 order sequence 6 (say the account for the week has 75 orders, and the order being printed is the 6th one printed, so the sequence is 6). The order's pickup date determines the week number. = 1051230-6The Production ticket printed format may be modified by BBL to meet specific requirements. Contact BBL for more information on available formats.

Production tickets may be printed on Laser Printers, Dot Matrix printers (not recommended due to slow speed) and special tag printers, like the Zebra models. The default format is set for a laser printer and will print a single production ticket per 8.5 x 11 size paper.

Every rental order needs to be produced and shipped by a certain date (assembly date) to reach the account/store and customer in time for the order’s use date. WinTPS automatically arrives at the assembly date using the use date and assembly time information (see what is availability for more information). The assembly date is displayed on each rental order.To help manage the production process the operator may selectively print the Picking Tickets.

Print Criteria

First, a assembly date range will be requested.Next, the Stores(s) that the production warehouse may want to assemble first (leave blank for all stores/accounts) a Shipping method of the orders. For example, orders with a shipping method called UPS Red with assembly date of today could be requested to get those produced first.

A maximum number of picking tickets to print may be specified. For example, there could be 1000 orders that match & 1000 picking tickets need to print. A laser printer with a 500 sheet paper drawer is used to print the tickets. The maximum number to print can be set to 500 so the printer drawer may be refilled. The system will print 500 tickets then stop. The operator would repeat the selection critera to print the remaining 500.

A store class can be optionally specified. Each Store/Account may have store class, selected on the Rental tab of the Stores/Accounts form. This can be used to group stores/accounts and print tickets only for a certain group. For example, stores might be classified as Platinum, Gold, or Standard accounts. Picking tickets for the Platinum stores would be printed first, followed by Gold, and finally Standard. An item type can be optionally specified. Only matching item types will be assigned picking ticket numbers and printed. For example, if an order contains a coat and shoes, and “shoes” is entered as the item type, then the picking ticket printed will contain only the shoes, and the coat will not be assigned a picking ticket number.

Print tickets only if items are on-hand? will only print picking tickets for orders where the ALL items contained on the order are actually in inventory. This option will not print pick tickets for items that are not in inventory for assembly. When this option is checked the system will re-display the total orders per day that have rental inventory available to assemble onto the orders. It is aware of items that have been marked for sub-rental and allows those items to be printed regardless of quantity on-hand in inventory. This option could be utilized early in the production period so the production tickets printed can be fully assembled. Later, the option may be turned off so ALL remaining order picking tickets will print. WinTPS checks each item's total inventory quantity available for rental, deducts items already out or assembled, deducts items used on picking tickets already printed, and if the items needed for this picking ticket are still available, it will print the ticket. This option is checked or unchecked by default based on the System Set-up - Rental Tab option, Check on-hand Qty for pick Tickets.

Include 'special' item types? If this is left unchecked, then the pick tickets will not include item types with the 'Print pick tickets separately?' option checked. If it is checked, they will. This is used for special item types, such as top hats or canes, that are not normally picked with the rest of the rental order.

Once all criteria is entered click the SEARCH button.

All orders found that match will be displayed within the grid. The grid will have a assembly date and a number next to it. The number represents the total orders that need to be produced/assembled and shipped on that date. Most production operations will begin assembling the orders prior to the date to avoid last minute rushes. The operator may selectively choose which dates to print by clicking each one and placing a check next to the day(s) to print. If all dates with their corresponding orders are to be printed, simply click the Select all button.

When ready click the Print button

Printer Notes

The Printer assigned to print Picking Tickets within ProfitSystem© is defined in the Main->Housekeeping->General Setup->Printers form. This setting may be overwritten by inserting a weekday name within the name of the printers available to the station printing Picking tickets. When a printer is available that contains a weekday in it's name ProfitSystem© will print the Picking Tickets to that printer WHEN the day of assembly matches the weekday name of the printer. For example, say the operator is printing Picking tickets for the upcoming week. Picking Tickets are being printed for a Monday assemble date. WinTPS© will automatically print those production tickets to an installed printer where it's name contains MONDAY. WinTPS© will do this for each day of the week. WinTPS© will print to the printer defined in the Printer Form when printers DO NOT contain the day of week within their name for the day being printed.

The Day of Week option may be overwritten via the NoDOWPickPrint=YES setting in TPSWINS.INI file. It will not use the day of the week printer with this setting.

The system will automatically assign picking ticket sequence numbers to each rental order and store it with the order before printing the Picking tickets. It will also display the starting and ending numbers assigned prior to printing. These numbers should be written down. This would be helpful in case of a printer jam and all of the tickets do not print. The un-printed tickets could be reprinted by number range using the RePrint Picking Ticket function. This sequence number is also printed on the Orders Report for easy reference.

The picking ticket number will also be printed on the actual Picking Ticket. The picking ticket number for a order can be found on the rental order for review. Also, the Status of each item on the order will be changed to ‘In Assembly’.

Hint Orders that have not met the minimum Security Deposit or partial Payment rules set in the System Setup-> Rental Tab will not print. Unless the order's 'No sec dep/payment req? checkbox is checked, thus bypassing the rules.

Click the Done button to exit the form.

Technical Notes

There are special functions you can use when editing picking tickets.

PickLineType(rmresvnum) will print a block of text with all the line items ordered by item type number