GX:New to GS

Infor ADAGE ERP 4.5 TEE Interface

Now in addition to interfacing with ADAGE 2.5/2.6/3.X, Whistle fully intergrates with the new ADAGE TEE interface engine. This continues to provide a seamless interface to this popular Process ERP.

Allocate Customers

GS features a new Allocate Customers Window, to allocate pallets to a particular customer.

Purchase Order Returns

GS features a new Purchase Order Returns Window.

Deallocate Pallet

GS features a new Deallocate Pallets Window, to deallocate pallets which have been allocated to a particular order or customer, but have not yet been loaded, shipped, or deleted.

Rotate Stock by Manufacturing Date

As an option now you can rotate stock by manufacturing date instead of pull (expiration) date

Multi-Move Window

There's a new setting to limit the number of pallets that can be moved at one time. As most fork trucks have a finite number of pallets that they can move at once, this setting is useful for enforcing that users are inputting data consistent with the physical process.

Also, if the user scans the maximum number of pallets the cursor now defaults to the next empty field, saving a minimum of two key presses.

Load Ship Window

Modified load ship window such that a free form carrier could be used as an alternate to the pre-defined list of carriers in the ERP system.

Blended MTO & MTS Production Reporting

New window for palletizing cases some of which were produced specifically for a customer and some of which were made to inventory. Enforces MTO stock be stacked exclusivly with inventory reserved for order and MTS inventory be stacked exclusivly with non-reserved inventory of the same item, and optionally lot.

Staging Process

A new concept of "reserved" inventory was introduced to distingush between inventory that is reserved for a specific use, be it a particular customer or order, vs. inventory that has physcially been staged.

Load Planning Window

A setting was to disable collection of a staging slot.

Build Pallet Window

Enabled building of catch weighted cases from inventory manually without first needing a UCC128 barcode.

Added validation to insure that automatically reported cases weren't being re-built from inventory.

Split Pallet Window

Added optional message to warn users when they are attempting to combine inventory of different status.

Receiving Window

The "Case Adder" functionality was re-implemented to use the Whistle vendor label decoding logic. Scans of vendor labels through the case adder result in an entry into a new table: wmCaseScans.

Added support for state dependant shelf lives by item. This is useful when an item can be received in different states, for example: fresh, frozen, thawed, for which there are corresponding shelf lives. When multiple shelf life states are defined for an item the user selects the state from a drop down list.

Added support for an Export Verification program. Ingredient approval types specified at time of receipt can now be configured to be validated at time of production issue.

Added support for UCC128 vendor labels: If a vendor label to deliver from cross reference is not set up (or explicitly pointed to the UCC128 definition) a default UCC 128 label layout is used as specified by a reserved label definition (-1) which will recognize frequently used UCC128 tags in an arbitrary order.

Added option to perform a Whistle Only receipt, which is used to receive inventory in Whistle, that was previously received in the ERP, as is sometimes the case when inventory is received at an outside warehouse.

Vendor Label Parsing Window

Removed obviated scale fields which are now accessible by Control-S from most quantity fields.

Inventory Adjustments

Corrected several potential system instabilities when generating sublotted inventory adjustments.

Cycle Counting

Counting pallets on HARD HOLD is now explicitly handled.

User Parameter Setup

It is now possible to setup a user parameter that does not appear on any screen.

Production Reporting

Added the ability to print product specific GUI designed case labels.

There is a new setting: "EV certify primary outputs". When this setting is checked, production reported of primary outputs will carry the same certification of input ingredients such that reported WIP can be later issued to an order requiring EV certification.

Production Issuing

Corrected a defect where the incorrect quantity and UOM were being suggested when the default UOM was different from the stock keeping UOM.

Report Menu

Added the ability to preprint built-in Whistle BOLs using ordered quantities.

Printserver and Printserver Deux

Portions of new printserver, dubbed Printserver Deux, which is integrated to Seagull's Bartender application which enables printing of GUI designed labels, as well as Whistle invoked Crystal Reports. In GS, Printserver Deux and Printserver are separate applications, in the GT release; they will be unified into a monolithic application.

To the pallet label printed through the standard Whistleserver, we've exposed several new fields:

• "SSCCHR" the SSCC-18 barcode and human readable number.It is 01 + Manufacturing ID + Serial Number (ie Tracking Number)
• "CustPTNo" the customer part number,
• All of the varchar user parameters, each named by the column in the db, for example: wms_user_paramVC1.

QC Testing

Added support for operators such as <, >, and =, to enable support for tests that specify target values in Infor 4.5 and onward.

Item Reclassification

Added the option to allow users to alter the lot and quantity as a part of the reclassification process.

Whistleserver

The there are several major architectural changes to the Whistleserver in GS.

• All binary transactions have been eliminated--that leaves only XML and other text based transaction requests.
• The Transaction requests are now submitted directly to a directory tree monitored by the Whistleserver, instead of having all transactions go through the transaction monitor. This enabled us to make the primary Whistleserver process single threaded.
• Extended transaction logging and monitoring data.

System Wide

Added a new shortcut key to the multi-move window: Control-Z which can be used from virtually all windows in Whistle.

Corrected several low-level memory leaks.

Many item-quantity fields now support a Control-S shortcut which invokes the scale interface window which pulls weights directly from a hardware scale.

Revised permission architecture so that addition of new permissions do not change the size of binary messages.

There is a new bin attribute that indicates whether items can be mixed in that bin.