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Setting up a warehouse in Foysonis involves creating the areas, locations and then the items. Once these base data are setup, users should verify the put away and allocation area configuration has been setup right. After that you should be able to receive and ship products from Foysonis. Outside of the Foysonis software, you need to make sure that you barcode your location, and able to use a pre-printed LPN label to attach to pallets or cases when you receive to scan the barcode and track it in Foysonis.

Setting up a warehouse in Foysonis requires users to create locations and areas matching the warehouse layout. By default, there is one default area created when a user signs up for the Foysonis application. Every warehouse operations has their unique setup, but primarily a warehouse will have two types of areas, one is a reserve storage area, where products will be stored but won't be used for picking products. That will be done in a dedicated pick face area. If pick face products are emptied out, then users would have to go to the reserve storage areas and locations to replenish products to the pick face area. But if the warehouse is small, then all areas and locations will be used as a pick face area.

To add or change areas, from the left navigation, select "Administration → Locations & Areas" (This is accessible only for Admin users).

"Location and Areas" screen displayed below will let users add the type of storage area, storage restriction, picking level restriction, and replenishment area when a user adds or edits an area in your warehouse.

Users can add items using the Items screen from the Admin menu. This will let users define unique item id, description, uom and other attributes for an item.

To access Items, from left navigation go to "Administration → Items".

You can easily import a large list of items into Foysonis by entering the item data in a CSV file template. Here is the CSV template to use for item import. Use can click on the "CSV Item Import" button as shown below to upload the file to Foysonis.

Receiving is the process by which inventory is brought into a warehouse and put away into storage locations. Users need to create a receipt with the information about the items going to be received into the warehouse. Once the receipt information is entered, the system will let users create the inventory and then store it in a system suggested location or a location selected by the user. Each receipt will have receipt lines detailing the item, expected quantity and UOM. As items are identified and received, the system will update the received quantity in the receipt line.

The receiving process involves the following steps

To access Receiving, click "Receiving" from left navigation.

Users can create a new receipt by clicking on the "New Receipt" button shown below. It will open up a sliding new receipt form to enter the receipt information.

You can search for the receipt by entering the receipt number, receipt status, and date range.

If products are identified, but have not been put away, you can click on the "Pending Putaway" button to look at those pallets and cases.

This is how the pop-up looks like. Users can click on the "Putaway" button for each pallet/case and then select a storage location to putaway.

Users will identify and create inventory at pallet or case level by clicking on the "Receive/Putaway" button on each receipt line.

Users would then enter the Pallet Id and the quantity to create inventory at pallet level in the warehouse. If the item is case tracked, then the users would enter the Case Id to identify the inventory in the warehouse.

Once the pallet or case is created, the user would then click on the "Putaway" button to find the storage location suggested by Foysonis. Users would then take the product to that location and scan it to confirm the deposit. The user could override the system suggested location and scan their own location selection if they choose to.

If the user has received all the products related to the receipt, the user would then close the receipt. Users will select the actions button and then select the 'close' menu option to close the receipt.

Users will create orders and then plan it into shipments for allocating inventory in the warehouse. Once the allocation is done, warehouse workers could complete the picking process to move products from storage location to a shipment staging location. If the product is being shipped on a truck, then it will be loaded to the truck and dispatched. For parcel shipping, the products will be taken to the parcel staging area, shipping labels will be printed and then sent using a parcel carrier.

The shipping process contains several steps that include processing a shipment until the inventory is loaded to a truck or trailer and the truck is dispatched.

These steps include:

The shipping process involves the following steps

Users create orders by clicking on the "New Order" button and then entering the order number, shipped to customer, the item information and the requested quantity in order lines etc.

Once the order is created, it needs to be planned into a shipment. Users will select the order lines and then click on the "Plan to Shipment" button to plan it to a shipment. It can be planned to a new shipment or be assigned to an existing shipment. If multiple orders go to the same customer, all of them can be easily planned into one shipment and shipped from the warehouse.

Users will click on the "Allocate" button to create pick work to pick products in the warehouse to satisfy the request for inventory in the shipment. If the allocation is successful, the user can click on the "View Picks" button to look at the pick work created. If there are any errors in allocation, users will be shown the reason for the error.

User selects staging location Once the user clicks on the "Allocate" button, a pop-up shows up like below and the user has to select a shipment staging location.

Once the allocation is successful, the user can easily click on the "View Picks" button to look at the generated picks.

Clicking on the "View Picks" button will display the pick information as shown below.

When finding inventory, if the item is date controlled, a FEFO (First Expire, First Out) inventory must be selected. If the item is non-date controlled, then a FIFO (First In, First Out) inventory must be used. This will make sure that the warehouse is clearing the inventory in proper industry standards.

Once products are picked and shipments have been moved to a staged status, users can load the picked inventory to the truck, print paperwork and then complete the shipment process using the "Shipping Dock" screen as displayed below.

The Active Shipments tab displays the active shipments by default. Active shipments means, any shipments currently in process in the warehouse. When displaying the details of the shipments, the system will display inventory that are picked for the shipment. Users can easily modify shipment quantity of a shipment line in case the shipping dock wants to short-ship the line.

LTL/TL shipment must be first loaded before the shipment can be completed. Users will click on the "Load" action option to load inventory to the truck.

When the load button is selected, the user should be prompted to enter the trailer/truck number in a small pop-up. Once the inventory is loaded to the truck, the shipment goes to "Completed" status.

Packing slips are printed per shipment basis. It contains information about what products are being shipped, the quantity of those products and the shipping address information of the customer.

The Bill of Lading document is a standard document for LTL/TL shipments. This document should be generated for each truck before it departs from a warehouse loaded with shipments. The users should be able to print the Bill of Lading documents after or at the time of closing the trailer.

Active trucks are any trucks that are not dispatched, but have active shipments. Once the shipment is in completed status, all the products are loaded to the truck, the user can print the paperwork and then close and dispatch the truck.

Users can search for shipped inventory from this screen based on item, shipment id, order number etc.

There are two main types of picking in Foysonis.

System will display the status of picks for each shipment. For each shipment user can look at the pallet picks, replenishment, list picks and shipment details.

Users can select the pick list to start the work by clicking on the "Start" button as shown below. List picks contain each and case picks.

Once you decide to pick to a pallet, then you confirm the picking operation in the screen as shown below where you will confirm the pick from Pallet/Case Id and the pick quantity.

Once all the picks in the list has been confirmed, then the system will direct the user to deposit the products to the shipment staging location.

Pallet picks let users pick products in pallets and move to shipment stating location. Users start the pallet picking process by clicking the "Confirm" button.

Inventory information is maintained accurately in Foysonis to perform fulfillment activities in a reliable and quick manner. Users can easily search for the inventory data based on various inventory attributes and also adjust the inventory data in the warehouse if there is a need for it.

The Foysonis View Inventory screen will let users view inventory in the warehouse. Users can search for inventory by item, Pallet or Case Id, location, area and additional inventory related fields.

Users will be able to move a pallet from one location to another, but the system will prevent/warn users if they try to move an inventory from a shipping staging or processing location other than its intended destination location. Users can move a case from one pallet to another, or from location A to location B. Users can move an each from location A to location B.

Users can add, modify and delete attributes of inventory in a location using the Inventory Adjustment screen.