Infoplus Product Update: Warehouse Loads and GS1-128 Labels; Enhanced Rate Shopping

Infoplus now has the ability for you to create Warehouse Loads, to track your outbound pallets, master cartons, and staged cartons, along with GS1-128 labels for your EDI / big-box retail orders. In addition, you now have greater control over how you rate shop in Infoplus, and we have one bonus update to help you get ahead of your fulfillment processing.

Product Updates

Warehouse Loads (Pallets, Master Cartons, Carton Staging)

To support outbound pallets and master cartons, as well as staged outbound cartons, Infoplus has developed a new record type known as Loads. Using Loads you’ll be able to:

• Track your pallet shipments (which can span multiple orders)
• Create and ship master cartons (also spanning multiple orders)
• Put away pallets, master cartons, and staged cartons into warehouse locations
• See full packing details through all of these shipment levels (and flow this data into EDI 856/ASN documents)

Loads in Infoplus are created and managed in the new Warehouse Loads Mobile Floor App:

The ability to use Loads has also been integrated into the Pack Station, where you can easily add a closed carton to a load, and into the Ship Station, where you can scan a load to ship it.

Packing Details Table

Along with the Loads feature, there is now a Packing Details table which gives you full visibility to how your orders are packed into your loads, and at all levels, including cartons, master cartons, and pallets. Using this table, you can know what items shipped in what packaging, and you can share that data with your customers and partners.

Read more about Loads on the knowledge base, or reach out to our support team if you have further questions.

GS1-128 Labels

Directly within Infoplus, you can now create GS1-128 Labels (aka UCC-128 labels), which may be required by your EDI partners and big-box retailers that you ship to.

• You can fully customize your GS1-128 Templates to meet the requirements of your partners, with even more power available through Infoplus scripts.
• GS1-128 Labels can be automatically generated when you run fulfillment, printed on-demand in the mobile floor apps, or produced in bulk actions within Infoplus.
• Labels that you’ve generated are attached to your orders, cartons, and loads, so you can reference them later or re-print if needed.

Learn how to get started with GS1-128 labels on the knowledge base, and let us know if you need more information.

Enhanced Rate Shopping

More flexibility and control has been brought to the Infoplus Rate Shopping feature so you can always ensure you get the best price on shipping and your items arrive on time.

• You can now tell Infoplus what carrier services to compare with rate shop “Carrier” options.
• Rate shop across multiple parcel accounts for the same carrier company (Ex: if you have 2 UPS accounts)
• Set up rate shopping carrier configurations with more advanced rules, rather than just always choosing the cheapest service.
• Ex: The “Fastest” rule, which will choose the fastest shipping option at the lowest price.
• Or, use an Infoplus Script to add your own custom logic to rate shopping.

To implement these new features, define your own Rate Shop Carrier options using the Carrier table and choosing a Company of “Rate Shop”. Then, select what services to rate shop when evaluating an order assigned to that Rate Shop Carrier, along with what Parcel Accounts to consider.

Please Note: Along with this change, the old Rate Shop Config table in Infoplus has been retired. The configurations that you previously had setup in that table have been automatically migrated to the new Rate Shop Carrier records.

Bonus Update

New Preview Fulfillment process

The new Preview Fulfillment process allows you to quickly evaluate a selection of orders to gain insight into various “what if” scenarios. Eg: you can select anywhere from one to 10,000 orders and discover what would happen if you tried to fulfill these orders right now.

The Preview Fulfillment process can answer questions such as:

• How many of the orders will be processed, and how many will back order?
• How much work will these orders create for my pickers?
• If there are going to be back orders, what SKUs are the ones out of stock?
• Would any orders fail to process due to unallocatable inventory (e.g., inventory in an LPN or a non-pickable location)?
• What SKUs (and in what quantities) will I need to fulfill these orders, after Kits and Substitutions are applied?

You can download a spreadsheet with all of the data generated by the Preview Fulfillment process, so you can manipulate and analyze the data so it works for you.

New Knowledge Base Articles

• An introduction to the Infoplus Light Manufacturing module is available in the article: Overview of Jobs
• Common issues you might run into when setting up a new LOB are described in: Troubleshooting a Line of Business in Infoplus
• You can read about Using an Infoplus Script to Create a Webhook
• Disable Duplicate Customer Order Numbers and SKUs describes how you can use the new Order Property and Order Property Override tables to control this behavior of Infoplus.

Full Change Log

• IPP-496 - Add Loads and GS1-128 Labels to Infoplus
• IPP-541 - Update Rate Shopping to support “fastest” rule, scripts, multiple parcel accounts, and user-defined carrier service options
• IPP-457 - Add new Preview Fulfillment process
• IPP-352 - Add Order Property and Order Property Override tables within Infoplus
• IPDESK-3474 - Corrected issues for new clients with Branding table
• IPDESK-3444 - Fixed situation where an order with multiple un-allocatable items could cause an error in fulfillment processing
• IPDESK-3484 - Corrected issue where Carton Type may not appear on some shipped orders
• IPDESK-3480 - Improved error handling with Magento 2 order imports
• IPDESK-3477 - Corrected situation where running an action on a Pending order could cause it to stay stuck in Pending status
• IPDESK-3475 - Fixed ability to set Ops Display SKU field on Item table through API
• IPDESK-3471 - Disabled LOB field on Warehouse bulk edit, as it did not have desired behavior
• IPDESK-3454 - Improvements to 3PL Billing import of freight invoice charge fields
• IPDESK-3442 - Better error message if an order doesn’t have an assigned parcel account
• IPDESK-3491 - Improved error message if running a Smart Filter that contains a disabled custom field
• IPDESK-3488 - Fixed intermittent errors creating Order Assembly Guides
• IPDESK-3460 - Improvements to releasing pick carts when used with Jobs
• IPDESK-3458 - Fixes in External Shipping System integration with ShipStation where order numbers from other systems could overlap
• IPDESK-3443 - Update to prevent creation of Cycle Counts for locations with items with Product Id Tags
• IPDESK-3487 - Corrected scenario where Mass Distributions could be stuck in Pending status
• IPDESK-3486 - Fixed situation where BigCommerce orders could be imported in incorrect statuses
• IPDESK-3436 - Fixed Warehouse Document Script feature
• IPDESK-3505 - Corrected scenario where fulfillment work could be cancelled when running Mass Distributions
• IPDESK-3504 - Add fulfillability and fulfillabilityDetails fields to order api endpoint
• IPDESK-3494 - Improve error messages for relative-date range queries that are missing parameters
• IPDESK-3490 - Corrections with end-of-segment terminators in inbound EDI processing
• IPDESK-3489 - Fixed commodityCode field in item api endpoint
• IPDESK-3462 - Corrected rounding errors in 3PL billing backup documentation files
• IPDESK-3516 - Add modify date field to Inventory Detail table
• IPDESK-3512 - Fixed sending shipment advice to Shopify for Ontrac carrier
• IPDESK-3506 - Bug fix when viewing user reports on-screen in-app if the report contains multiple columns with the same name