Setting Gross Weight Tolerance Allowances for Receiving in Master Coils on RF Scanner Function 10

Here is the procedure and how the code is written:

1. EDI sends over ASN information and creates an ASN that displays in our ASN List Screen.

2. Coil is delivering to PSI.

3. Material Handler begins receiving the coil in on the RF Scanner using scanner Function 10,

4. At the screen where the material handler can enter the weight, the material handler can enter the Master Gross Weight.

5. When entering the weight on the scanner, the scanner program is coded to check against the ASN Master Coil Gross Weight.

6. On the scanner program only, if the entered Gross Weight does not fall within the allowed Master Gross Weight of the ASN tolerances set up in Choice Field 525, the scanner will display a message advising the Weight is out of tolerance and will ask you 1 time more time if you want to enter the weight. If you keep the same weight, the Master will go on Hold Code 26. If you re-enter the gross weight the 2nd time in tolerance it will receive in the coil on the scanner without putting it on hold.

7. On the scanner program, it checks Gross Weight of the ASN to the Gross Weight entered in on the scanner. If the ASN does not have a Gross Weight listed, it then looks at the Net Weight.

8. Curtis noticed on the Genesis Auto Receive and Manual Receive in Coils screen, the Genesis Program checks the Net Weight on the ASN and compares it against the gross weight entered in on the scanner.  Normally this is not an issue as it is steel coils and not much packaging on it to be outside of tolerance. It does cause an issue with aluminum coils that might come in on heavy skids, have lots of packaging and is wrapped on steel cores.

Currently, when an associate enters a Scale Weight in the scanner, we compare it to the ASN weight (gross if available, otherwise net) and check if the difference is within the allowable tolerance.

If the difference is outside the set tolerance, the associate can re-enter the weight in the scanner. If it still falls outside tolerance, the system places the coil on Hold Code 26 with the note:

The problem:
While the scanner uses gross weight first (if available) for the initial tolerance check, the downstream logic that determines whether to assign Hold Code 26 only uses the net weight. This means plants like Woodburn—recently switched to a 1% tolerance—are seeing coils placed on hold simply because the tare weight creates more than a 1% difference between gross and net.