11.5 - May, 2024
Summary
We are releasing 4 new features this month and 14 changes/improvements to existing features in our systems.
A small minor release where we prepare some for our own Extend TA which will receive DHL in June and Bring in August. (Today there are Postnord, DB Schenker and Budbee)
Webinar / Video
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Release schedule
The release will be released to:
s02 - isntance
Tuesday at 22:00 GMT+1, May 21, 2024
All other instances (s01, s03, s04, s05, s06, s07 + WMS)
Wednesday at 22:00 GMT+1,May 22, 2024
ERP (Backend)
Updated allowed characters in an email on the order page
Area: | Requires support to activate? |
Order | No |
We have updated our register of allowed characters in email addresses to work according to the current standard. Nowadays, e.g. YYYY and some special characters in email addresses. The local part of the email address can use any of these ASCII characters: upper and lower case Latin letters A to Z and a to ö; the numbers 0 to 9; special character !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~; dot., provided that it is not the first or last character if not quoted, and also that it does not appear consecutively if not quoted (eg John..Doe@example.com is not allowed but "John. .Doe"@example. com is allowed); spaces and "(),:;<>@[\] characters are allowed with limitations (they are only allowed in single quotes, as described in the paragraph below, and in addition, a backslash or double quote must be preceded by a backslash); comments are allowed with parentheses at either end of the local part; for example john.smith(comment)@example.com and (comment)john.smith@example.com are both equivalent to john.smith@example.com. Please note that some accounting programs that Extend exports to do not allow these characters, in which case we delete these characters or replace them.
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How to access it? | |
Home → Orders → Create order |
Improvements and bug fixes
Reason codes per return order line could in some cases disappear if you updated the quantity on the order line.
The packaging collection, FTI, was discontinued at the turn of the year. In its place, Näringslivets Producentansvar, NPS, was formed, which came with new codes on packaging, e.g. 415 became 4150. We have updated our register against this. More attached here:
References on return invoices to Fortnox are corrected so that if referenceExternalOrderNumber is filled in, it ends up as "Your order number" in Fortnox. If it is blank, "referenceOrderNumber" ends up there instead. If both are blank, Extend's return order number ends up there.
Financial balance report included inactive products, this is now fixed by being able to select a filter "Include inactive products"
WMS
Merging partial deliveries in the WMS into a multi-pick
Area: | Requires support to activate? |
Picking | No |
On the order picking page in the WMS, we have added an additional "red button". This button is displayed if there are picking assignments with the same order number in the WMS. As a picker, you can then combine all picking assignments into a multi-pick. It can only be done if no one else has started the newly arrived picking task. It can also be done on an already existing multi-pack (i.e. fill the multi-pack with partial deliveries). The purpose of this is that if you are picking an order, and there are more picking assignments for the same order, you should be able to merge these and pick everything on that order at the same time. There are a few different reservation settings in the WMS which means that some orders cannot be added to the multiple pick, in which case you will receive a message about which orders did not go through. (Most often this is because the balance is not available at the pick-up location) | |
How to access it? | |
Main menu → Order picker |
Warehouse filter for replenishment of picking locations
Area: | Requires support to activate? |
Refill picking locations | No |
Warehouse locations in the WMS can be divided into different:
To make it easier for those who work with filling up pick-up locations, the "filler" can now choose their "area/aisle/shelf/class" that they are "responsible for". If a product needs to be replenished for a pick-up location, and the product is "buffered" in that area of responsibility, the "replenisher" will bring up that product in his list. So you only see the products that can be filled from the area/aisle/shelf/class that you have filtered. It is the pallet ID that according to FIFO/FEFO should be filled in, which is filtered out (if you have several pallets of the same product). That pallet ID is displayed at the top of the replenishment list after selecting a product. "Pick shortage" can also be sorted now, to replenish the most critical product first.
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How to access it? | |
Main menu → stock replenishment |
Aggregation of several orders in a multi-picking
Area: | Requires support to activate? |
Multipicking | No |
In a multi-pick, you usually pick several different orders for different end customers. In some cases, these orders must go to one and the same delivery address, and then you can now combine the entire multi-pick into one, so that it will be like picking 1 order. During picking, you can use picking packaging to keep track of what you put in each box / pallet. This allows us to notify the recipient that several different orders have been picked, how many pallets/packages are coming and what products+numbers are in each pallet/package. This is necessary if you are to send GS1-SSCC pallets where it is important which product is in which package/pallet. Otherwise, you can pick the multi-pick as usual and end the pick by combining all orders into one transport. Then there will be 1 shipment for all orders as well.
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How to access it? | |
Main menu → Assigned orders → Not started multiple pick → “Create aggregated pick and shipment” |
Improvements and bug fixes
Under the main menu & single order picker we have added a column called “SLA date”. This date can be agreed with your customers that you will have an order sent out on or similar and is determined in the business system.
New report called Deliveries and Moves by User. (May require a certain amount of activation) The report shows how many moves/inbounds receptions each user has made and how many units/pallets the user has moved on, per day.
When shipping to countries outside the EU, the recipient needs a VAT number & EORI number, this is now visible under "Recipient" when booking transport in the WMS.
Our own Budbee TA API has been adapted so that transport bookings do not take into account how full the locker is. Budbee manages this internally anyway.
We have corrected Postnord via Extend TA so that approval that you enter manually comes with it. Previously only 15 characters were allowed, now 35 characters are allowed.
The single pick page has a button called "Show also started". If you have zone pick activated on your inventory, this button was always active. Now it is never active, but you have to press it to see started orders.
Find identical orders - the page has a function so that you can start multi-picks from it. In some cases, you do not want to reserve the balance when you start the multiple collection, but do it continuously. Now you can choose manually whether you want to reserve the balance or not through a button called "Keep serial number open"
Postnord has introduced new rules regarding snus & tobacco regarding delivery to minors. We have adapted our own Postnord TA to support this.
If you enter more than 1 package on the multi-package page, we distribute the weight per package. (Applies to certain carriers that require detailed package information). Usually only the carrier requires the total weight of the shipment.
Upon delivery and on "Search product" you can choose to block the balance and enter a reason. We have added the reason "Customer reservation" temporarily and will possibly in the future open up for special customization of these reason codes per layer.
Extend webshop (b2b)
Improvements and bug fixes
Nothing this time