Warehouse staff use the RF to inform the system that tasks are complete. This process is called movement confirmation.

Warehouse staff can confirm that tasks are completed through the RF. To confirm tasks, ensure the steps listed in Confirmation Setup are completed.

You use Task Assignment Maintenance (4.11.1.9) to define tasks for the warehouse staff. You define the queue; the tasks within a queue; the sequence number of the task within the queue; and whether confirmation of the task is automatic, manual, or timed.

See Assigning Resources to Tasks.

When you set Confirmation Mode to AUTO, the system updates inventory, quantities on hand, detail allocations, and so on, immediately after warehouse staff confirm the task. The RF may pause until it completes the update and warehouse staff cannot control the RF during the pause. If warehouse staff want to control the RF at all times, set the Confirmation Mode to MANUAL. The system completes the remaining updates when you manually instruct the engine processor to do so in the Engine Menu (4.7).

See Confirmation Mode.

Users confirm movement on the RF through the Next Task option in the WORK menu.

Some warehouse maintenance programs, such as Internal Routing Maintenance (4.2.5), contain confirmation option fields. Confirmation options define which values can be changed during confirmation and the action resulting from any permitted change. For example, you can specify confirmation options that let a user enter a different location when a task instructs the user to go to a specific location and whether the user receives a warning when he enters the location change or must confirm the location change. In most cases, you set the options so that RF users cannot make changes during confirmation.

Some of the options provide a static outcome; for example, always blank the reference. These options are calculated and performed when the transaction is created. This improves performance and stability since the correct inventory is referenced throughout the life cycle of the transaction.

The Allow Task Switching field in Work Location Group Maintenance (4.3.9) plays an important role when you set confirmation option fields. If you set this field to Yes, you allow RF users to switch to another task when they enter confirmation option values that are different than the expected one.

See Allow Task Switching.

If you set Allow Task Switching to No, the user cannot switch to another task. This can cause problems if the task is a requirement to satisfy an order. Each pick task is linked to a specific order and each order is associated with a specific detail allocation. If users change a value, the system assumes that the changed value is for the current task and confirms the task. This affects the detail allocation and picked quantities available for an order and can cause errors.

Providing a stage for a location means that a task must be confirmed more than once before it is considered closed. A staged location is one that is not directly accessed. Instead, inventory coming in or going out of the location is placed on a temporary stage prior to the inventory movement. This type of environment is frequently used when fork-lift hand-offs must be performed, or when inventory is being taken out of, or placed into, an automated storage area.

The Stage In and Stage Out fields in Warehouse Location Maintenance (4.3.13) identify whether a location is staged. If both fields are blank, the location is not staged.

See Stage (In) and Stage (Out).

Similarly, a location with a must have tasks moving stock into it confirmed twice:

If a transaction moves inventory from a location with a Stage Out to a location with a Stage In, the task has to be confirmed three times:

As a task is being confirmed, the system updates the status. This is largely invisible to the RF user but is included here as technical information. The status flow is listed in Transaction Status Flow.