Messages
Warehouse staff can use the RF device to receive messages sent to warehouse staff from QAD Warehousing users. Information in the messages and notifications can help warehouse staff:
• Avoid or resolve warehouse issues.
• Increase warehouse productivity.
• Eliminate time-consuming communication that occurs during decision making by speeding reaction time.
• Send either a message or instruction to a given user or notification, warning of a potential issue.
Staff send messages from system terminals, using the Messaging Menu (4.22) in QAD Warehousing. The target message recipient can be valid QAD EE users on a single RF device or a group of RF devices. RF devices receive the messages and return a receipt notification of the message; however, RF users cannot send messages to QAD Warehousing. Once the system sends a message, the RF device displays a blinking or beeping asterisk in the right upper corner. This indicates that there is one message to read. The RF user can then use the F11 function key to read the message. Once the message is read, RF users mark the message as read. QAD Warehousing users on a system terminal can then verify that the message was read.
Target messages sent to RF devices are defined by the following:
• Unique QAD user as defined in User Maintenance (36.3.1)
• User group as defined in Warehouse Group Maintenance (4.11.3.5)
The system retains the messages for later review.