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Managing cardboard boxes in JTL-Wawi

Stand: JTL-Wawi Version 1.6.32.1

Your task/initial situation

You are using cardboard boxes and want to store them in JTL-Wawi in order to record data such as size, weight, and material and to keep track of how much packaging material has been used in a specific period. Furthermore, you would like to create a cardboard location in JTL-WMS for these cardboard boxes and assign it to your workstation in JTL-WMS.

Requirements/Restrictions

  • You have been given the user right to create both Categories and Items in JTL-Wawi.

Changing settings in JTL-Wawi

Creating cardboard boxes as items in JTL-Wawi

  1. Click on the Items icon to go to item management in JTL-Wawi and create a category in the category structure in which you want to manage the different types of cardboard boxes as items. Read more on the topic here.
  2. Create the different types of cardboard boxes as items in the created category. As usual, assign all data such as SKU, Item name, etc. Read more on the topic here.
  3. In the item master data, activate Inventory management for each cardboard item.
  1. In the item master data in the Other tab in the drop-down list, select the item type Cardboard.
  1. Save your cardboard item and close the item master data.

The cardboard box is now managed as a separate item in the item management of JTL-Wawi.

  1. Go to the menu Shipments > Shipping methods to open the dialogue box Editing custom and automatically created shipping methods.
  2. In the pane Custom shipping methods, select the desired shipping method, for example DHL package (up to 2kg).
  3. In the pane Cardboard box management for shipping method XY, you can view the types of cardboard boxes created as items. By activating the check boxes, select all cardboard box types that you want to link to the shipping method, for example cardboard box S.
  1. If you have activated the check box for more than one cardboard item, you also have the option to preselect a carboard item for the goods issue via the Standard button. For more information, please go here.
  2. The links between the carboard box and the shipping method are saved immediately by selecting the check boxes. Finish your configuration by clicking Close to exit the dialogue box.

If you now create a sales order for a customer and select a Shipping method, with which you have previously linked carboard box types, in the Details tab in the Shipments pane, the standard cardboard box is automatically selected. For more information on this topic, go here for section B.

Configuring cardboard boxes in JTL-WMS

You can now create a cardboard location in JTL-WMS for these cardboard boxes and assign it to your workstation in JTL-WMS. For more information on this topic click here: Configuring cardboard boxes in JTL-WMS.

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