A warehouse that stores products of a similar nature or requirements in particular areas, such as a cool room, industrial area etc would make use of Zones in ACR to sub-group a stock area. In a situation where you would want to designate particular zones to be treated separately from others you would use Amalgamation.
There are 3 different ways that ACR can organise and generate picking slips and invoices when Zones are used.
- Individual picking slips with products from individual zones that amalgamate to a single invoice.
- Individual picking slips with products from individual zones that do not amalgamate and creates individual invoices.
- A Combination of methods 1 and 2, where the individual zones are configured in the system to amalgamate or not.
The configuration for Zones is found in Zones Maintenance
Amalgamation is located in Zones Maintenance with the options of “A” and “B”. These tick boxes allow for the ability to amalgamate zones into two separate invoices as well as allow zones to split off into their own invoice.
As an example
If the Zones are setup as the following
- Zone 1 – A is selected
- Zone 2 – A is selected
- Zone 3 – Both are unselected
- Zone 4 – B is selected
- Zone 5 – B is selected
If a customer order was to be created that has products from all 5 zones the final result will be three invoices printed.
- The 1st invoice will contain all products from Zones 1 and 2 together.
- The 2nd invoice will contain all products from Zone 3 only.
- The 3rd invoice will contain products from Zones 4 and 5 together.