Loading - The Load List
In the Load List you can select the type, sequence and quantity of Products that are to be loaded for this particular Load. Cube-IQ will Load as much Product volume as possible given which Containers are available.
The Load List grid also shows (in the # Loaded column) how many of each Product have been loaded (in total, over all loaded Containers).
The grid has a pop-up menu if you right click anywhere in the grid. The items in this menu are:
Remove Product from List - Select this menu item to remove the current line from the Load list. Tip: To remove a whole row from any grid, click anywhere in that row, and use Ctrl+Delete.
Collate - combines lines that have the same Product with the same sequence number and group into a single Load List line.
---
Show Load List actions - toggles whether Load List Actions are visible or not.
Undo Sorting - you can sort the grid on each column by clicking the column header. Selecting this item will undo any sorting.
---
Reset Load List Grid - reset the grid to its original setup (visible columns, column sequence, column width, etc)
Clear Load List - removes all Lines from the Load List grid.
Archive Load - archives the Load (see Archiving for details).
---
Set quantities to loaded - copy the values of the Loaded column into the Quantity column.
Increase/decrease all quantities - allows the user to increase/decrease all Product quantities by some percentage (to be chosen).
The sequence number field can be used for two purposes:
1. To indicate which Products should be loaded first, second, third etc., in a LIFO fashion. If the order of loading is not important, leave this value as '1' for all Products. The sequence can be based on a picking order sequence, or on a drop shipment sequence, or on an LTL sequence etc. How the sequence is applied over the Containers is set in Options.
2. To trigger Spread-out loading: if you have a multi-Container loading case, you can let the system spread certain Products over multiple Containers by giving them a sequence number of 0. For example, if you order 1000 cups and 1000 saucers, you may not want all cups to go in one Container, and all saucers to go a different one. If one Container gets lost, you may be left with 1000 cups without saucers. A sequence number of '0' will let Cube-IQ (more or less) spread the quantities over several Containers.
After selecting the Products, set the quantities to be loaded.
To remove a complete Product row from the grid, click on the far left of the grid to highlight the line you wish to delete, then press Ctrl+Del (or use the pop-up menu). You can also use the pop-up menu as described above.