Preassigning Lot Numbers

You can preassign lot numbers for items when you create a purchase order, transfer order line, job, or co-job. Then when the PO or transfer order line is received, or the job completes, the system assigns one of the preassigned lot numbers to each item in the line or job.

To print preassigned lot labels so that you can have them ready to attach when the lots are created, use the Preassigned Lot Labels Report form.

If you are populating the data collection tables with transactions that use preassigned lot numbers:

• When you print a report for a specific type of DC transaction (for example, PO Receiving List), select the option to print preassigned lot numbers where appropriate.
• Use the document to scan (or manually enter) the preassigned lot numbers. At the time the DC transactions are entered, you can choose to enter a value other than the preassigned lot number.

Preassigned lot numbers are allocated and cannot be reused until the PO line, job or transfer order line status is set to Complete.