Oracle R12 - Mobile Warehouse Management System (MWA) Personalization

Oracle Warehouse Management System
MWA Personalization
Release 12.1.1
White Paper
Feb 25 2009
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Main Objectives:
The main objective of this document is to show basic setups required for mobile personalization
(Release 12.1.1) and has examples of some flows that will give any user a head start in using
the functionality.
Primary Author: John Changaramangalam
The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. If you find any
problems in the documentation, please report them by e-mailing
john.chankaramangalam@oracle.com.
Special Thanks to Harry Herman (Support), Bhanu (Development), Bunnei Cheng (Program
Management) , Support team & Development team.
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Table of Contents
Overview Of Mobile Personalization ....................................................................................................... 4
Mobile Personalization:......................................................................................................................... 5
Mobile Personalization Prerequisites: ..................................................................................................... 6
Personalization For Mobile PO Receipt Page:........................................................................................ 8
Personalization For Mobile PO Information Page: ................................................................................ 18
De-Activation of Personalization For Mobile PO Receipt and Information page: ................................. 22
Mobile Personalization For Move Any LPN page:................................................................................. 28
Mobile Personalization for Move Any LPN Select Items page:.......................................................... 34
Mobile Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load: ...................................................................... 39
Mobile Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load Select Contents: ........................................ 42
Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS Manual Picking:............................................................. 46
Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS Drop Loaded LPNs: ...................................................... 54
Personalization for Mobile LPN Ship:.................................................................................................... 63
Personalization for Mobile LPN Ship Ship Confirm:........................................................................... 71
Personalization for Mobile WMS Update LPN: ..................................................................................... 78
Debugging Issues: ................................................................................................................................. 83
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Mobile Personalization
Overview Of Mobile Personalization
Mobile personalization enables you to customize Oracle Warehouse Management pages without making
code changes. You can hide fields and provide default field values to reduce the amount of information a
user must enter on a page. These changes reduce the number of scans and improve overall efficiency
and execution. You can also set additional fields as required if these fields are essential to your business.
With mobile personalization you can:
Hide fields and buttons
Provide default field values
Copy the value of a field to another field
Set editable fields as read only
Set non-required fields as required.
Personalization can be controlled at multiple levels:
Users will be allowed to customize the mobile pages and hence their experience while transaction
execution at various levels that should include Function, Organization, Responsibility and User. The
customizations done at a Function level will be reflected across the instance and will be experienced by
all the users of the system. All the users in a particular organization will experience the customizations
done at an Organization level. The customizations done at a Responsibility level will be experienced by
all the users of that responsibility. The customizations done at a User level will be experienced only by
that user.
Available for most common Oracle Warehouse Management transactions:
Inbound
Receipt, Putaway, Load and Drop
Outbound
Pick Load, Drop, and Ship Confirm
Personalization is supported for the following pages:
1. Mobile PO Receipt page
2. Mobile PO Receipt Information Page
3. Putaway Drop Page
4. Item Load Page
5. Move Any LPN page
6. Manual Load Page
7. Update LPN Page
8. Pick Load Page
9. Pick Drop Page
10. LPN Ship Page
11. Mobile Ship Confirm Page
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Mobile Personalization:
Step
PreReqs
Mobile Personalization
Prerequisites
PPER
PPER 1
PPER 2
PPER 3
Mobile Personalization Profile Setups

Personalization For Mobile PO Receipt page
Personalization For Mobile PO Information
De-Activation of Personalization For Mobile PO
Receipt and Information page
Personalization for Move Any LPN page using
Descriptive Flexfield.
Personalization for Move Any LPN Select Items
page
Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load
Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load
Select Contents
Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS
Manual Picking
Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS Drop
Loaded LPNs
Personalization for Mobile LPN Ship
Personalization for Mobile LPN Ship Ship
Confirm
Personalization for Mobile WMS Update LPN
Debugging Issues
PPER 4
PPER 5
PPER 6
PPER 7
PPER 8
PPER 9
PPER 10
PPER 11
PPER 12
Setup
Required
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WMS should be
setup up.
Mobile Personalization Prerequisites:

PREREQS
Prerequisites
Required
Complete all WMS setups.

PPER
Mobile Personalization Profile Setups
Responsibility: System Administration

Profile System
Navigation:
MWA: Cache Personalized Metadata (Controls whether or not you need to bounce the MWA server)
If you set the profile option MWA: Cache Personalized Metadata to Yes, then you must bounce the
mobile server for personalization to take effect. Caching is recommended in a production environment to
enhance performance.
Profile Value
No
Yes
Description
You do not need to bounce the MWA server
You need to bounce the MWA server for personalization
MWA: Enable Personalization (Controls whether personalization is enabled)

MWA Enable Personalization controls whether or not personalization is enabled for the user.
Profile Value
No
Yes
Description
Personalization is not enabled
Personalization is enabled
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We have set the following for user CJOHNP

MWA: Cache Personalized Metadata No
MWA: Enable Personalization Yes
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Personalization For Mobile PO Receipt Page:

PPER 1
Personalization For Mobile PO Receipt page
Responsibility: Warehouse Manager

Business Approach:
In this example we will show how MWA personalization can be done for PO receipt page. We will change
the LPN prompt to Pallet No. and make it a required field. We will default subinventory name RCV in
To Sub field. We will also change the name of prompt on button Next Item to More Items.
Navigation:
Setup MWA Personalization Framework
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We search by Mobile%. We see all the pages listed. We select Mobile PO Receipt page.
Then we select the Personalize button.
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We select Edit for LPN field.
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You can modify the following:

Prompt: Changes the field or button prompt
Copy From: Adds the value of a field by copying the value on the same page.
Default Value: Adds a fixed value to a mobile page.
You can set an editable field as read only if:
The field is not required.
The field is required, but you provide a default value.
You can hide any field on a page if:
The field is not required.
The field is required, but you provide a default value.
The field is a display only field
In the above screen we change the prompt from LPN to Pallet No.
We also set required from No to Yes.
Once done we select Apply button to finish.
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Now we see that personalized Level Function is checked for LPN field.
We default the subinventory name RCV for To Sub field in Default Value function. We also make the
field read-only by setting the read-only function to True.
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Now we see that Personalized level Function for To Sub is checked.
Now we change the Next Item button prompt to More Items.
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Prompt for Next Item changed to More Items.
You will see that the Personalized Level Function for button Next Item is checked.
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Now we see that the personalization for Mobile PO Receipt is checked i.e. made Active.
Setup Material Setup Items Master Items
Navigation:
We create item testitem and assign it to W1 organization.
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Responsibility: Purchasing Super User

Navigation:
Purchase Orders Purchase Orders
We create Purchase Order # 5900 for item testitem and quantity 10.
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Responsibility:Whse Mgmt
Navigation:
Inbound Receipt PO
Now we log into mobile. We do a PO receipt. (Above is the screen that shows fields without
personalization activated. Below is the screen that shows with personalization activated.)
You will see the LPN prompt is changed to Pallet No. In To Sub filed RCV gets defaulted and it is not
editable. The Next Item button prompt shows More Items.
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Personalization For Mobile PO Information Page:

PPER 2
Personalization For Mobile PO Information

Business Approach:
In this example we will show how MWA personalization can be done for Mobile PO Receipt Information
page. We will hide Cancel button on the Mobile PO Receipt Information page.
Navigation:
We select Mobile PO Receipt Information.
We select the Cancel button personalization field properties. We change the rendered to False so that the
button is not displayed.
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Now we see that Personalized Level Function for button Cancel is checked.
Now Mobile PO Receipt Information page for personalization is made active.
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Responsibility: Purchasing Super User

Navigation:
Purchase Orders Purchase Orders
Created Purchase Order # 5908 for item testitem quantity 10.

Below is the screen shot of PO Receipt information page before MWA personalization for the page was
activated. You can see the Cancel button.
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Navigation:
Inbound Receipt PO
User can navigate to PO Receipt Information page if Done button is clicked on PO Receipt page.
Now you see the Cancel button is hidden when the personalization was activated.
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De-Activation of Personalization For Mobile PO Receipt and Information page:

PPER 3
De-Activation of Personalization For Mobile PO

Receipt and Information page

Business Approach:
In this example we will show how to de-active specific Mobile pages. In our example we will deactivate
PO Receipt page and Information page.
Navigation:
We select Mobile PO Receipt page.
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Now we select function and then select the Deactivate button.
You will see the message Function level personalization to Mobile PO Receipt deactivated successfully.
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Navigation:
Inbound Receipt PO
Below is the screen shot of the how the page looked when personalization was active.
Below is the screen shot of the Mobile PO Receipt page after personalization was deactivated. Now you
see all the standard field prompt names. Also you can see that To Sub filed is now enterable and
subinventory name RCV is not defaulted.
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Now we deactivate personalization for Mobile PO Receipt Information page.
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Note: That the function name for Mobile PO Receipt Information page shows name Mobile PO receipt.
We deactivate the function. You will see the message Function level personalization for Mobile PO
Receipt deactivated successfully.
Below is how the screen looks before deactivation. The Cancel button is hidden.
Now after deactivation you see the Cancel Button.
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Mobile Personalization For Move Any LPN page:

PPER 4 Personalization for Move Any LPN page using
Descriptive Flexfield
Business Approach:
In this example we will show how to personalize Mobile WMS Move Any LPN page and also activating
LPN DFF.
Setup Material Setup Flexfields Descriptive Segment
Navigation:
We query the descriptive flexfield WMS License Plate Numbers. We define new context LPN
Dimensions.
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Defined 3 attributes Length, Width and Height.

Navigation:
We select Mobile WMS Move Any LPN page.
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We select Personalize.
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We select DFF for Into LPN.
We rename the prompt Into LPN DFF to Dimensions.

We make rendered True and Display Inline True.
You can choose to enable users to update the descriptive flexfield, or display it as a read-only field on the
mobile page. How the field appears, depends on the choices you select in the Personalization Field
Properties page. To personalize descriptive flexfields on mobile pages, follow the procedure for
personalizing mobile pages. The personalization options for descriptive
flexfields are:
Display Inline: If you set the field to yes, then the descriptive flexfields are displayed on the same page. If
you set the field to no, then the user enters the descriptive flexfield values on a separate page.
Default Context: If you set the field to yes, then the user can enter a default context for the descriptive
flexfield.
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We activate personalization for the mobile page.
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Navigation:
Tasks Directed Tasks Directed Move Move Any LPN
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Mobile Personalization for Move Any LPN Select Items page:

PPER 5 Personalization for Move Any LPN Select Items
page
Business Approach:
We modify Drop Page (Move Any LPN Select Items page). We try to copy the quantity from Qty field
into Confirm field.
System Administrator Application Function
Navigation:
If the form function parameter SUGGESTION is set to LINES for the function Mobile WMS Move Any LPN
then user will be able to navigate to Putaway Drop Page.
ATTACHMENT_DISPLAY_MODE=NEVER PAGE_TYPE= SYSTEM_DROP DROP_INTO_LPN=YES
DROP_FULL_LPN=YES DROP_TRANSFER_CONTENTS=YES
We change the above to the following:
ATTACHMENT_DISPLAY_MODE=NEVER PAGE_TYPE= SYSTEM_DROP DROP_INTO_LPN=YES
DROP_FULL_LPN=YES DROP_TRANSFER_CONTENTS=YES SUGGESTION= LINES
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Navigation:
Now we select page Mobile WMS Move Any LPN (Select Item)
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We select prompt Copy From and in the list of values we select Qty.
We select Qty from the list of values from copy from.
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Now we activate the personalization.
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Navigation:
Tasks Directed Tasks Directed Move Move Any LPN
You will see that quantity 10 in Confirm field getting inherited from Qty field.
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Mobile Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load:

PPER 6 Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load
Business Approach:
We modify WMS Inbound Manual Load and make the Into LPN field required.
Navigation:
We select Mobile WMS Inbound Manual Load.
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We select field Into LPN and select required.
Now we activate the function.
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Navigation:
Tasks Manual Tasks Manual load
We now see we cannot tab from the Into LPN field unless we enter a lpn number.
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Mobile Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load Select Contents:

PPER 7 Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load
Select Contents
Business Approach:
We modify WMS Inbound Manual Load Select Contents and change the load/drop button prompt to
Complete Putaway.
Navigation:
Changing Prompt on Load/drop button to Complete Putaway

Make sure you add to function WMS_IN_MANLD_MOB (Mobile WMS Inbound Manual Load) form
parameter (LOAD_DROP=YES DROP_FULL_LPN=YES)
It will look like this.
ATTACHMENT_DISPLAY_MODE=NEVER PAGE_TYPE= MANUAL_LOAD LOAD_INTO_LPN=YES
LOAD_FULL_LPN=YES LOAD_CONTENTS=YES LOAD_TRANSFER_CONTENTS=YES
SERIALLY_COUNTED=NO SERIAL_TYPE=RANGE LOAD_DROP=YES DROP_FULL_LPN=YES
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We change the button prompt from Load and Drop to Complete Putaway.
We now activate the function.
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Navigation:
Tasks Manual Tasks Manual load
Once in Manual Load page one can select Select Contents and then one sees the Load And Drop now
shows prompt Complete Putaway.
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Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS Manual Picking:

PPER 8 Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS Manual
Picking
Business Approach:
We modify Mobile Pick Load Mobile WMS Manual Picking and make transfer lpn (Xfer LPN) field
required.
Navigation:
We select Mobile Pick Load Mobile WMS Manual Picking.
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We select Xfer LPN field and change it to required Yes.
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We Activate the personalization for this page.

Responsibility: Manufacturing And Distribution Manager
Navigation:
Order Management Orders, Returns Order Organizer
We create sales order 65080 for testitem quantity 10.
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Navigation:
Order Management Shipping Release Sales Orders Release Sales Orders
We run pick release.
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Pick release output.
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Navigation:
Inquiry Warehouse Control Board
We select the transaction number, which is the pick id.

Tasks Manual Tasks Paper Based Pick
Navigation:
We go to the load page. You will see that now the Xfer LPN field is required.
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Enter the transfer LPN and then load and drop the lpn.
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Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS Drop Loaded LPNs:

PPER 9 Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS Drop
Loaded LPNs
Business Approach:
We modify WMS Drop Loaded LPNs such that we default to subinventory to 'STA' and to locator to
'L1.1.1' . Also we make these field's read only so that user does not have to enter values thus reducing
keystrokes. For confirm subinventory we copy the value from To Sub field. For confirm locator we copy
the value from To Loc field.

Navigation:
We select Mobile Pick Drop Mobile WMS Drop Loaded LPNs.
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We select To Sub and default STA.
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We select To Loc and default L1.1.1.
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For confirm subinventory we copy the value from To Sub field.
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For confirm locator we copy value from To Loc.
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Navigation:
Create sales order 65096 for item testitem quantity 10.
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Navigation:
Now we run pick release for the order 65096.
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Pick release output.

Inquiry Warehouse Control Board
Navigation:
We now select the transaction number, which becomes the pick id.
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Navigation:
Enter pick id and then select load and drop option.
When you go to drop screen you see staging subinventory STA and staging locator L1.1.1 being
defaulted.
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Personalization for Mobile LPN Ship:

PPER 10 Personalization for Mobile LPN Ship
Business Approach:
We modify LPN Ship page to default dock door D1.1.1.
Navigation:
We select Mobile LPN Ship.
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In the default value field for dock door we put value D1.1.1 so that user does not have to select it.
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We activate personalization for this page.
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Navigation:
We create sales order 65261 for item testitem and quantity 10.
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Navigation:
We run pick release.
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Above is the pick release output.

Navigation:
We load the LPN and then drop it to staging.
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Outbound Shipping LPN Ship
Navigation:
Now we see dock door defaulted to D1.1.1.
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We load the LPN and ship it.
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Personalization for Mobile LPN Ship Ship Confirm:

PPER 11 Personalization for Mobile LPN Ship Ship Confirm
Business Approach:
We modify LPN Ship Ship Confirm page to make field 'Weight' to rendered 'False' so that it is not
displayed.
Navigation:
We select Mobile LPN Ship Ship Confirm.
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We make rendered False for the weight field.
Now we activate personalization.
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Navigation:
We create sales order 65262 for item testitem for quantity 10.
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Navigation:
We now run pick release.
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Navigation:
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We load and drop the LPN in staging.

Navigation:
Outbound Shipping LPN Ship
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The above screen shows the weight field before personalization was activated.
The below screen shows that the weight field is hidden after personalization is activated.
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Personalization for Mobile WMS Update LPN:

PPER 11 Personalization for Mobile WMS Update LPN
Business Approach:
We modify WMS Update LPN page and default LB in Weight UOM field.
Navigation:
We select Mobile WMS Update LPN.
In Wt UOM field we default LB.
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We activate the personalization for Update LPN.
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Navigation:
Inquiry Material Workbench
For lpn LPN194 we see no weight when we check through material work bench by selecting attributes
button.
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Navigation:
Warehousing LPN Transactions LPN Update
We query lpn LPN194. We enter weight 200. Wt UOM defaults to LB.
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Now we go back to material workbench and we see weight UOM LB and weight 200.
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Debugging Issues :
The following are the requirements from support for logging a tar.
Screen shots of the issue along with a good scenario.
Set profile options
select value from v$parameter where name = 'utl_file_dir';>
INV: Debug Trace = YES
INV: Debug File = [directory value from above query]/logfilename.log (make sure that you have
write permission for this file and directory)]
INV: Debug Level = 9
1. set mwa.cfg to trace level. To do this go to the mwa server config file mwa.cfg, and
modify log level to trace
2. restart the mobile server and hit ctrl-X, see what directory is for the logging
3. perform the transaction again and get the following log files from that log directory
[port].INV.log
[port]WMS.log
[port].system.log
Inventory Debug log from the directory set in profile 'INV: Debug File
Reference :
Note 469339.1 Oracle WMS Personalization Framework
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Mobile Personalization Profile Setups

Mobile Personalization Prerequisites:

Complete all WMS setups.

Mobile Personalization Profile Setups

Responsibility: System Administration

MWA: Enable Personalization (Controls whether personalization is enabled)

We have set the following for user CJOHNP

Personalization For Mobile PO Receipt Page:

Personalization For Mobile PO Receipt page

Responsibility: Warehouse Manager

Setup MWA Personalization Framework

We select Edit for LPN field.

You can modify the following:

Now we see that Personalized level Function for To Sub is checked.

Now we change the Next Item button prompt to More Items.

Prompt for Next Item changed to More Items.

We create item testitem and assign it to W1 organization.

Responsibility: Purchasing Super User

Personalization For Mobile PO Information Page:

Personalization For Mobile PO Information

Responsibility: Warehouse Manager

Setup MWA Personalization Framework

We select Mobile PO Receipt Information.

Now Mobile PO Receipt Information page for personalization is made active.

Responsibility: Purchasing Super User

Created Purchase Order # 5908 for item testitem quantity 10.

De-Activation of Personalization For Mobile PO Receipt and Information page:

De-Activation of Personalization For Mobile PO

Responsibility: Warehouse Manager

Setup MWA Personalization Framework

We select Mobile PO Receipt page.

Now we select function and then select the Deactivate button.

Now we deactivate personalization for Mobile PO Receipt Information page.

Now after deactivation you see the Cancel Button.

Mobile Personalization For Move Any LPN page:

Defined 3 attributes Length, Width and Height.

Setup MWA Personalization Framework

We select Mobile WMS Move Any LPN page.

We select DFF for Into LPN.

We rename the prompt Into LPN DFF to Dimensions.

We activate personalization for the mobile page.

Mobile Personalization for Move Any LPN Select Items page:

Responsibility: Warehouse Manager

We select Qty from the list of values from copy from.

Now we activate the personalization.

Mobile Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load:

We select Mobile WMS Inbound Manual Load.

We select field Into LPN and select required.

Now we activate the function.

Mobile Personalization for WMS Inbound Manual Load Select Contents:

Changing Prompt on Load/drop button to Complete Putaway

Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS Manual Picking:

We select Mobile Pick Load Mobile WMS Manual Picking.

We select Xfer LPN field and change it to required Yes.

We Activate the personalization for this page.

We create sales order 65080 for testitem quantity 10.

Responsibility: Manufacturing And Distribution Manager

We run pick release.

Pick release output.

Responsibility: Warehouse Manager

We select the transaction number, which is the pick id.

Personalization for Pick Load Mobile WMS Drop Loaded LPNs:

Responsibility: Warehouse Manager