Printing labels with barcode for work-order in sage X3 manufacturing process

By | January 21, 2021

Applying labels to your manufactured inventory is the first step in automating your warehouse and improving the overall traceability of your stock. Sage X3 provides the features of printing label for work order for production tracking etc. which will help manufacturing business to improve their stock traceability. In this blog we will see how to print the label for created work order.

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As we all know that Work order is an order to make one or more products. Conventionally, the work order uses a bill of materials (BOM) to create a list of materials to be issued, and a routing to make a list of operations to be performed on work centers. Sometimes as per the business requirement there is necessary to trace the labeling of the product before production tracking so, let see how to print the label for work order.

There are two types of report are present in report dictionary to print the label i.e. one is ETIQPROD which is called as Manufacturing label and another is ETIQ01 which is called as Demonstration Label.

To check the report you can navigate to Development >> Script Dictionary >> Report.

Now to print the label for the created work order, we need to set the stock label format in to the respective product. You can see in below screenshot. Here we have selected product “SFI009” which we will use further in to work order. To set the STK Label format follow below navigation.

Go Product screen >> Open any product >> go to the Unit Of Measure Tab>> check the field “STK Label Format.

Here you can select the format as “ETIQ01” which is demonstration label. Save the product with changes.

Now we will create the work order using the same product. To create the work order navigate to below path.

Manufacturing >> Planning >> Work order screen. Select the Planning site, Production site and other mandatory details >> Then select the same product for which you have set the Stock label format and click on create to create the Work order. Once you have created the work order just click on action button at the right top. Go to Report section and click on labels.

System will open the Print label screen once you click on label option. The screen will be populated with auto loaded values from the work order. To print the label for the product follow below steps:

  • Go to line level>> select label format as “ETIQPROD”
  • Select the Destination
  • Also check the server is properly populated in the field. If not then set default destination from the destination screen so while printing the label system will take the default print server which is set for the folder.
  • Click on Print button to generate the label.

Label will be generate with the barcode and other product information such as Product code, Product description, Stock Unit, work order number and quantity.

This is how you can generate or print the label for work order and before production traction in manufacturing module of sage X3.

This is how you can generate or print the label for work order and before production traction in manufacturing module of sage X3.