License Plates Overview

License Plates Overview

In WithoutWire, a License Plate (LP) number is any object that holds items, such as a cart or pallet.  LPs are used to track where items are when they are in-between bin or site locations, such as when a user is picking and has not yet staged the order in a staging location.  Although LPs are associated with containers, they do not need to represent a physical entity, such as a box. Thus, you can define an LP as a collection of items. WithoutWire enables you to track, transact, and nest LPs.

You can do the following actions with License Plates:

Receive, store, and pick material by LP

View on-hand balances by LP

View LP contents

Use LPs to perform transactions

Print labels and reports for referencing container contents

Track nested LPs (for example, cartons on a pallet)

Pack, unpack, consolidate, split, and update LPs

Reuse empty LPs

Multi-level Nesting Support

WithoutWire enables you to nest LPs. For example, pallet LP5555 contains 2 nested LPs: LP5553 and LP5554. In the system, you would see LP5555 as the top-level LP, and each of the other LPs would fall under LP5555.  Viewing this LP would display BinLocation/LP5555/LP5554/LP5553.  To visualize what this looks like in the warehouse, picture LP5555 as a pallet within a bin location.  On that pallet are medium sized boxes (LP5544), and within those boxes are smaller cartons (LP5553).  This setup allows users to more accurately depict where inventory resides, and the quantity in each of the small boxes.  

Throughout the License Plates section of the Knowledgebase are several pages that have been created to help familiarize the user with License Plates and how they may be set up within the system. Explore that document section in the navigation or refer to the related articles.