Implementing Trayless.
Introduction.
Trayless is used so that uncut, remoted edged orders and glazed supply frame orders can be entered without a tray. The orders can then be sent to the supplier and tray allocated when the lenses are sent from the supplier.
Settings.
In Tray Allocation, Set configured to true.In Trays / Skip tray on supply frame
Set configured to true.
Set Except on finished lens. This means that finished lenses still need a tray.
There is a special setting to allow trayless on certain customer for testing. These customers are flagged with ! as first character of Owner. This is intended for testing purposes only.
Processing.
When order is entered and the option is configured then the following logic is applied.Tray is not needed except in these circumstances
Is the lens supplied from finished and finished lens need a tray.
The lens is not finished but the supplier in the ranges is set as SURF. This is to route these lenses to In House surfacing.
Sending to Supplier and reference.
Orders are sent to the supplier. The reference sent to the supplier can be controlled by the reference field in the ‘Send to Purchasing’ supplier configuration. There is a field called reference which defaults to {tray}-{order}.If a tray is connected to the order then the reference sent to the supplier is “tray”-“Annapurna job number”.
If a tray is not connected then the reference sent is “Annapurna Job number”.
The reference will be printed on the lens packet and it can be useful to have this set so as to easily guide on actions when the lenses are received.
If there is a need to know if the order is being supplied to the customer as uncut or remote edge then this can be achieved by putting {uncut} into the reference field ie
{uncut}{tray}-{order}
The uncut will be replaced with @ (or ~ if remote edged} so the reference will be like this
@400001 Uncut for order 4000001
1234-400002 Glazed Send in for order 400002, frame is in tray 1234
4000003 Glazed supply frame for 400003
