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Go to Maintain : System Information : Global Parameters
Click the Forms tab.
Under Packing Slips, change the pull-down for "Sort Items On Packing Slips By" to "Description."

However, you should have really put the product's Bin value into MOM's "Bin ID" field instead of at the beginning of the Description, and then sorted your Packing Slips by Bin ID.

Hi Chris-

Thanks for the suggestions. We already had that option selected, and we do have our bins assigned in Bin ID. But the bin value doesn't print on the packing slips, so the Bin was put into the beginning of the description field for an easy fix. Having the bin as part of the desctription seemed to make a few other things in Mom a little easier, too, so that's what they did.

The options in Global Parameters have all been explored. Even though we had those options selected, our packing slips still would not sort the way we want. They do sort the individual items on one packing slip, but we want all of the packing slips sorted - the entire stack, and not just the items within a given packing slip. The majority of our orders are one item on a packing slip. Packing slips with more than one item can be sorted in at the beginning or end of the print job, or just printed separately.

I am all ears if there is a better way to do this. Right now, though, we only print the packing slips. We pick from the packing slips, and then the packing slip and the items are packed and out they go.

I am starting to think the answer lies in using the actual pick slips that were probably designed to sort this way from the beginning - it makes sense. I just don't want to change the whole exisitng process if we can merely get the packing slips to play along and sort nicely.

Thanks.