Inbound warehouse processes

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Overview

This area covers how items come into a warehouse and reach their bins. The right path depends on warehouse complexity. Basic configurations use inventory put-away documents. Advanced configurations use warehouse receipts and warehouse put-away documents, with directed put-away and pick. The pages fit together as concept, how-to and walkthrough. “Design Details - Inbound Warehouse Flow” explains the four receipt and put-away methods and is a good place to start. “Receive items” covers warehouse receipts and how they are created from source documents. Two how-to pages cover putting away, one for inventory put-aways and one for warehouse put-aways. Two walkthroughs, one basic and one advanced, show the full receive and put-away cycle. Supporting pages cover cross-docking, which moves items through cross-dock bins and zones without full storage, and how to find the warehouse assignments given to a user.

Key points

• Four methods exist for receiving and putting away items, chosen by warehouse configuration complexity.
• Warehouse receipts can be created by push or pull from source documents such as purchase orders, using Get Source Documents and filters.
• Receipt pages cover Qty. to Receive, Over-Receipt Quantity and zone and bin code assignment.
• Inventory put-aways serve basic configurations and can be created from source documents, by batch job, or manually after releasing a source document.
• Warehouse put-aways serve advanced configurations and are created from warehouse receipts or the put-away worksheet, using put-away templates, bin ranking and a breakbulk filter.
• Cross-docking uses cross-dock bins and zones, with settings such as Use Cross-Docking, Calculate Cross-Dock, Cross-Dock Due Date Calc. and Qty. to Cross-Dock.
• Warehouse assignments can be found from item cards or from put-away, pick and movement pages, filtered by location and assigned user ID.
• Separate basic and advanced walkthroughs cover default and fixed bins, bin content setup, receiving bins and split put-away lines.

Learn pages

• Cross-Dock Items: Learn how to receive and ship items without putting them in storage.
• Design Details - Inbound Warehouse Flow: Learn how to receive items at your warehouse, and register and match them to inbound source documents.
• Find Your Warehouse Assignments: This topic explains how to find the warehouse assignments assigned to you on the Item Card page when instructions have been created for you.
• How to Put Items Away with Inventory Put-aways: Learn how to use inventory put-away documents to record and post put-away and receipt information.
• How to put items away with warehouse put-aways: Learn about the different ways to use warehouse put-aways to put away received items.
• Receive items: This article is an overview of the different ways to receive items at a warehouse with a warehouse receipt.
• Receiving and Putting Away in Advanced Warehousing: The inbound processes for receiving and putting away can be performed in four ways using different functionalities depending on the warehouse complexity level.
• Walkthrough - Receive and put away in basic warehouse configurations: Learn about the different ways to handle inbound processes for receiving and putting away.

Videos, posts and code changes

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• #10125 [Extensibility Request] issue 30395: expose production pick grouping number (code change): “New event enables extensions to modify the warehouse pick grouping number”

Business Central pages and reports

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• Page 15 “Location List” · captioned “Locations” · on Table 14 “Location”
• Page 5703 “Location Card” · on Table 14 “Location”
• Page 5768 “Warehouse Receipt” · on Table 7316 “Warehouse Receipt Header”
• Page 7302 “Bins” · on Table 7354 “Bin”
• Page 7330 “Posted Whse. Receipt” · on Table 7318 “Posted Whse. Receipt Header”
• Page 7332 “Warehouse Receipts” · on Table 7316 “Warehouse Receipt Header”
• Page 7333 “Posted Whse. Receipt List” · captioned “Posted Warehouse Receipts” · on Table 7318 “Posted Whse. Receipt Header”
• Page 7342 “Whse. Receipt Lines” · on Table 7317 “Warehouse Receipt Line”
• Page 7363 “Posted Whse. Receipt Lines” · on Table 7319 “Posted Whse. Receipt Line”
• Page 8510 “Over-Receipt Codes” · on Table 8510 “Over-Receipt Code”
• Page 9000 “Whse. WMS Role Center” · captioned “Shipping and Receiving - Warehouse Management System”
• Page 9008 “Whse. Basic Role Center” · captioned “Inventory Manager”

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