What's New: Warehouse Management (2023 release wave 2)

Overview

The session covers warehouse changes in the 2023 release wave 2. It shows location card configuration, where purchase, sales, service and transfer operations have limited toggles while production, assembly and jobs have full drop-down options. It then shows how basic warehouse setups can use put-away templates, bin capacity policy, warehouse class, special equipment and bin ranking without directed pick and put-away.

The second half covers troubleshooting the “nothing to handle” error in directed pick and put-away mode. A short summary shows pickable quantity, blocked and dedicated bins, outstanding items in receive bins, and item tracking details such as blocked serial numbers. The session also explains how reservations reduce the quantity available for picking non-reserved orders, and how to resolve that.

Key points

• Location card: purchase, sales, service and transfer operations have limited toggles; production, assembly and jobs have full drop-down configuration.
• Put-away templates and bin ranking can now be used without directed pick and put-away; special equipment, bin capacity policy and warehouse class already became available to basic warehouse in the previous release.
• Inventory put-away now supports over-receipt, alongside the existing warehouse receipt option.
• Picks can follow bin ranking, taking first from the highest-ranked bin regardless of bin code; this works in both warehouse picks and inventory picks.
• Filtering inventory pick creation from jobs by job task line or date was added in the previous release and was shown here only for context.
• The nothing-to-handle summary and troubleshooting window work only in directed put-away and pick mode; they show pickable quantity, blocked or dedicated bins and blocked serial numbers.
• Shipable quantity excludes shipment bins and dedicated bins; the delta after subtracting reservations is what non-reserved orders can pick. To release more, reserve the sales order or cancel reservations, then rerun pick creation.

Features

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• table 14 “Location” at 1:11
• page 7375 “Inventory Put-away” at 3:21
• page 7335 “Warehouse Shipment” at 6:18
• page 5779 “Warehouse Pick” at 6:49
• page 7377 “Inventory Pick” at 7:52
• table 7302 “Bin Content” at 4:53

Quotes

• 1:23 “now they are limited only to purchase sales, service, and transfer operations, while internal operations such as production, assembly, and jobs got all configuration”
• 2:35 “You don’t need to use directed pick and put away to benefit from special equipment, bin capacity policy, or warehouse class”
• 3:50 “each item is using, configured to use different put away templates. And I decided to use standard template for item number one.”
• 5:45 “over received quantity is now also available in the inventory put away in addition to the house receives before”
• 7:25 “system proposed to do picking accordingly. First, from bin with the highest trend regardless of its code, then the next one”
• 11:38 “It also identifies you that it’s only for directed put away and pick mode. So, do not try it on other configurations.”
• 12:22 “pickable quantity is zero. In the advanced workhouse with directed put away and pick the workhouse is split into different zones”
• 13:34 “Before it was more complicated to troubleshoot now it is shorter”
• 15:50 “So it has no less priorities than others. So in this case, we should not make orders with high priority, which are reserved”
• 17:54 “shipable from warehouse is eight. It’s like everything which is in warehouse except in the shipment bin, because shipment bin or dedicated bin, which”
• 18:27 “this delta is what we can take for other non-reserved orders. So in this case, the delta is two”
• 19:49 “now you do not need to use directed pick if the customer or user requires some workhouse capabilities”
• 20:32 “we still can benefit from advanced capabilities like put away templates, picking by ranking, and also allow or do not allow creation of lines”
• 20:55 “we have an ability to receive more than ordered, also using inventory put away together with direct update of purchase document or workhouse receipt”
• 21:18 “you need to spend dramatically less time analyzing the nothing to handle situation because you can get more insights from the special troubleshooting window”

Presenters (as heard): Andrei Panko.