This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.
The thirteenth of the new functionality in the Application section is use directed pick and put-away suggestions in basic warehouse configurations.
Microsoft are enabling a capability for basic warehouse configurations that was previously available only when a location is configured to use directed put-away and pick, which is an advanced configuration. Business Central suggests the most appropriate bin for items at any given time based on the put-away template that you’ve set up for the warehouse, the way you rank your bins, and the minimum and maximum quantities that you specify for fixed bins.
Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023
Feature Details
Put-away template
You can set up put-away templates to control how you put away items in your warehouses. Put-away templates are especially useful when items or stockkeeping units have special storage requirements, such as volume, class, or bins that contain the same items.
Business Central finds a bin that meets the requirements for put-away that you’ve set up for the warehouse, item, or stockkeeping unit. If it can’t find a bin that meets these requirements, it looks for a bin that meets the requirements of the second line, and so on. If several bins match the put-away template criteria, Business Central uses the bin with the highest ranking. If both the put-away template criteria and the bin ranking are the same for more than one bin, Business Central suggests the bin with the highest bin code.
Bin ranking
Business Central will suggest a pick from the bin with the highest ranking. Items in the highest-ranking bins are picked first.
My Opinion
I’m not sure about this one, just on the basis that the current way of things makes sense with needing to configure certain settings for directed put-away and picks to work; I need to see some detail around how this feature is to work and if there is a way to disable if it isn’t wanted.
New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2
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