New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2: Use Directed Put-Away and Pick Warehouses with Projects

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 9th of the new functionality in the Application section is use directed put-away and pick warehouses with projects.

Businesses can use warehouse activities with projects to help drive an effective flow through the warehouse, and to organize and maintain inventory.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

As a continuation to Microsoft’s multi-release effort to ensure that project management features benefit from the rich warehouse capabilities in Business Central, you can now use locations configured for directed flows with projects.

Business picking items before they’re consumed in different ways. The process depends on how their warehouse is configured. When you want to specify either a default Location Code on the Project and Project Task Lines Subform pages, or enter a Location Code on Project Planning Lines, you can now also use locations where the Directed Put-Away and Pick toggle is turned on.

Now, to create or register a pick document, you can use the Create warehouse pick action under the following conditions:

• The Status of the project is Open.
• The Line Type of the project planning line is Budget or Both Budget and Billable.
• The Type of the project planning line is Item.
• The Project Consump. Whse. Handling is Warehouse Pick (mandatory) , which is now available when Directed Pick and Put-away is selected.

You can also create warehouse picks using a pick worksheet. The pick worksheet lets you organize pick information before you create warehouse pick instructions. You’ll need to fill in the a To-Project Bin Code field on the Location Card page.

My Opinion

it sounds like this enhancement brings project in line with the standard Business Central functionality which should simplify processes for people using project. My experience with projects was for a former employer who had heavily customised the project module; I really need to spend a bit of time and familiarise myself with the standard functionality.