Edit

Share via

Introduction to Contoso Coffee Warehousing

  • Article

Contoso Coffee is a fictitious company that produces consumer and commercial coffee makers. The Contoso Coffee apps for Business Central add demo data that you can use to learn how to use the warehousing capabilities in Business Central. You can configure warehouse features in various ways, see Overview of different configuration options.

The app provides three locations that are optimized for different scenarios:

  • SILVER

    This Location configured to use Bins. It can be easily configured to support basic or advanced.

  • YELLOW

    This Location uses the advanced warehouse configuration, but doesn't use Bins. It can be reconfigured to support basic configurations.

  • WHITE

    This Location uses the Advanced Warehouse configuration with directed put-aways and picks, which enables more advanced rules to how items move throughout Warehouse.

Set up Contoso Coffee Warehousing data

To use the Contoso Coffee demo data, you must install two apps in the relevant company in Business Central:

  • Contoso Coffee Demo Dataset
    This app delivers demo data for the base application.
  • Contoso Coffee Demo Dataset (country ID)
    This app adds country-specific content on top of the base application.

    Add the apps to an company in a paid subscription or as part of a trial. Add the apps from the marketplace if they are not already listed in the Extension Management page.

Once the relevant apps are installed, go to the Contoso Demo Tool page in Business Central, select the Warehouse Module line and use the Configure action to prepare the modules. The following tables describes the settings:

Field Description
Location Bin The location to use for the basic Location scenarios.
Location Advanced The location to use for the simple logistics scenarios.
Location Directed Put-Away and Pick The location to use for the advanced logistics scenarios.
Location In-Transit The location to use for the in-transit location in transfer scenarios.
Customer No. The customer to use for the basic and simple scenarios in sales operations.
Vendor No. The vendor to use for all scenarios in purchasing operations.
Item 1 No. The main item to use for all scenarios.
Item 2 No. The extra item to use for all scenarios.
Item 3 No. The item with tracking.

Once you're ready, choose the Create Demo Data action. It takes a few minutes to add the data to the underlying database, but then you're ready to run the various scenarios.

Important

If you are running the Scenarios, you may want to verify that your user has been added as for selected locations. For more information, see Set Up Warehouse Employees.

Scenarios

The Contoso Coffee warehousing demo data currently supports the following scenarios for test and training:

  1. Walkthrough of inbound and outbound flow in Basic Warehouse Configurations
  2. Walkthrough of inbound and outbound flow in mixed Warehouse Configurations
  3. Walkthrough of inbound and outbound flow in Advanced Warehouse Configuration with Directed Put-away and Pick

Read the steps for each scenario in the relevant article.

See also

Setting Up Inventory How to Setup Locations Warehousing Design Details