How to: Plan Warehouse Movements in Worksheets
Plan movements in the worksheet using a bin replenishment function or manually planning the lines that you want to create as movement instructions.
Calculating Replenishment Movements
As the warehouse ships items out to customers, the bins with the highest bin rankings contain fewer and fewer items. To fill up these high-ranking pick bins with items from other bins, run the Calculate Bin Replenishment function in the Movement Worksheet window
To calculate a replenishment movement
In the Search box, enter Movement Worksheet, and then choose the related link.
On the Actions tab, in the Functions group, choose Calculate Bin Replenishment.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV creates lines that indicate precisely how you should move items from the low-ranking bins to the higher-ranking bins.
Note
A movement is suggested according to FEFO when you activate the Create Movement function if the following conditions are met for an item:
- The item has an expiration date.
- The Pick according to FEFO field on the location card is selected.
- The Pick according to FEFO field on the location card is selected.
- The From Zone and From Bin fields are blank.
- The item has an expiration date.
Look through the lines and change them if necessary, or delete some of them if there is not enough time to perform them all.
On the Actions tab, in the Functions group, choose Create Movement to make a warehouse instruction for action by warehouse employees.
Making Manual Movements
You can also use the movement worksheet to plan other movement of inventory within the warehouse. For example, when you want to place items in a bin for quality control, you can use the movement worksheet to plan this action and then create a movement to make instructions for an employee.
To move the entire contents of one or more bins by using the Get Bin Content function
In the Search box, enter Movement Worksheet, and then choose the related link.
On the Actions tab, in the Functions group, choose Get Bin Content. Use the request window to filter which bins and items you want to appear on the movement worksheet lines.
Fill in the relevant fields in the batch job request window. For example, if you want to see the bin content of all the bins in a certain zone at the location, fill in the Zone Code field. If you want to retrieve lines for each bin that contains a particular item, fill in the Item No. field.
Note
You cannot manually move items in or out of a bin of bin type RECEIVE, because items that are in a RECEIVE-type bin must be registered as being put away before they are part of available inventory.
If you are retrieving many lines, choose Sort to select a sorting method to determine the order the lines will appear in the worksheet, and then choose the OK button.
Note
If you use the Get Bin Content batch job several times to get the information you need, the same line can appear more than once. The Get Bin Content batch job does not utilize the Pick according to FEFO functionality. However, if you fill in lines manually for items that have an expiration date and the Pick According to FEFO field selected on the location card, and if you leave the From Zone and From Bin fields blank, then the FEFO functionality will be applied.
Complete some of the retrieved lines to reflect the changes you want to make. For each item that you want to move, you must fill in the Item No., From Bin Code, To Bin Code, and Quantity fields.
Delete the incomplete lines that you used for information.
Once the movement worksheet lines accurately reflect how the movement action should be carried out by the warehouse employee, on the Actions tab, in the Functions group, choose Create Movement to create the instructions for the employee.
See Also
Tasks
How to: Calculate Bin Replenishment