Business Central 2023 wave 2 (BC23): Configure how to handle different warehouse operations (New Settings for Warehouse)

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The public preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 release wave 2 (BC23) is available. Learn more: Link.

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Configure how to handle different warehouse operations:

Business value:
Warehouse processes such as picking and replenishment are no longer one-size-fits-all. You can configure your warehouse processes differently to suit your inbound, outbound, and internal workflows.

Feature details:

Business Central provides a wealth of capabilities for managing a warehouse, and allows businesses to configure inbound (purchase), outbound (sales), and internal (production) warehouse workflows individually. For example, you can use warehouse shipments to send items to customers, but use inventory movements to replenish bins for production or assembly orders.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2023wave2/smb/dynamics365-business-central/configure-right-level-handling-different-warehouse-operations

Let’s see more details.

You define warehouse handling on the Location Card. The existing Require shipment, Require pick, Require receipt, and Require put-away fields are now used only for warehouse handling for sales, purchases, transfers, and service operations.

Warehouse handling of internal operations, such as production, jobs, and assembly is now controlled by the following new fields:

1. Production consumption (Prod. Consump. Whse. Handling):

Prod. Consumption Whse. Handling
Specifies the warehouse handling for consumption in production scenarios.

• No warehouse handling
• Warehouse Pick (optional). This is for compatibility with existing behavior.
• Inventory Pick/Movement. Movement is for flushing scenarios.
• Warehouse Pick (mandatory)

2. Production Output (Prod. Output Whse. Handling):

Prod. Output Whse. Handling
Specifies the warehouse handling for output in production scenarios

• No warehouse handling
• Inventory Put-away

3. Assembly consumption (Asm. Consump. Whse. Handling):

Asm. Consump. Whse. Handling
Specifies the warehouse handling for consumption in assembly scenarios.

• No warehouse handling
• Warehouse Pick (optional). This is for compatibility with existing behavior.
• Inventory Move
• Warehouse Pick (mandatory)

4. Job consumption (Job Consump. Whse. Handling)

Job Consump. Whse. Handling
Specifies the warehouse handling for consumption in job scenarios.

• No warehouse handling
• Warehouse Pick (optional). This is for compatibility with existing behavior.
• Inventory Pick
• Warehouse Pick (mandatory)

Directed put-away and pick: The controls aren’t editable if you turn on the Directed Put-away and Pick toggle for a location. If you turn on the Directed Put-away and Pick toggle, the following values are assigned automatically:

Production consumption: Warehouse Pick (mandatory)
Production output: No warehouse handling
Assembly consumption: Warehouse Pick (mandatory)
Job consumption: No warehouse handling, Note that Jobs are not supported for locations with Directed Put-away and Pick.

When upgrading the environment, depending on the state of the Require shipment, Require pick, Require receipt, and Require put-away fields, the new fields are initialized as follows:

1. Require shipment is turned off, Require pick is turned off, or Require shipment is turned on, and Required pick is turned off:

• Production consumption: Warehouse Pick (Optional)
• Assembly consumption: Warehouse Pick (Optional)
• Job consumption: Warehouse Pick (Optional)

2. Require shipment is turned off, Require pick is turned on

• Production consumption: Inventory Pick / Movement
• Assembly consumption: Inventory Move
• Job consumption: Inventory Pick

3. Require shipment is turned on, Require pick is turned on

• Production consumption: Warehouse Pick (mandatory)
• Assembly consumption: Warehouse Pick (mandatory)
• Job consumption: Warehouse Pick (mandatory)

4. Require receipt is turned off, Require put-away is turned off or Require receipt is turned on, Require put-away is turned off or Require receipt is turned on, Require put-away is turned on

• Production output: No warehouse handling

5. Require receipt is turned off, Require put-away is turned on

• Production output: Inventory put-away

But this only occurs when the environment is upgraded, and it will not be automatically initialized when manually set.

Note
Because you couldn’t define warehouse handling for internal operations, Business Central let you create warehouse pick in multiple cases, including scenarios where users expected to use an inventory pick/movement. The new settings let you define an exact flow and avoid confusion if one user chooses an inventory pick but another creates a warehouse pick.

Great. Give it a try!!!😁

PS: In previous versions

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Hope this will help.

Thanks for reading.

ZHU