Restructure Warehouses

You may want to restructure your warehouse with new bin codes and new bin characteristics. You will not undertake this kind of activity very often, but situations can occur where a reclassification is necessary to achieve or maintain a more efficient operation. For example:

  • You might want to switch to bin codes that support the use of automatic data capture, for example, with hand-held devices.
  • The warehouse may have purchased a new rack system that gives new possibilities in item storage.
  • The company may have altered its item assortment and moved the warehouse to a new physical location to accommodate this change.

If your warehouse is set up to use bins but not directed put-away and pick, restructure your warehouse by creating the new bins that you want to use in the future.

To restructure a basic warehouse that uses bins only

  1. Choose the Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature icon, enter Locations, and then choose the related link.

  2. On the Warehouse FastTab, set the Default Bin Selection field to Last-Used Bin.

  3. Move all the contents of your current bins to the new bins that you have just created.

    1. Choose the Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature icon, enter Item Reclassification Journal, and then choose the related link.
    2. Select a journal line, and then choose the Get Bin Content action.
    3. On the Bin Content FastTab, set filters in the Location Code, Bin Code, and Item No. fields to specify the content that you want to move.
    4. Choose the OK button to fill a journal line.
    5. In the New Bin Code field, select the bin to which the items should be moved.
    6. Repeat steps b through e for all bin content that you want to move.
    7. Choose the Post action.

You have now emptied the bins where the items used to be. The default bins for your items have now been changed to the new bins.

To restructure an advanced warehouse that uses directed put-away and pick

  1. Create the new bins that you want to use in the future. For more information, see Create Bins.

  2. Move all the contents of your current bins to the new bins that you just created.

    1. Choose the Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature icon, enter Warehouse Reclassification Journal, and then choose the related link.
    2. For the bins where no real movement of items is involved, create a line for each of your current bins in the Warehouse Reclassification Journal with the old bin code, From Bin Code, and the new bin code, To Bin Code.
    3. If some of the movements involve actual physical movements that you want employees to perform, use Movement Worksheets to prepare movement instructions instead of using the warehouse reclassification journal. For more information, see Move Items in Advanced Warehouse Configurations.

  3. When the old bins are emptied, reclassify them as QC type bins to ensure that they are not included in item flows.

    1. Choose the Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature icon, enter Locations, and then choose the related link.
    2. Select the line with the location, and then choose the Bins action.
    3. On the Bins page, in the Bin Type Code field, enter QC for each of the old bins that you emptied in step 3 in the previous procedure.

You have now removed the bins from the warehouse flow, and reclassified them as QC bins. QC bins have none of the activity fields on the Bin Types page selected and are therefore not considered by the item flow. For more information, see Set Up Bin Types.

To delete a bin

  1. Choose the Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature icon, enter Locations, and then choose the related link.
  2. Select the location where you want to delete bins. Choose the Bins action.
  3. Select the lines for the bins that you want to delete.
  4. Choose the Delete action.

If you choose the Yes button, the bin is deleted for use in the future, but the bin code in all warehouse entries remains the same.

If you want to rename a bin so that all records associated with the bin are also renamed, including bin contents, warehouse activity lines, registered warehouse activity lines, warehouse worksheet lines, warehouse receipt lines, posted warehouse receipt lines, warehouse shipment lines, posted warehouse shipment lines, and warehouse entries, you can do so on the Bins page.

To rename a bin and change the bin code in all records

  1. Choose the Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature icon, enter Locations, and then choose the related link.
  2. Select the location where you want to rename a bin or change the bin code, and then choose the Bins action.
  3. Select the bin that you want to change and enter a new bin code in the Code field.
  4. Choose the Yes button.
Note

If you choose Yes and there are many entries concerning this bin, for example, because you have not deleted warehouse documents for some time, it may take some time to rename all the records. Therefore, if you use this method, consider running the batch job Delete Registered Whse. Documents before you start the renaming process. Also note that the only documents that are deleted in this batch job are put-aways, picks, and movements.

If you are renaming a receiving bin or a shipping bin, all the posted receipts or shipments that refer to the bin in question are renamed.

See Also

Warehouse Management
Inventory
Setting Up Warehouse Management
Assembly Management
Design Details: Warehouse Management
Working with Business Central

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