Directed Put-away and Picks

Fisherman

we're having an issue here.

We purchased ADCS, Lanham, and the Advanced warehousing granules.

We want to try a few things with the Item Reclassification Journal on test. Whenever we try to either calculate bin content, or manually create a reclassification entry, we get the following message:

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Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision

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Directed Put-away and Pick must be No in Location Code='CLVLND'.

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OK

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So, we go to the location card, and uncheck the "Directed Put-away and Pick" option, and we get this message:

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Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision

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You cannot change the Adjustment Bin Code until the inventory stored in Bin ADJUST is 0.

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OK

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our NSC tells us that this check mark must be here to enable the advanced granules that we purchased. How in the world am I supposed to use the reclassification journal if my "advanced" features disable it? What kind of "advanced" features shut off basic ones?

nunomaia

There are 2 types of journal. Work at warehouse ledger entries and item entries. When you have activated the option Directed Put-away checked, you normally use Whse. Phys. Invt. Journal, Warehouse movments etc.

Fisherman

Right, but I need both sets of functionality. I need to reclassify materials, and I need to use directed putaways.

It just seems stupid that enabling advanced functionality would disallow the use of base functionality. Obsolete it, sure. Warn the user that a better way to do it exists - right on. Disable it so that you can't use it - what the hell?

nunomaia

Can you explain the type of Reclassification you are trying to do?

Fisherman

sure - you can read it here...

http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16803

basically, we need to quarantine materials. We can't actually scrap them, because they're not ours. What we need to do is move them out of WIP, replace them with good materials from stock, and post consumption and output. From what we've been able to determine (empirically) we need to effect the Item Ledger before we can issue a pick for the quantity that was quarantined and update the Production order. Since movements only effect the bin contents, and phys. invt. journals take the materials completely out of the system, we were looking to use the reclassification journal.

nunomaia

I think Whse. Item Journal can solve your problem.

Fisherman

We've been down that road already. We don't want to remove the quantities from overall inventory. We can't do that by contract. We have to move them to QC Scrap bin, and wait for disposition. The Whse. Item Journal will adjust the quantities out. The Item Reclassification Journal, however, has "Old Bin" and "New Bin" fields that would allow us to just move them, but it appears that it would also effect the Item Ledger, which is what we're going for.

nunomaia

You can create a simple codeunit using Warehouse Activity.

A more simples Way it's to use Warehouse Movement Worksheet, and every time you create a movement, automatically register.

mcoAggie

Fisherman, Did you ever solve this problem?

I am writing a form to do the exact same thing, but haven't gotten the bugs out yet. You first have to get rid of the testfield inside the validation of the item journal for the directed pick and putaway. It is easy to do by hand once this testfield is gone. Do the reclass on theitem journal then go to the whse journal and adjust the bin quantities.

To do it auotmatically I am using a copy of the reclass journal to post the item ledger and then I will create the necessary whse journal line to post the bin movement.
You just have to do it before you commit the item ledger post so if the whse jnl post fails then you can roll it all back. Requires updates to CU22,23.

Fisherman

we're actually in the middle of moving to a Navision vertical called 3PLink from Camelot consulting. They have a kitting module that we'll be using for this operation, as well as other features that we'll be using.