Production Order - Operation Output to Bins?

BrianFaille

Please allow me to ask this question of the forum one more time. I appreciate everyone who reviewed it.

We are in the process of implementing Warehouse Management in NAV 2017, and we have a scenario, which it seems NAV should be able to accommodate:

- We have Manufactured Items with a multiple Component BOM and multiple Operation Routing
- As we manufacture a batch of material on a specific machine, it gets to a certain point where it needs to wait (3-14 days) for the Next Operation
- In this scenario, the batch of material needs to “cure”, and it’s quantity is significant where it is stored on several pallets
- This is not the Last Operation on the Routing, because after it “cures” there are additional Operations, primarily for labeling and pack-out
- Here is the question/issue during that “curing” wait time, the pallets of material are moved to areas in the warehouse identified with Bin Codes
o Is it possible to have Output from a middle Operation (that is not the Last Operation) go to a Bin Code?
o Alternatively, is it possible to move/identify a Manufacturing Production Order to a Bin Code?

It just seems there has to be a way to park a Production Order and it's WIP into a Bin based on a Middle Operation Output and not the Production Order Output. We are trying to avoid having an intermediate Item No, because of the associated transactions and paperwork.

My experience is that occasionally Companies start Production Orders, and for whatever reason (personnel, materials, equipment, cancellations) the Production Order is stopped for a period of time. That Production Order's WIP is combined/organized and stored in a Warehouse Bin(s) until the Production Order is ready to be resumed.

golfer

I would suggest to use an intermediate item. If you set both the parent and the intermediate item to Manufacturing Policy=Make-to-order, you will get two orderlines. First you post the output on the intermediate item and place it in a bin. Later the same intermediate item is consumed in the parent item.