Dynamics NAV Warehouse Inventory Flow: Step Up Your Performance

Companies who struggle with managing warehouse inventory turn to Microsoft Dynamics NAV to improve their warehouse inventory flow. In this blog we will walk through what proper inventory flow looks like with Microsoft Dynamics NAV warehouse functionality. To understand this concept of inventory flow, we will “walk through” the warehouse management functionality inside the ERP software system.

Step by Step Microsoft Dynamics NAV Warehouse Inventory Flow

1. Tracking Items: To support the physical handling of items on the zone and bin level, all information must be traced for each transaction or movement in the warehouse. This is managed in the Warehouse Entry table. Each transaction is stored in a warehouse register.
2. Tracking Activities: Warehouse documents and a warehouse journal are used to register item movements in the warehouse. Every time that an item in the warehouse is moved, received, put away, picked, shipped, or adjusted, warehouse entries are registered to store the physical information about zone, bin, and quantity.
3. What’s in the Bin? The Bin Content table is used to handle all the different dimensions of the contents of a bin per item, such as unit of measure, maximum quantity, and minimum quantity. The Bin Content table also contains flow fields to the warehouse entries, warehouse instructions, and warehouse journal lines, which ensures that the availability of an item per bin and a bin for an item can be calculated quickly.
4. Synchronizing Data:  When item postings occur outside the warehouse module, a default adjustment bin per location is used to synchronize warehouse entries with inventory entries. During physical inventory of the warehouse, any differences between the calculated and counted quantities are recorded in the adjustment bin and then posted as correcting item ledger entries.

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A previous version of this blog was posted on iCepts blog posted by Greg Miles on September 3, 2014:  Better Warehouse Inventory Flow with Dynamics NAV

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