Dynamics 365 Business Central: Warehouse Management Part 6, Fixed And Floating Bins

Hello, everyone, keep going on warehouse management. Today, we're going to talk about bins. We're going to be talking about bins for a while, so just get used to it.

Today, we're going to talk about fixed versus floating bins. As you can see in the Put-Away Template, we have fixed and floating checkboxes. It usually goes first and finds fixed bins. Then if it cannot find fixed bins, it goes to look for floating bins. The definition of a fixed bin is not a floating bin. If it's set up as fixed, it's not floating. If it's not set up as fixed, it's floating. However, as a fixed bin, in the Put-Away Template you can have it look for a fixed bin first. If a bin has been marked off as fixed, it will look for that first.

We have two bins, we have Storage and Storage 2. Those bins can have something called a content. If you actually receive something into a bin, and in this case we have a coffee mug. I think it's a standard coffee mug. It has 40 quantity inside here. Once it's received into the storage bin, it automatically creates this bin content for this bin. Before, there was no bin content. You can also create bin contents without receiving into them. You can specify attributes of these bin contents. You can designate how they work.

On the bin content, you can actually say this is going to be fixed. If I say that, it's going to be fixed, and it's going to be for this particular coffee mug. Then the system has now identified this storage bin as being a fixed bin for this particular item. When it goes through the Put-Away Template, and it's trying to figure out where to put away the item, and you've set up, "look for a fixed bin with the same item," it will look at the bin content. If the bin content is fixed and has that item, it found it.

In our example, actually, I'm going to do it for Storage 2, not Storage, just to take out the possibility that it's just going in alphabetical order. I'm going to set it up as fixed for this particular coffee mug. Then I'm going to run through the put-away process and see if it picks number two. It should do that since it's a fixed one, right? Let's take a look at that.

Okay, so let's take a look at the bin situation. We go here into location and pick up the north location. Go into Navigate Bins. I have two bins here, the Storage and Storage 2. I should have named this Store 1 and 2, but anyways. What I want to do is create a fixed bin for my coffee mugs. I want the system to find the fixed bin first, just like we talked about in the Put-Away Template.

If I go here into Page Bin Contents, and I can then see the bin content for this particular bin. The bin content is what specifies what is the fixed or floating for a particular bin. Over here, I can go ahead and say, well, this is a fixed bin. I can then specify the item, which – the coffee mug, which is the fixed item for this bin.

What does fixed mean? Like we talked about on the white board, it basically means that this is the preferred put-away bin for this item. Now I'm just going to put that away here. Now, the Storage 1 is not a fixed bin. That would be – if it's not a fixed bin, then it's a floating bin. If it's not fixed, it's floating.

Let's go back into the Put-Away Template, right here, and click on how that's set up. Here, we're looking at finding a fixed bin with the same item. That's first. Then the second, we go into finding a floating bin that's empty. Then finally, we find the floating bin. We should be able to find the fixed bin, or the same item first here. It should suggest the coffee mug to go into Storage 2. Let's go ahead and test that out after I created this big content.

I go into Purchase Order and create a new one again to Fabrikam. We go through this process a lot. It's quick, so that's why I don't mind. The coffee mug into the north location. We release it. Then we go ahead, and we see Actions, Create Warehouse Receipt. The receipt there. We go ahead and post that, and it creates the put-away, hopefully, yes. Now we can go ahead and look up the put-away. Put-away is right here. We have two. Let's take a look at this one.

As we can see, the system talks about taking it from the receiving and putting it into Storage 2. It's using the fixed bin to put it away. Again, this is using the Put-Away Template, which I think is a really good idea. You should use the Put-Away Template. You have now specified particular bins for particular items. That is great. We've locked those two together. That's it.