Description

The Mobile WMS app can be used to register the receiving of items in many different ways in Business Central.

The Location setup will determine how Receiving orders is handled on the mobile device.

Overview

Receive by Printing and Scanning

We highly recommend printing new Item Labels when you receive items.

You will get the most out of Mobile WMS because all processes can now be scanned using these labels.

The process is:

Print the label from Receipt-lines
Scan the label to perform the receipt
This method ensures your registrations and your labels match exactly

Supported Documents

Purchase Orders

For customers with simple warehouse requirements and without using the warehouse module, the Mobile WMS app can integrate directly to purchase orders in Business Central.

Purchase orders will be available for Receiving on the mobile device if:

The location code on the purchase order header is configured to not use Receipts or Put-aways
The purchase order is released
The user logged onto the mobile device, is configured to work on this location
This is done on the warehouse employee page

The typical work process is:

Create a new purchase order and release it
Receive the order using the mobile device
This is equivalent to:
1. Fill out the “Qty. to receive” on each order line
2. Register item tracking information (if needed) for each order line
3. Register the bin code (if needed)
  Note: Splitting of purchase lines is not supported. Only one bin can be registered. If you need to register received items in multiple bins, you should use Put-aways
4. Post the purchase order as received

Warehouse Receipts

The warehouse Receipts can either be used alone or together with the Put-away functionality. The receipt order allows the warehouse manager to get the order lines to receive from multiple sources (purchase orders, sales return orders, etc.).

This can be done using the “Get source documents” function

A typical way to use the Warehouse Receipt

is to group together deliveries from a certain vendor or by a shipping agent.

When the mobile device is used it is equivalent to performing the following operations in BC:

Set the “Qty. to Receive” fields
Register item tracking information using “Item Tracking Lines”
Post the receipt

If the location is set up to also use putaways, then a Put-away order is automatically created when the receipt is posted.

It is possible to post partial Receipts. Every time a receipt is posted, a Put-away order is created.

This can be helpful when handling large Receipts, and you want someone else to start putting items away before the entire receipt is handled.

To get full control over how the Put-away orders are created, it is possible to use the Put-away Worksheet.

Note: If warehouse Receipts are used without Put-aways then it is not possible to register the items in multiple bins per order line (split line).
Splitting a Receipt line is not available in standard Business Central.

Inventory Put-aways

If the location is set up to only require Put-away, then an inventory Put-away order is created to register the receipt of items in one step i.e. move the items directly into the bins.

The inventory Put-away is used to handle receiving order by order. They are typically generated from the purchase order.

This creates an inventory put-way.

When the mobile device is used it is equivalent to performing the following operations in BC:

Set the “Qty. to Handle” fields
Register item tracking information
This is done on the source document line
Use the split line function to place the items in multiple bins
This is handled automatically when the mobile device has registered multiple bins for the same order line.
Post the Put-away
When the inventory Put-away order is posted the items are available for picking.