Full Warehouse Tracking with serial no. is time consuming

Owned by Johannes Sebastian Nielsen
Last updated: Oct 13, 2023
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Problem

During Pick or Put-away, I am asked to register Item and Bin and Serial Number for each line individual serial number 


Solution: Don't track on Warehouse/Bin-level (Warehouse Tracking)

This way you will see One line, where you can register i.e. 10 different Serial numbers, instead of 10 lines where you have to register Bin and Item each time.


How to set it up:

On the Items "Item Tracking Code" perform the following set-up.

  • Enable "SN Specific Tracking"
  • Enable "Outbound SN Sales Tracking"
  • Disable "SN Warehouse Tracking"

There are two levels of Item Tracking

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First level: SN/Lot-specific tracking

If you want to track specific items or specific lots throughout their lifetime, you must choose the SN Specific Tracking and Lot Specific Tracking fields, respectively.

As a result, when handling an outbound unit of an item with this item tracking code, you must always specify which existing serial number or which existing lot number to handle.

This means that when selling a unit of the item, it must be applied against a specific pool of serial numbers or a specific lot number in inventory.

Or in other words, a serial number or lot number assigned to the item when entering into inventory must follow that item type out of inventory.


Orders handle Items as a pool.

The warehouse worker can Pick/Put-away/Move/Count whichever piece of the correct Item.

Tracking information is not stored on Warehouse Entries.


The system knows:

  • An Item is in Inventory with 100 pcs. with 100 serial numbers. 
  • They are stored in four different Bins.

The system does not know:

  • Which Serial Numbers are in which Bins.

Second Level: Full SN/Lot Warehouse Tracking

Select only Warehouse Tracking if you have a need to know how each specific Serial/Lot is stored or handled all the way through the warehouse.

Example:

  • Was the Goods stored in refrigerated Bin?
  • Are we Picking the exact Item the Customer wants?
  • You want to enable "Pick According to FEFO" (First Expired First Out) on the location.


Orders handle Items individually.

The warehouse worker must Pick/Put-away/Move/Count the exact piece of the correct Item.

Tracking information is stored on Warehouse Entries.

Note: It is VERY cumbersome to use Full warehouse Tracking with Serial Numbers - you will have to scan each Serial for every warehouse activity.

The system knows:

  • An Item is in Inventory with 100 pcs. with 100 serial numbers. 
  • They are stored in four different Bins.
  • Which Serial Numbers are in which Bins.


A custom way of using Full Warehouse tracking

  • Disable "Bin Validation"

  • Enable "RegisterRealtimeQuantity"
    • This will create a call to the Back-end for each registration.
    • Here you will receive the Lot or Serial No. 
      • From this you will have to determine the Item and Bin
      • Store this and use the information during posting

  • Consider Register directly on Order Lines by scan (SingleScanRegistration)