Currently, the quantity per license plate has to be specified upfront as a Product unit conversion and added to the Unit sequence group.
For many projects (I know of 5 customers in my own company) the quantity per LP is unknown at the time of receiving as different vendors may send different packaging formats.
Here are two real-world examples:
- Customer has 5kg bags, 20kg bags, 25kg bags of powder sent from different suppliers on different pallet configurations. One LP per pallet.
- Another customer has 10pcs 12pcs or 15pcs per carton, with cartons on a pallet. Each carton may or may not require a separate LP. (Generally if more than 10 cartons received then a single LP per pallet). The customer also needs to print a label for each carton.
In both cases it is the warehouse worker that "discovers" the packing format.
Idea:
- Add a new (3rd) option named "User specified quantity" to "Licence plate grouping policy". When this option is selected the user will be prompted to enter the quantity per LP.
- Add a tick-box for all receiving flows named "Request number of labels". When this option is selected the user will be prompted to enter the number of labels per LP.
We should be able to specify the number of labels to print per LP. This will allow the correct number of labels to be printed for each license plate.
e.g.
- 25 cartons of 12 pcs on a pallet
- User enters 300 pcs / LP
- User enters 25 labels / LP
Please also refer to this Yammer conversation.
https://www.yammer.com/dynamicsaxfeedbackprograms/threads/2536302012276736
Comments
This is definitely a topic we need in our process! We'd really appreciate a rapid implementation.
Category: Warehouse Management
In my experiences with Warehousing, ERP and MRO systems, I have never NOT seen it this way. It is redundant and a Labor and time deficiency (one of the 3 drains) with the D365 system. Just know you will lose in this area until this is corrected.
Category: Warehouse Management
We have this same requirement and will need to do some development for it soon to make the receiving process more efficient for our users.
Category: Warehouse Management
Any News regarding exteded feature for this functionality - For all producers in Process industry this is a feature required as no production ends up with a full unit.
Category: Warehouse Management
Yes please, highly needed and we have it as a gap in many projects. Please consider making this thanks.
Category: Warehouse Management
Just started a new project where this is an issue, we are most likely going to do a customization as they don't want to receive per single pallet. Some items have up to seven different vendors and each vendor with a different pallet size, reaching from 500kg / PL to 1000kg / PL.
Category: Warehouse Management
This would be a game changer, we have been asked this so many times.
Category: Warehouse Management
This is a good idea that I will support. However, it’s only half of the truth. The Unit conversion concept is outdated imho. If you have two sites under the same legal entity there might be multiple reasons to have a different packing structure. E.g. 80x120 pallet vs 100x100 pallet. Going further a unit conversion per vendor wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
but your idea is a good starting point. It would also need include the location directive logic to be able to pick/move full LPs.
Category: Warehouse Management
same problem in our company. We have to print for every piece a label and we can only transfer one LP with the total quantity to the next system (external warehouse management system).
Here, too, we cannot solve this via master data, as this varies from supplier to supplier and can even vary from delivery to delivery from the same supplier (e.g. due to different densities of raw materials).
Category: Warehouse Management
Thanks for this idea Nicholas!
I can only confirm that this is a requirement in most of our projects as well!
One open question for me is still which label print is going to be triggered, since we need 1 LP label (the 300 pcs. pallet in your example) and 25 product labels (the 25 cartons in your example).
It would be good if you could trigger one LP layout und one other product label layout using the new label print functionality in D365!
Category: Warehouse Management
Administrator on 12/6/2023 7:31:19 AM
Thank you for your feedback. Currently this is not in our roadmap; however, we are tracking it and if we get more feedback and votes, we may consider it in the future.
Sincerely,
Per Lynnerup
PM, Microsoft