Laurens van der Tang Terberg Group

When receiving an ASN with parent and child LP, unpacking is required if you intend to transfer the parent license plate along with the child license plates to another warehouse. Currently, the only transfer feature supporting the transfer of the parent license plate with child license plates is a mobile device menu item called 'Warehouse transfer'.

If you attempt to perform this transfer via a transfer order, the warehouse app either generates an error after performing the pack to nested LP, or it suggests generating a new license plate, which disrupts the packing structure. It would be beneficial if the transfer logic for a parent license plate from the warehouse transfer also functioned for transfer order picking.

The 'Cancel' button in the 'Transfer Order History' form allows users to cancel a shipped transfer order. However, currently, this button is only available when the transfer order is not shipped from a warehouse management-controlled warehouse. It would be useful if the 'Cancel' button also worked for transfer orders that have been shipped from a warehouse management-controlled warehouse.

When creating an inventory adjustment, movement, or counting journal and selecting the location or batch number field, there's an option to select 'On-hand'. This allows Dynamics to display on-hand inventory for the batch numbers or serial numbers. It would be beneficial if the same feature ('On-hand') were also available for license plates.

It is not possible to run the Explosion feature in combination with Planning Optimization. This is a challenge in the case of a multilevel bill of materials. It would be really nice if this Explosion feature could be added to Planning Optimization, especially for scenarios with multilevel bills of materials.

When the parameter 'Blank receipt allowed' is active for the tracking dimension serial number, the warehouse app does not allow you to skip or bypass the serial number during registration. However, if you register the items via the old method (registration through the purchase order line), you can skip or bypass the serial number when the parameter 'Blank receipt allowed' is active.

In the location directive, you can configure the strategy "Location aging FIFO" for picking. The system checks the aging date of the location. However, the aging date is updated whenever you move a license plate into a location. The disadvantage is that if you add multiple license plates with different items to a location, the aging date gets updated each time a license plate is added. Let me explain with the following example:

• Item X001 is in location A001 with LP001 dated 1-05-XXXX.
• Item Y002 is in location A001 with LP002 dated 1-10-XXXX.
• Item X001 is in location A002 with LP003 dated 1-07-XXXX.
• Item Y003 is in location A002 with LP004 dated 1-09-XXXX.

In the above scenario, the aging date of location A001 is 1-10-XXXX, and the aging date of location A002 is 1-09-XXXX. If you release a sales order or transfer order for item X001 for picking, Dynamics will propose picking from location A002 because its aging date is older than that of location A001, even though the license plate of item X001 in location A001 is older than that in location A002.

It would be very helpful to have an additional location directive strategy that checks the aging of the license plate in combination with the item, rather than just the aging date of the location.

Using a mobile device, it is possible to move a license plate (movement by template) from location Y to location X within a warehouse. A license plate may contain serialized items, such as an item with 1,000 unique serial numbers. During the movement, a license plate label can be printed.

However, if the item has serial numbers, Dynamics generates a license plate label for each serial number. In the case of 1,000 serial numbers, 1,000 labels are printed, which is not desirable.

A new feature that allows companies to control the number of license plate labels printed for serialized items would be highly beneficial.

The new return feature for warehouse management is a great addition. However, it would be beneficial if users also had the ability to receive containers (e.g., boxes or pallets) with items and serial numbers.

Currently, when you try to receive a license plate with multiple serial numbers, each serial number must be received individually. While this is not an issue for a single serial number, it becomes highly inefficient when processing returns with 100 or more unique serial numbers.

The system does not automatically create quality orders for transfer orders as it does for purchase orders. However, it would be beneficial if the system supported automatic quality order creation during the receipt of transfer orders, especially when receiving items from subcontractors.

For example, a subcontractor produces a semi-finished product and ships it to the factory. Upon receipt (via a transfer order), the factory intends to use the semi-finished product in the final assembly. However, before proceeding, a quality inspection is required to ensure that the semi-finished product meets the necessary quality standards.

In some scenarios, warehouse workers need to create a new license plate during item movement within the warehouse.

For example, a worker picks up a box of items and moves it to a new location. In this case, the box represents a license plate. During the movement, the worker clicks on ‘Override LP’ to create a new license plate, which then becomes the identifier for a pallet.

After completing this movement, the worker picks up another box and moves it to the newly created pallet. During the movement of the first box and the creation of the new license plate, a license plate label should be printed. However, when the system prints the license plate label, it still displays the old license plate ID.

The root cause is that the printing process occurs before the put step. To resolve this, it would be beneficial to implement a solution that ensures license plate labels are printed after the put step.