Warehouse Management

Ensuring smooth warehouse operations is crucial for meeting productivity targets and business objectives. With Dynamics 365 Business Central's warehouse management features, efficiency, consistency, and quality control are within reach.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective warehouse management is essential for ensuring smooth operations and meeting customer demands. With Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can streamline inventory management, optimise picking and packing processes, and improve overall warehouse efficiency. Join us as we delve into the key functionalities and benefits of this feature, and discover how it can empower your business to thrive in the competitive marketplace.

The warehouse management feature simplifies inventory management by allowing easy creation of inventory lists and warehouse receipts to track sales orders and fulfilments. But it doesn’t stop there, the warehouse management system comes packed with features to enhance your warehouse operations.

Features include:

Automated Data-Capture
Consignment Management
Courier Systems Integration
Cycle Counting
eCommerce Integration
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Inventory Optimisation
Multiple Locations
Serial Number and Batch Tracking
Stock-Unit Management

Warehouse management helps to collate organisational information and connect the processes and workflows. This allows for more accurate inventory management to occur because it is based on real-time data collection.

By improving all of the existing processes and automating them it will provide your managers with a clearer picture of the businesses performance – looking at margins, profitability and areas for improvement. Not only this but it also has room for flexibility in the functionality of the feature, allowing businesses to amend individual processes to align with the growth of the business.

There are two ways that the Dynamics 365 Business Central can control the warehouse management; simply, or sophisticated.

A simple warehouse management structure would be where the stock is in the warehouse and the solution simply just manages the quantity of goods by item. PO’s are booked and items are transferred to other locations, then sales orders are marked as shipped to the customers.

For a more sophisticated warehouse management system staff would use handheld scanners to receive PO’s, the scanner will provide them with ‘put away’ instructions where the location in the warehouse for the goods will be specified based on bin capacity and pick up zones. Pick runs (generated by the shipping agent), type of order, and other criteria are used to enable efficient picking routes and shipment confirmation to be recorded at packing benches.