With inventory management, we can use the locations to see where the inventory is. For some trading companies, this is good enough but some would like to be more specific in where the items are in the warehouse.
For this, we can use the Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. WMS enables us to specify zones and bins within each location.
Another feature in warehouse management is the possibility of combining sales shipments and purchase receipts in warehouse documents. Using these documents, warehouse employees can pick or put away for more than one order at the same time resulting in a more efficient way of doing logistics.
Warehouse management can be used and implemented from very simple to highly advanced. To demonstrate the application design of WMS in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we will discuss the following five possible levels of implementation. For each level, we will show the table and...