This chapter contains these topics:
To create putaway requests
To locate existing putaway requests
To create suggestions for putaway requests
To confirm suggestions for putaway requests
You use putaway to receive the items into the warehouse and move them from the receiving dock to a storage location. The receiving dock is usually the default location for incoming items, but you can put away items directly to stocking locations and bypass the receiving dock.
You create a putaway request in response to a purchase order (or a manufacturing completion, for manufacturing systems). The system can also generate putaway requests in response to sales credit order returns. You use putaway requests to generate suggestions for locations in which to store items. The system tracks the items in each location. You can find locations with available space and characteristics that match the incoming item and then create suggestions to store items in those locations.
You can use the locations that the system suggests for you or use different locations. You then confirm your chosen locations to move the items from the receiving dock to the putaway location, and to update the system's inventory records.
The putaway process includes:
Working with putaway requests
Working with putaway reservations (optional)
Working with putaway suggestions
See Also:
Appendix B, "Manufacturing Information" for information on creating putaway requests through manufacturing systems.