Suggest Warehouse Placement (C44)

Purpose: Use this screen to define the sequence the system uses to suggest locations to place stock during PO Receiving, Inventory Transactions, and Suspense Placement.

Suggest Location Placement (A27)

Defines whether the system suggests locations to store stock during PO Receiving, Inventory Transactions, and Suspense Placement.

Yes/No field: Select this field if you want the system to suggest locations to store stock.

You can override the system's suggested location. Suggested location placement is used during PO Receiving, Inventory Transactions and as a stand-alone function.

Suggest placement: During PO Receiving and Suspense Placement, the system displays the suggested location codes for the item, the number of units to be moved to each location, the location type and the capacity values of each location. You can accept the system's suggestions by selecting Receive All to receive all items on the purchase order or by selecting Receive for the item you wish to receive. Otherwise, you can override the quantities or locations suggested.

When you use suggest location placement, the system will not recommend the item's “primary primary” location but instead will use the values defined in the Suggest Location Placement system control values to determine how to suggest locations. (The “primary primary” location is stored in the Primary location field in the SKU table.)

The system evaluates the system control values for:

• Suggest Location Placement (A27): which enables this feature.

• Type of Location to Search First during Suggest Location Placement (C40): which defines the location type to search first for item placement.

• Type of Location to Search Second during Suggest Location Placement (C41): which defines the location type to search second for item placement.

• Type of Location to Search Third during Suggest Location Placement (C42): which defines the location type to search third (last) for item placement.

• Suggest Multiple Items in a Location during Suggest Location Placement (C43): which controls whether the system will suggest placing an item in a location already occupied by another item or will suggest only empty locations.

• Location Capacity Method (A31): which defines, in units or cubic volume, how many units can fit into the location.

• Default Primary Location - Suspense Placement and PO Receipts (C08): which defines whether an item's primary location will default when receiving into Suspense Placement or PO Receipts.

If you selected Default Primary Location - Suspense Placement and PO Receipts (C08), the system will default the item's primary location in the Location field; however, you can still use Suggest Location Placement, and override the default location.

Leave this field unselected if you do not want the system to suggest a location. If you leave this field unselected during receiving and suspense placement, you must enter a location to store the product.

For more information: See Suggest Warehouse/Location Placement.

Type of Location to Search First during Suggest Location Placement (C40)

Defines the type of location the system evaluates first when suggesting locations to place the item during PO Receiving, Inventory Transactions and Suspense Placement.

Code field: Enter the location type that should be evaluated first when suggesting locations to place the item.

Valid values are:

• *PRIMARY = Search primary locations first when suggesting locations to place the item.

• *SECONDARY = Search secondary locations first when suggesting locations to place the item.

• *BULK = Search bulk locations first when suggesting locations to place the item.

The Suggest Location Placement (A27) system control value controls whether the system suggests locations to store stock during PO Receiving, Inventory Transactions, and Suspense Placement.

For more information: See Suggest Warehouse/Location Placement.

Type of Location to Search Second during Suggest Location Placement (C41)

Defines the type of location the system evaluates second when suggesting locations to place the item during PO Receiving, Inventory Transactions and Suspense Placement.

Code field: Enter the location type that should be evaluated second when suggesting locations to place the item.

Valid values are:

• *PRIMARY = Search primary locations second when suggesting locations to place the item.

• *SECONDARY = Search secondary locations second when suggesting locations to place the item.

• *BULK = Search bulk locations second when suggesting locations to place the item.

The Suggest Location Placement (A27) system control value controls whether the system suggests locations to store stock during PO Receiving, Inventory Transactions, and Suspense Placement.

For more information: See Suggest Warehouse/Location Placement.

Type of Location to Search Third during Suggest Location Placement (C42)

Defines the type of location the system evaluates third (last) when suggesting locations to place the item during PO Receiving, Inventory Transactions and Suspense Placement.

Code field: Enter the location type that should be evaluated third (last) when suggesting locations to place the item.

Valid values are:

• *PRIMARY = Search primary locations third (last) when suggesting locations to place the item.

• *SECONDARY = Search secondary locations third (last) when suggesting locations to place the item.

• *BULK = Search bulk locations third (last) when suggesting locations to place the item.

The Suggest Location Placement (A27) system control value controls whether the system suggests locations to store stock during PO Receiving, Inventory Transactions, and Suspense Placement.

For more information: See Suggest Warehouse/Location Placement.

Suggest Multiple Items in a Location during Suggest Location Placement (C43)

Controls whether the system will suggest placing an item in a location already occupied by another item or will suggest only empty locations.

Select this field if more than one item can be inventoried in a location; otherwise, leave unselected.

If you leave this field unselected, the system will look at empty locations only to place the item being received or transferred.