Putaway Strategies

Putaway strategies define where an item should be put away after you receive it. If you include zones in a putaway strategy, you can prioritize zones that contain the bins NetSuite WMS suggests during the Putaway process only.

For information about creating putaway strategies, see Defining Putaway Strategies.

NetSuite WMS suggests storage bin locations for putting away an item using the following sorting process:

1. Get values from the following fields on the item record: Item Group, Item Family, ABC Velocity, WMS Mix Lot, WMS Mix Item, and Preferred Bin.

2. Find all valid putaway strategies with criteria that match the item.

3. From each valid strategy, get the warehouse zone and sequence number values.

4. For strategies with zones, sort the warehouse zones based on the sequence number of their associated strategy, in ascending order

5. From the zone or item in each valid strategy, find all associated bins, applying the following restrictions:

   • If the item configuration allows mixed items, find all associated bin locations.

   • If the item configuration does not allow mixed items, find only the associated bin locations for the selected item.

   • If the item configuration allows mixed lots, find all associated bin locations.

   • If the item configuration does not allow mixed lots, find only the associated bin locations for the selected lot.

6. For each valid strategy, sort the bins based on the putaway sequence number on the bin record, in ascending order.

7. Generate the list of bin suggestions:

   1. Place any preferred bins at the top of the list.

   2. Include the groups of sorted bins, following the sequence number of their associated strategies, in ascending order. Within each subgroup per strategy, place the bins with available quantity before any empty bins. Consider the following conditions:

      • If the item configuration allows mixed items, place bins with mixed items after the empty bins.

      • If the Inventory Status feature is enabled and set it on a strategy, include only the bins with items that match the inventory status of the item to be put away. This applies to preferred bins and the sorted bins.

On your mobile device, you can view the list of sorted bins when you put away items. The following table shows two sample bin lists for items that allow and do not allow mixed items in bins:

Bin List if Mix Items Flag = T	Bin List if Mix Items Flag = F
Preferred Bin - Item	Preferred Bin - Item
(Bins from Putaway Strategy 1 - with or without zones) Bin 1 - Item Bin 2- Item Bin 3- Item Bins with zero qty Bin 10 Bin 11	(Bins from Putaway Strategy 1 - with or without zones) Bin 1 - Item Bin 2- Item Bin 3- Item Bins with zero qty
(Bins from Putaway Strategy 2 - with or without zones) Bin 4 - Item Bin 5- Item Bin 6- Item Bins with zero qty Bin 12 Bin 13	(Bins from Putaway Strategy 2 - with or without zones) Bin 4 - Item Bin 5- Item Bin 6- Item Bins with zero qty
All bins with the Item tag or suffix contain the item you want to put away.
Bins with other items that can be mixed are placed at the bottom of the list, after the empty bins.	Bins with other items are not included in the list.

Related Topics

NetSuite WMS Setup

Installing the NetSuite WMS SuiteApps

Creating Bin Locations or Carts

Creating Items for NetSuite WMS

Enabling Staging at Receiving

Putting Away Items

General Notices