Introduction
You can receive and put away items of inbound orders, such as purchase orders, sales return orders, or inbound transfer orders.
Generally, the process of receiving inbound orders consists of two major activities:
Receiving items at the warehouse receiving dock
Putting away items to the stocking area
In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, receiving and putting away items is done by following one of these four methods:
Post receipt and put-away from the order line.
Post receipt and put-away from an inventory put-away document.
Post receipt and put-away from a warehouse receipt document.
Post receipt from a warehouse receipt document and post put-away from a warehouse put-away document.
Selecting an approach depends on the company's accepted practices and the level of their organizational complexity. In an order-by-order warehousing environment, companies post the receipt and put-away from the order line or use inventory put-away documents. Companies that need to plan the handling of multiple orders at once might find it helpful to use warehouse receipt documents.
When a location is set up for mandatory bin usage, the program also creates warehouse entries in addition to the item ledger entries and value entries when posting a receipt. These entries are the records of the items' placement in the warehouse at the bin level. The following units in this module demonstrate the available options for receiving and putting away items in Business Central.