Pallet/Container Tracking

The goods that exist within a company's inventory are oftentimes stored on or in some type of container. This allows a company to facilitate movements of larger item quantities. For example, a manufacturing company that produces individual cases of a finished good may stack multiple cases onto a pallet to expedite the movement of items from the production area to storage in a warehouse.

By defining an inventory item as a "container" in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, it becomes possible for the user to assign other inventory items to the container item. Certain characteristics of the items that are stored on or in a container are captured when the container record is created. When a container is assigned to a document, such as a sales or transfer order, information about the items that have been assigned to that container are automatically copied to the document lines.

The following table describes a sequence of tasks, with links to the topics that describe them. These tasks are listed in the order in which they are generally performed.

To	See
Define the general rules, properties, and values for pallet/container tracking processes.	Configure Pallet/Container Tracking
Create, maintain, and assign container records to documents.	Process Containers