Production Containers

Production Containers are multi-item containers, even though they are not linked to an inbound or outbound document. This restriction has been lifted, so that a multi-item container can exist in the warehouse, but has to be linked to a Production Order (Line). Please note that a container can only be linked to a Released Production Order, not Planned or Firm Planned.

The example of a production container is a pallet that is assembled prior to starting production and will contain multiple items that will be consumed during production. Consider the ingredients necessary for the production of dough. Usually the flour will be picked from the warehouse in whole pallets, but salt, sugar, seeds and other additives are usually picked in bags. The Production Container functionality allows for the creation of a pallet with those items either beforehand manually or by creating a production pick.
The production pallet can then be moved as one to the production consumption area (or picked into the consumption bin) and can also be used to post consumption from.

Finally, during the production order picking towards a container, the system will allow for over-picking of items. It will be possible to "pick" more than the required quantity and later move any excess quantity back into the warehouse manually if required.
Production containers can be created in any location and in any Bin, but there are restrictions. Moving a production container from bin to bin is possible as long as a location is not set as "Pick Mandatory".
If that is the case, the production container can be moved freely from one bin to another, but it can only be moved into the production consumption bin through the use of a pick.

If a location is set up to use picks, a Production Pick that is created will always first look at available production containers linked to that production order. If such a container is found, the container license plate field is filled on both the take and place lines for the items in the container.
If the container contains items that are not on the pick, the registration of the pick will fail. The reasoning is that a production container is assembled beforehand, containing all or most of the necessary consumable items. It therefore does not make sense to create a partial pick that uses only some of the containerized items.

See also

• setting up Production Containers
• setting up Production Container label printing
• manually creating a Production Container
• manually adding items to a Production Container
• creating a Production Container during a Production Pick
• managing a Pick using Production Containers
• consuming from a Production Container
• Using SSCC-codes in NAV Food