Product Engineering - QM Put-away Bin

How To : Quality Management Bin for Put-away

When using Put-away Templates in a Directed Warehouse items can be put-away in a Quality Management QC bin before being moved to storage or picking bin in the warehouse. Note, that this scenario creates an extra step in the receiving process:

  1. From receiving to QC
  2. From QC to storage

Set-up

Put-away template

  • A Put-template is used when, on the Location card, the Warehouse setting Directed Put-away and Pick is on.
  • The Template itself must be selected on the Bin Policies tab, Put-away Template Code.

A new column has been added to the Put-away Template: Find QC Zone Bin
Since the Put-away template lines are processed top-down make sure that column is selected in the first line(s) of the template:

For example:

Find Fixed Bin Find Floating Bin Find Same Item Find Unit of Measure Match Find Bin w. less than Min. Qty Find Empty Bin Find QC Zone Bin
V V V
V V
V V V V

Zone

From the Location card select Zones to create a Quality Management Zone. The Bin Type Code must be PUTAWAY fot this zone as the Put-away process must be able to find it.

Bin

From the Zones card select Bins to create bins for the new zone. Make sure to check the QC Bin column.

QM Subscriber

A specific QM subscriber is available: 7319 Posted Whse. Receipt Line - QM-QC bin Put-away which must be selected in QM Subscribers to create an Incident when the Warehouse Put-away is created.
With this subscriber the program will check the Put-away template for a Find QC Zone Bin.
When no QM Incident is created the program will ignore the Find QC Zone Bin.

Move material from the QM-QC bin to its final location

Once material has been inspected and either Accepted or Rejected it must be moved out of the QM-QC to its final destination in the Warehouse.
This is done with the Movement Worksheet. These worksheets are per warehouse and with the Get Bin Content action in the worksheet list the items per Zone or per Bin.
Select the lines that are ready to be moved and select the destination Zone and Bin. When complete use the Create Movement action to create a Warehouse Movement with which Warehouse employees can be instructed yto move the items.

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