Hi all,
I observed a missing feature in the new WHS. Maybe you guys had that problem before and know a work around.
For Purchase Put-away I have a 3-tier strategy.
1) Consolidate 2) Find empy Location 3) If no location is found, leave it where it is.
Imagine I have Products A, B and C. They are all the same.
And Locations 1, 2, 3 and 4
When Location 1 contains items but they cannot be consolidated with A and Locations 2 to 5 are empty, the location directive strategy "Consolidate" fails and "Empty Locations with no incoming work" follows. Here it finds Location 2 and creates a work line for putting A into 2.- That is correct!
Now comes the tricky part. AX runs the same logic again for B. It tries to consolidate with location 1 and fails - that is perfect. But then it is not trying to consolidate item B with location 2. Why?! ABC can all be put in the same location. But it seems like "Consolidation" is checking only for physical available inventory. After failing consolidation in 1 it wants to find an empty bin and fails in 2, because of "incoming work". Thus, it finds location 3. Finally C goes in location 4.
If consolidation would check for incoming work, all three items (ABC) would be stored in location 2.
Fun fact. If an identical item is already in location 2, the consolidation works perfect and ABC are all consolidated in location 2.
Can I force the consolidation strategy to look on reserved items? Otherwise the directive is wasting my storage...
Thank you so much in advance!
Patrick
