July 12, 2024
Summary: This write-up talks about the Business Central Warehouse Advanced Facility, its core features, functionalities, and how NavisionIndia assisted a business company in streamlining and upgrading its warehouse operations by leveraging this adaptable and scalable software solution.
Notably, the deployment of Business Central Warehouse Management offering Advanced Warehouse Facility helps modern-day businesses streamline and automate key warehouse operations. Chiefly, WMS in Business Central delivers automated reconciliation functionality, which warehouse or production businesses can use for reconciling against Microsoft Dynamics Business Central’s purchase orders.
Next, advanced warehouse management facilities offer powerful picking and help determine the best possible picking routes. For the most part, it helps ensure quick and accurate picks every time with every order. Needless to say, Business Central WMS renders real-time inventory capabilities to share accurate insights into any inventory with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Item Wizard
Significantly, businesses can leverage advanced warehouse management facilities within Business Central to create items quickly by using the item wizard. Undeniably, this inventive and advanced functionality offers a template item setup that allows businesses to enter details in optional and mandatory fields.
Shipments and Receipts Management
Markedly, racking systems in WMS of Business Central help manage stock coming and going in your warehouses. Most importantly, businesses can manage moving items within the warehouses, by utilizing a fully integrated and unified system to boost operational efficiency while saving substantial business hours.
Receive and Put Away
Explicitly, the deployment of Business Central Warehouse Management renders a fully integrated system. Chiefly, it enables business organizations functioning around warehouses to receive goods and create a put away from the released order. Most importantly, Put Away is managed from a separate user interface while receiving goods in an order-by-order environment to simplify its usage. For the most part, the Business Central Advanced Warehouse facility system, offering loading docks functionality, allows for cross-docking to reduce storage requirements as well.
Multiple Location Management
In particular, warehouse businesses can leverage Business Central WMS to manage their inventory across production plants, distribution centers, warehouses, and showrooms, including in-transit locations.
Internal Picks and Aways
In general, you can create pick-and-put-away orders for internal use without a source order or sales order. For the most part, the Business Central Advanced Warehouse Facility enables businesses to move stock. Markedly, it can be for testing or to put away production output, without setting up lots of transactions against the General Ledger.
Assembly Order Management
Given these points, Business Central WMS helps specify a list of sellable goods, raw materials, sub-assemblies, and/or resources as an Assembly Bill of Materials. In particular, it can comprise a finished item or a kit. Importantly, production units can use assembly orders to replenish assembly items, to stock, or capture the customer’s unique needs to the kit’s bill of materials directly from the sales quote and order line in the assembly-to-order processes.
Pick Products with Warehouse Instructions
Undeniably, Business Central offers Security, Amenities, Lighting, and Climate Control within an Advanced Warehouse Management facility to pick items with accuracy. Significantly, you can create picking lists according to put-away templates as picking is based on zone and bin rankings. Needless to say, warehouse workers can create a pick from the shipment and manage warehouse shipment from a separate user interface while shipping items in a multi-order environment.
Case Study: Optimizing Warehouse Operations with Advanced Warehouse Facility in Business Central
Our Client, a leading distributor of automotive parts, faced challenges in managing its warehouse operations efficiently due to manual processes, lack of real-time visibility, and inventory inaccuracies. To address these issues they implemented the Advanced Warehouse Facility in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, transforming its warehouse operations and significantly improving productivity, accuracy, and customer satisfaction.
Challenges:
- Manual Processes: They relied on manual processes for receiving, packing, and shipping goods, leading to inefficiencies, errors, and delays.
- Lack of Real-time Visibility: The lack of real-time visibility into inventory levels, warehouse activities, and order statuses hindered decision-making and proactive management of warehouse operations.
- Inventory Inaccuracies: Inaccurate inventory counts, stockouts, and discrepancies between physical inventory and system records resulted in order fulfillment errors and customer dissatisfaction.
- Limited Scalability: With a growing product portfolio and increasing order volumes, it struggled to scale its warehouse operations efficiently using traditional methods.
Solution:
To address these challenges, they implemented the Advanced Warehouse Facility in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, which offered the following key features and capabilities:
- Automated Processes: The Advanced Warehouse Facility automated warehouse processes such as receiving, put-away, picking, packing, and shipping, reducing manual errors and improving operational efficiency.
- Real-time Inventory Tracking: The system provided real-time visibility into inventory levels, locations, and movements, enabling accurate inventory management and proactive decision-making.
- Barcode Scanning: Barcode scanning technology was integrated into the Advanced Warehouse Facility to track inventory movements accurately and facilitate faster and error-free picking, packing, and shipping processes.
- Inventory Optimization: The system optimized inventory management through features such as dynamic bin replenishment, cycle counting, and inventory adjustments, ensuring optimal stock levels and minimizing stock outs.
- Integration with Business Central: Seamless integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ensured data synchronization between warehouse operations and other business functions, such as sales, purchasing, and finance.
Results:
The implementation of the Advanced Warehouse Facility in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central yielded significant improvements in our client’s warehouse operations:
- Increased Productivity: Automation and streamlining of warehouse processes resulted in a significant increase in productivity, with faster order processing times and reduced labor costs.
- Improved Accuracy: Barcode scanning technology and real-time inventory tracking minimized errors and discrepancies, leading to improved order accuracy and customer satisfaction.
- Enhanced Efficiency: Real-time visibility and optimization of warehouse operations improved overall efficiency, enabling them to fulfill orders faster and meet customer demands more effectively.
- Cost Savings: Reduced inventory carrying costs, lower labor expenses, and fewer order fulfillment errors resulted in cost savings for the company.
- Scalability: The Advanced Warehouse Facility in Business Central enabled it to scale its warehouse operations seamlessly to accommodate growing business needs and increased order volumes.
Conclusion:
By leveraging the Advanced Warehouse Facility in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, our client successfully overcame its warehouse management challenges and achieved significant improvements in productivity, accuracy, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. The system enabled them to optimize its warehouse operations, streamline processes, and deliver superior service to its customers, positioning the company for continued growth and success in the competitive automotive parts industry.
Why NavisionIndia?
At NavisionIndia, you can connect to skilled, acclaimed, and recognized Business Central Consultants. Notably, you can make the best of their skills, expertise in the service delivery, deep knowledge of the product, and a proven methodology to scale up warehouse operations. For the most part, you can avail of Business Central Advanced Warehouse Facility to steer automation across warehouse management and take a step ahead of your fellow businesses to lead the evolving business landscape.
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