How to receive items using basic, advanced or no WMS. This article is a complete guide on how to receive items in Business Central. During my work as a supply chain consultant first and now as a Business Central consultant, I have helped many companies redesign their inbound processes. One of the first topics I discuss with my clients is how they receive items. Unlike other ERPs where there are set processes to receive items, there are many ways to receive items in Business C

Landed costs are all the expenses incurred by a company to make its products available to its buyers. In Business Central, landed costs...

Customers are the core source of a company's income. In this article, I will describe everything you need to know to register new customers in Business Central. Setup Required Before registering new customers in Business Central, we must check a few things on setup and configuration. The two most important are the customer numbers and customer templates. Customer Numbers First of all, we need the number series for new customers. The field is the Customers Nos. in the Sales &

Achieve complete traceability using Lot Numbers in Business Central. In this guide, I will cover the end-to-end process of creating,...

FEFO stands for first expire, first out, and it's a picking policy that allows Business Central to automatically select items with an early

How to manage customers' consignment stock in Business Central

Picking by shipping agents means we arrange picking activities depending on the courier or carrier for orders or transfers.

In this post, I wrote about milk runs and how to use bin ranking to optimize picking activities in Business Central. Today, I want to highlight a risk you will face if the bin setup is not done correctly—the risk of losing optimal stock rotation. What is stock rotation, and why it's important Rotating stock means arranging the oldest items in the warehouse so they are sold before the newest. We rotate stock to reduce losses from deterioration and obsolescence. How to set up

Replenishing bins is critical to rotating stock efficiently, and you can do it using the movement worksheet in Business Central. This functionality helps users create and manage rules to replenish bins so stock can rotate efficiently. In a previous post, I wrote about using bin ranking to optimise stock rotation in Business Central. Today, I will explain how the replenishment engine moves stock from storage into pickface bins. What is a Pickface bin? A Pickface - also called