Inventory reservation is the process of setting aside a specific quantity of items for particular sales orders to avoid using that inventory for other orders. Business Central allows you to reserve items for specific demand types, such as sales, outbound transfer, assembly and production orders. You can reserve items that are in your inventory or that are expected to arrive via a purchase or a transfer order. Also, you can reserve stock for sales, taking from planned producti

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