Using full WMS Locations allows creating Warehouse Picks as a pull strategy from a Pick Worksheet

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When you work with full Warehouse Management System (WMS) locations in Business Central, you have two ways to create warehouse picks for production orders. You can create the pick directly from the production order as a push strategy. Or you can use the pick worksheet to fetch the production order as a pull strategy.

A full WMS location is one where the location card has the checkmark in Directed Put-away and Pick. On these locations the warehouse request is created automatically when you fetch the production order into the pick worksheet.

The pick worksheet lets you adjust the quantities before you create the warehouse pick. Both methods give you a warehouse pick for the production order. The difference is whether you start from the production order itself or from the worksheet.

Creating warehouse picks on a full WMS location in Business Central

On a location with full WMS, the location card has a checkmark in Directed Put-away and Pick. This setting enables the advanced warehouse functionality and gives you more than one way to handle picking for your production orders.

With this functionality in place, you can create warehouse picks for a production order in two different ways. The first is a push strategy, where you start from the production order. The second is a pull strategy, where you start from the pick worksheet.

Push strategy: creating a warehouse pick from the production order

The push strategy is what most people reach for first. You create the warehouse pick directly from the production order. This works on advanced WMS locations, and it is a quick way to get the pick out the door when the production order is your starting point.

If you need to change your approach, you can delete the pick you created from the production order and handle the picking another way instead.

Pull strategy: creating a warehouse pick from the pick worksheet

The alternative is to work from the pick worksheet. On a Directed Put-away and Pick location, you open the pick worksheet and fetch the production order through the warehouse document. Because it is a WMS location, the system has already created the warehouse request automatically, so the document is ready for you to pull in.

From the worksheet you can then create the warehouse pick for the production order. You can also adjust the quantities in the worksheet before you create the pick, which gives you a bit more control than the direct method.

Both strategies end with the same result: a warehouse pick tied to your production order. Which one you choose depends on whether you prefer to drive the process from the production order or from the worksheet.

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