When you post an inventory put-away in Business Central, you also post the receipt on the underlying purchase order. This walkthrough shows exactly what happens behind the scenes when you handle a put-away on a location set up for put-away without receive.
Inventory put-aways apply to locations that have the checkmark in Require Put-away but no checkmark in Require Receive. This is a simpler warehouse flow than the full receive-and-put-away process, and it still lets you work with bin codes.
When you post the inventory put-away and choose to receive only, Business Central posts both the put-away and the receipt on the purchase order in one step. The quantity received is then filled in on the purchase order, and a posted purchase receipt is created automatically.
How inventory put-away locations are set up
Inventory put-aways are used on locations where you have ticked Require Put-away but left Require Receive unticked. In this scenario the location also has bin codes added, so you can specify where the goods are placed when you handle the put-away.
The state of the purchase order before posting
In this example the purchase order has a quantity to receive of three and twenty-two, and nothing has been received yet. If you look at the purchase order through the navigation view, you can see that there are no entries posted yet on the document.
Handling the inventory put-away
The inventory put-away has already been created from the purchase order. From the put-away lines you can navigate into the document itself, where the quantity to handle and the bin codes are already filled in.
From here you only need to post the inventory put-away. In this case you post the receive without posting the invoice.
What gets posted when you post the put-away
When you post the inventory put-away, Business Central posts both the put-away and the receipt on the purchase order. After posting, the quantity received is filled in on the purchase order.
If you then navigate into the receipt, you can see that posting the put-away document also created a posted purchase receipt. So a single posting action takes care of both the warehouse put-away and the purchase receipt.
Q&A
When do you use inventory put-aways in Business Central?
You use inventory put-aways on locations that have Require Put-away ticked but Require Receive unticked. This gives you a simpler warehouse flow where you still can work with bin codes.
What happens when you post an inventory put-away?
When you post the inventory put-away and choose to receive, Business Central posts both the put-away and the receipt on the purchase order. The quantity received is filled in on the purchase order, and a posted purchase receipt is created automatically.
Does posting an inventory put-away also post the invoice?
No. You can post only the receive when you post the put-away, leaving the invoicing to be posted separately later.