Advanced Bin / Numbered Inventory Management

If you enable the Advanced Bin / Numbered Inventory Management feature, it provides an enhanced version of tracking inventory in bins. If you use the Lot Tracking and Serialized Inventory features, it includes bin tracking for serial and lot numbered items, respectively. For regular and numbered items, you can enable bin tracking on a per-location basis.

The Advanced Bin / Numbered Inventory Management feature includes functionality that is not available in the basic Bin Management feature. For more information, see Bin Management.

Advanced Bin Management Setup

To set up advanced Bin Management, complete the procedures in the following topics:

1. Enable the following features: Bin Management and Advanced Bin/Numbered InventoryManagement feature. See Enabling Bin Management Features.

2. Optionally, you can set bin preferences. See Setting Bin Preferences.

3. If you use Multi-Location Inventory, set the Use Bins setting per location. See Enabling Bin Management by Location.

4. Add bins and assign each to a location that uses bins. See Creating Bin Records.

5. Enable the Use Bins setting for regular, lot, or serialized items that you track in bins. Optionally, you can also specify a preferred bin. See Setting Up Item Records for Bins.

6. If you have items, including lot or serial numbered types, with existing transactions or quantities, you can assign them to bins using the advanced Bin Put-Away Worksheet. See Updating Bin Putaway Worksheets.

For information about using SuiteScript with this feature, see SuiteScript Overview.

For information about using SOAP web services code with this feature, see Updating SOAP Web Services Code When Advanced Bin / Numbered Inventory Management is Enabled

No Pre-association Requirement

Use bins on transactions without being required to pre-associate bins to items. This lets you put away items using the Bin Put-Away Worksheet, even if bins are not associated with those items.

• The Bin Management feature requires you to associate a bin with the item on the item record. You must do this to select the bin for that item on transactions.

• The Advanced Bin / Numbered Inventory Management feature lets you use any bin for any item. You do not have to identify the bin on the item's record. However, you can associate bins with any item on the item record. Then, those bins show in the Associated bins list on transactions. You can also set a preferred bin for an item.

Use Bins for Serialized and Lot Numbered Items

When you also use the Lot Tracking or Serialized Inventory features, you can assign bins to serial numbered items and lot numbered items. To set one these bins as your preferred bin, see Lot, Serial, and Bin Numbering.

If you use basic Bin Management, you cannot associate serial or lot items with bins.

Use Bins on a Per-Location Basis

When you also enable the Multi-Location Inventory feature, you can use bins at only specific locations. For example, you can set warehouse and store locations to use bins to track inventory. You can also choose to not use the Advanced Bin Management functionality at your head office location.

If you use basic Bin Management, you cannot use bins on a per-location basis.

For more information, see Bin Management by Location.

Subtabs Available

Depending on the item type, item records show the following subtabs on which you can track on hand and available quantities:

• Inventory Detail – For items that use bins, this subtab shows the quantities for inventory numbers within each bin.

  Note:

  To display the inventory numbers on hand, you can select Inventory Numbers on Hand in the View field. Items that you do not put away are not included in the on-hand count at the bin level.

• Bin Numbers – Shows the quantities for each bin

• Inventory Numbers – Shows the quantities for each inventory number within a location

Inventory Detail Subrecord

On the Inventory Detail subtab of item records, you can view quantities for bins, lot numbers, serial numbers, and inventory statuses. On transactions or records, you can click the Inventory Detail icon to filter the bins list, choose a bin, and enter a quantity. For more information, see Entering Inventory Details on Transactions or Records.

Permissions for the inventory detail subrecord are inherited from its parent transaction. For example, to edit the inventory detail from a sales order, you must have permission to edit the sales order. For more information, see Standard Roles Permissions Table.

General Notices