Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Warehouse Management

Business Central Core Function

Improve warehouse visibility and create more efficient processes from receiving and put-away through to picking and shipping.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central connects warehouse operations with inventory, purchasing, sales, manufacturing and finance, giving your teams a common business platform for managing the movement of goods.

Business Central warehouse functionality includes bins, warehouse shipments, inventory picks and movement worksheets, with different configuration options available to match the complexity of your warehouse processes.

Bring incoming goods under control

Connect incoming stock with your wider purchasing and inventory processes.

Depending on how your warehouse is configured, Business Central can support receiving through purchase orders or dedicated Warehouse Receipt processes. More advanced configurations can combine receiving with separate put-away activities.

This creates a more structured flow:

Purchase → Receive → Put Away → Inventory

For warehouses managing stock across shelves, racks and storage areas, visibility of the physical location of inventory becomes increasingly important.

Business Central warehouse functionality supports bins, allowing warehouse processes to incorporate item placement within a location.

A structured bin environment provides the foundation for more organised receiving, put-away, movement and picking processes.

For more demanding warehouse environments, Business Central supports Directed Put-away and Pick.

This enables more advanced warehouse processes, including consolidated receive/ship posting and consolidated pick/put-away activities across multiple source documents.

Put-away templates can also be used to help determine suitable bins for inventory.

This gives growing distributors and manufacturers a pathway from relatively straightforward warehouse processes into a more controlled warehouse environment.

Inventory doesn't remain static after it has been received and put away.

Business Central includes functionality for handling inventory movement within warehouse processes, including inventory movements and movement worksheets depending on the warehouse configuration.

This helps maintain a connection between the physical movement of goods and the inventory information held in Business Central.

The outbound warehouse process brings inventory management and sales fulfilment together.

Business Central can support outbound processes using sales orders and inventory picks in simpler environments, while more advanced warehouse configurations can use Warehouse Shipments together with separate warehouse picking activities.

This creates a connected flow:

Sales Order → Pick → Ship → Customer

Barcode technology can help connect physical inventory handling with your Business Central environment.

Business Central itself provides native barcode-scanning capabilities through its mobile application and AL, supporting compatible mobile-device cameras and dedicated Android-scanner scenarios.

For more advanced warehouse scanning requirements, ERP365 can combine Business Central with specialist mobile warehouse solutions.

Warehouse operations happen where your products are being received, stored, moved, picked, counted and shipped.

ERP365 can extend Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with specialist mobile warehouse solutions that put barcode-driven Business Central processes into the hands of your warehouse team.

Whether you're looking to eliminate paper-based processes, improve inventory accuracy or introduce more advanced warehouse workflows, ERP365 can help you select a solution suited to your operation.

Tasklet Mobile WMS is a mobile warehouse management solution designed specifically for organisations using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

It connects warehouse workers with Business Central through mobile devices and barcode scanning, with transactions synchronised with the ERP. It also supports online and offline operation, which can be valuable in warehouse environments where connectivity is inconsistent.

Work even when connectivity is limited

One of Tasklet Mobile WMS's particularly useful differentiators is its offline capability, allowing warehouse processes to continue in areas with limited connectivity.

Warehouse Insight from Insight Works brings mobile barcode scanning and warehouse management directly into the Business Central environment.

Warehouse transactions can post directly into Business Central in real time, with Insight Works describing the solution as operating without a separate database or middleware.

For more advanced warehouse operations, Warehouse Insight Advanced WMS also supports capabilities including directed warehouse picks, tote, wave and batch picking, licence plating, FIFO/FEFO lot picking and advanced inventory counting.

Every warehouse operates differently. ERP365 can help you assess Tasklet Mobile WMS and Warehouse Insight alongside your standard Business Central warehouse processes to determine which approach best fits your requirements.

One of Business Central's strengths is that warehouse management doesn't have to be implemented at maximum complexity from day one.

Your warehouse requirements can change as order volumes grow, product ranges expand and operational processes become more complex.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central supports different levels of warehouse configuration, from relatively straightforward inventory and warehouse activities through to more advanced receiving, put-away, picking and shipping processes.

ERP365 can help you build around the level of control your warehouse needs today, with options to extend your Business Central environment as those requirements develop.

Start with standard Business Central Warehouse Management, introduce barcode-enabled processes where appropriate, and extend further with solutions such as Tasklet Mobile WMS or Warehouse Insight by Insight Works when you need more specialised mobile warehouse functionality.

Warehouse management and inventory management are closely related, but they're not the same thing.

Inventory management gives your organisation visibility and control over stock.

Warehouse management controls how that inventory is physically received, stored, moved, picked and shipped.

Business Central brings these areas together within the same ERP environment.

For manufacturers, warehouse activity doesn't stop at purchasing and customer shipments.

Materials also need to flow towards production while finished products need to return into inventory.

Business Central's warehouse configurations can support processes associated with production alongside purchasing, sales, service, transfers, assembly and projects.

This makes warehouse management an important connection point between your inventory and manufacturing operations.

Business Central Warehouse Management may be a good fit if you need to:

Talk to ERP365 about designing a warehouse management solution that matches your operational requirements today and can extend into mobile scanning and more advanced WMS processes as your business grows.