Background info
Until now we ‘mis used’ warehouses as locations. We only have one physical production location, with a couple of storage areas, and every area was a seperate warehouse so we could find our items.
This doesn’t work so well these days. If a warehouse workes moves an item between storage area to clean up some space, the MRP sees a shortage in one warehouse and wants us to produce items, even though there are plenty of items a few meters away, but it’s another warehouse.
So, we want to get rid of all these warehouses (about 10) and make just one big warehouse with aisles, racks and shelves.
The question
Currently we only have one location, several warehouses. Each warehouse only has location ‘123’. So the default receipt location is 123, the default issue location is 123. We want to create an issue location (OUT_1) and an receipt location (IN_1). This will be the location where trucks are loaded. It seems to be the same setup as the example company in AX (Contoso).
The problem
Items are stocked in different locations (of course). Suppose that item 1001 is stored in A-01-01-01. The default issue location is OUT_1 for warehouse A. When a sales order is created for 10pcs 1001, and a packing list is created, OUT_1 is listed for the location of item 1001. But the warehouse worker must go to A-01-01-01 for the item, instead for OUT_1. When I open Net Requirements, there’s also a demand for 10 pcs 1001 at location OUT_1, but the items are stored at A-01-01-01 with plenty of stock.
How can we achieve that the warehouse worker is directed to A-01-01-01? Do we have to override the default issue location PER item? That would be a lot of work.
Currently my plan is to change all site specific settings for every item to our new warehouse (Purchasing: A, Inventory: A and Sales: A), change all planning setting to warehouse A, and we have someone to change all open orders from the old warehouse to the new warehouse (or I have to create a job that changes all warehouse settings in open orders).
Advice
Can someone shine a light on this? Is it best practice to override issue settings per location? That would mean that if a warehouse worker decides to change the location of an item, we have to update those default settings and open purchasing, production and sales orders to the new location, is that right? Seems a lot of work to me.