For items not requiring inspection, can the receipt generate a material queue put-away to move from “Receiving” bin to it’s To Location?
With the To Location setting in use, the receipt puts parts in that bin immediately, even though physically they sit at the dock in our Receiving area. The PUR-STK is already putting the material away.
Thank you,
I believe the PUR-STK Material Queue requests are created automatically by the system upon receipt, at least they used to be in 10.2.4. I am unaware of any way beyond BPM to modify the creation of these requests. We created a BPM to delete them as we do not use them.
The people processing the move requests can change the to location when they perform the move.
I always thought so too, my problem in past versions was opposite - all those unused move requests!
I wonder if using the To Location interferes with this.
If you update the bin location on the receiver then it puts it there. If you leave it in the default receiving location, then the pur-stk transaction automatically created would be the put away location.
Thanks Lindsay, I’m trying to get it to create a move request and have the stock person receive material queue entry on EKW handheld and know to move the material from Receiving bin to wherever it goes. But I don’t think I can get that with default behavior.
The EKW handheld has other settings that modify these behaviors. I’d start in Epicor proper and see if the transaction you are expecting shows up there in your test environment.
If it’s working there as you expect, then I would check the shipping / receiving settings in EKW as well as some of the other options. There are a ton of settings and they can change what is seen in the handheld for the material queue.
Using “To Location” whether in EKW or on the computer will bypass the creation of a material queue record. If you don’t select “to location”, the system will look for the default receiving bin (set on site config) and put the parts in there. When you hit “to location”, the system looks first for the primary bin and if no primary bin is found, it will begin going through a hierarchy of logic on bins. If you’re using the handheld, then there is a setting to by default “Assign Location” which will bypass the material queue and automatically select the bin following the same epicor logic.