Warehouse location capacity

Depending on the setup in the Warehouse - Location - Capacity (whwmd3101s000) session, a location's available capacity is based on the floor space, weight and/or height specified for the location minus the total floor space, weight and/or height of the items stored in the locations.

Receipts into and issues from the location affect the location's capacity. Inbound advice that exceed the available capacity are not allowed if the Block check box is selected. A warning is displayed if you manually create inbound advice that exceeds the percentage specified in the Warning at field.

Handling units

If handling units are used for which packaging items have been defined, the dimensions of the packaging items of the handling units are used to calculate the available capacities of the locations as follows:

  • Volume

    The Internal packaging items of the top level handling units determine the location space occupied by the handling unit. If the handling unit's packaging item is External, the volume of the packaging item plus the volume of the items stacked on top of the packaging item determine the location space occupied by the handling unit.

    If the handling unit structure consists of an External packaging item and various Internal packaging items, the added volumes of the internal and external packaging items determine the location space occupied by the top level handling unit of the structure. For example, in case the external packaging item is a pallet and the internal packaging items are boxes.

  • Floor Space
    The floor space of the packaging items of the top level handling units determine the location space occupied by the handling unit.
  • Weight
    The total weight of the items and the packaging items of the handling unit determine how much of the location's weight capacity is taken up by the handling unit.
Note

If handling units are used without packaging items or auxiliary packaging items, the handling units do not affect the location capacity.

Recalculation of location capacity - handling units

LN recalculates the location capacity if you:

  • Close handling units stored in the location.
  • Manually add packaging items to handling units stored in the location.
  • Use the Pack option in the Compose Handling Units (whwmd5130m100) to add packaging items to handling units stored in the location.
  • Manually adjust the dimensions of handling units stored in a location.
  • Adjust the parent - child relations of a handling unit structure that contains packaging items. For example, if you take a few handling units of type Box from a handling unit of type Pallet and remove the Boxes from the location.

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