If you want to measure cubage and weight on items for storage purposes in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you must have the Warehouse Management granule (4620) to use for this functionality. You can use the
Item Units of Measure dialog box. To open the
Item Units of Measure dialog box, click the lookup button in the
Base Unit of Measure field in the
Item Card dialog box. In the
Item Units of Measure dialog box, there are fields that can be displayed to help with the physical dimensions of an item. For example, you can show the
Height field, the
Width field, the
Length field, the
Cubage field and the
Weight field for an item. In order to show these fields, you can right-click the header in the
Item Units of Measure dialog box, and then click
Show column.
For example, if you have an "Item Unit of Measure" value of "PCS" and type 10 in the
Height field, the
Width field and the
Length field, the
Cubage field will automatically calculate value to be 1000. You can enter the weight individually for each unit of measure. As soon as you have the cubage calculated on the items, Microsoft Dynamics NAV use the maximum cubage for the Bin to compare and then make sure that too many items are not put away into the Bin.
In this example, we assume that the empty Bin has a maximum cubage of 1,500. When I try to enter a quantity of 2 into the warehouse journal, you receive the following message:
Cubage to place (2000) exceeds the available capacity (1500) on Bin (Bin Number). Do you still want to use this Bin?
If you click
Yes and then try to register this document, you will receive a message that states that you cannot register the document because of the exceeding of the maximum cubage that is assigned to the Bin.
Note Realize the degree that your Bins limits are respected is controlled by the
Bin Capacity Policy field in the location card.