System Values - Stock - Warehousing
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The Warehouse settings control how Khaos Control handles stock adjustments, packaging, warehouse locations, unbuilding and packing. Use these options to tailor warehouse processing to your business requirements.
Warning: Changing these settings may cause unforeseen issues. If you are unsure about the effect of a change, check with the Khaos Control Support Team before continuing.
Structured Adjustment Reasons
Default: Unticked
This setting controls how users enter a reason when making a stock adjustment.
- Ticked: Users must select a predefined adjustment reason from a drop-down list before they can save the adjustment. Configure the available reasons in[ System Data | Stock | Adjustment Reasons ].
- Unticked: Users can enter a free-text reason when making an adjustment in[ Stock | Detail | Adjustments ].
Default packaging
Default: Empty
Use Default packaging to specify the packaging item Khaos Control should use when automatically packing an order.
The default packaging item is used by:
- Auto Pack in the Packing stage of the Sales Invoice Manager.
- Handheld Terminals (HHTs).
Set up a packaging item
Before you can select an item as the default packaging:
- Create the required stock item.
- Set its Level 1 and Level 2 Stock Type to Packaging.
- Go to[ Stock | Detail | Options ].
- Tick Packaging Item.
- You can then select the item from the Default Packaging drop-down.
When you use Auto Pack in the Pack Boxes dialogue, Khaos Control uses the packaging item configured here.
If a particular stock item requires different packaging, you can link the stock item to its packaging in:
[ System Data | Link Stock/Packaging ]
For more information, see Link Stock with Packaging.
Important points about default packaging
- Only stock items with Packaging Item ticked in[ Stock | Detail | Options ] appear in the Default Packaging drop-down.
- If a packaging item has been specifically linked to a stock item using Link Stock/Packaging, that packaging takes priority over the default packaging setting. For more information, see Link Stock with Packaging.
- You may need to enable the Packing stage before you can use it. See Sales Invoice Manager - Edit Process Path for more information.
- When using Handheld Terminals (HHTs), this setting provides the default packaging item for batch picking when no other packaging item has been defined. The default must therefore be configured when using this process. See How To: Setup Packaging Options for more information.
Show Zero Quantity Locations
Default: Unticked
This setting controls which warehouse locations are displayed in the GRN location lookup and the Warehouse To grid in the Perform Location Movements dialogue.
- Ticked:
- The GRN location lookup also displays empty locations that are linked to the stock item.
- The Warehouse To grid displays only empty locations where no stock item is linked.
- Unticked:
- The GRN location lookup only displays locations where the stock item is linked and has a non-zero quantity.
- The Warehouse To grid displays all locations in the warehouse.
Unbuild to Primary Pick
Default: Unticked
This setting determines where child items are placed when you unbuild a parent stock item.
- Ticked: Khaos Control assigns the child items to a Primary Pick (PP) location. If more than one PP location exists, the first location in the list is used. If no PP location exists, the items are assigned to the ARRIVALS location.
- Unticked: Child items are assigned to the ARRIVALS location.
For more information about the unbuild process, see How To: Unbuild Stock Items using Warehouse Control.
Packing scan assumes full qty
Default: Unticked
This setting controls the quantity Khaos Control packs when you scan a stock item or enter its barcode in the Pack Boxes dialogue.
- Ticked: The user can choose whether to pack a single item or the full outstanding quantity. If the quantity field is blank or set to
0, scanning the item packs its full quantity. - Unticked: The quantity defaults to
1, so one unit is moved into the packed quantity when the item is scanned. If the quantity is changed to0, nothing happens.
For further information about this option, see Packing scan assumes full qty.
Note: New Khaos Control systems are normally supplied with the default values shown in this article.