In a directed put away and pick location, also called advanced warehousing, Business Central requires you to use the warehouse physical inventory journal in addition to the item journal, which adds work and friction to a count. Advanced Inventory Count removes that friction by populating both the warehouse physical inventory journal and the physical inventory journal for you, including lot and serial detail, so you do not run a separate warehouse adjustment step.
The native challenge with advanced warehousing
When directed put away and pick is enabled, counts cannot post through the item journal alone. The standard process has you record counts in the warehouse physical inventory journal and then calculate a warehouse adjustment that flows into the item journal. That extra journal and extra step are a common source of confusion and rework, and the cycle counting date fields are not maintained automatically in this mode either.
How Advanced Inventory Count simplifies it
Advanced Inventory Count treats every location configuration the same from the user’s point of view. You work with count sheets and reconcile differences without worrying about which journals are involved on the back end. When you copy the count to the journals, the module populates the warehouse physical inventory journal and the physical inventory journal together. You post the physical inventory journal and the warehouse physical inventory journal, and you do not have to run the manual calculate warehouse adjustment that the native process requires. The module also creates the physical inventory ledger entries that support cycle counting history, which the native directed put away and pick flow does not set on its own.
Lot tracking in an advanced warehouse
The same count can include lot tracked items in a directed put away and pick location. Where warehouse tracking tells the system which lot or serial numbers belong in which bin, Advanced Inventory Count brings that detail onto the sheet and reconciles at the lot and serial level. When you copy to the journals, it adds the required item tracking lines and creates reclassification entries when a lot or serial number needs to convert rather than adjust. That means a warehouse using lot numbers for expiry dates and counting on the warehouse physical inventory journal is fully supported.
Related Tools
Advanced Inventory Count manages counts across all location configurations, populates both the physical inventory journal and the warehouse physical inventory journal, and handles lot and serial reconciliation in advanced warehousing. Warehouse Insight extends these directed location counts to handheld devices.
Conclusion
Directed put away and pick normally forces an extra journal and a manual warehouse adjustment. Advanced Inventory Count populates both journals automatically and handles lot and serial detail, so counting an advanced warehouse, including lot tracked items on the warehouse physical inventory journal, follows the same straightforward process as any other location.