[Ronald McVicar]

I am reaching out to see if anyone is using core NAV (2015) to manufacture, warehouse, sell, and RMA serialized inventory at the ITEM, CASE (serial number) and Lot (MMDDYY) with expire Date (12 months) level?

This can be a high volume of transaction detail and some systems have challenges at the Sales Order detail, some at Warehousing and some at the traceability level (lifecycle including RMA).

We make products that have to be traced this level.

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Ronald McVicar
National Steak Processors, Inc.
Owasso OK
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[David Wiser]

I have had experience in the past when working for a cheese manufacturer.  Send me a message if you want to talk.

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Dave Wiser
Controller
Beckwith & Kuffel
Seattle WA
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[Peter Lomman]

Hello Ronald

We manufacture, store and distribute lot controlled animal nutrition products across Australia. We have used the standard lot control functions, and find the traceability options useful and easy to use.
Our materials have various expiry dates on each lot, and our WH functions use a FEFO (first expiry first out) method when picking.
Expired materials cannot be picked or issued for production or sales orders.
Just as clarification, standard NAV allows either lot OR serial tracking, not both.
Serial tracking is typically for each SKU, where as Lot tracking is for a batch or lot quantity of the material.

Using Lot or Serial controls does require additional transaction detail and protocols, this is typically a compliance requirement in food and pharmaceutical industries.
In production, we are not able to pick, issue or use expired materials. The expiry date can be amended before picking if approved.
On sales orders, specific lots/serials can be allocated to a sales order line using the Item Tracking function, but this would normally happen as part of the WH picking function.

The standard NAV2015 functions are pretty robust and work well when the physical disciplines for identification, labeling and storage are adhered to.
using scan technology helps with the validations that the right lot is selected.

Regards
Peter

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I am reaching out to see if anyone is using core NAV (2015) to manufacture, warehouse, sell, and RMA serialized inventory at the ITEM, CASE (serial number) and Lot (MMDDYY) with expire Date (12 months) level?

This can be a high volume of transaction detail and some systems have challenges at the Sales Order detail, some at Warehousing and some at the traceability level (lifecycle including RMA).

We make products that have to be traced this level.

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Ronald McVicar
National Steak Processors, Inc.
Owasso OK
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[Ronald McVicar]

Peter thanks for the reply.  our SKU is case and cases (serialized numbers) are produced in lots which is also our production date. 

We often bulk pick by pallet as there might be 50 to hundreds of cases on a pallet.  This cuts down on scanning each box after stack-off (at production).  Cases get weighed at the end of production and most given a catch weight instead of a standard weight.  This scanning is held in a batch until the palletizationis complete and then the pallet number is captured with the cases; and the inventory (finished goods) are posted as inventory.  Movements are done by pallet internally and to 3 party warehousing which completes our orders.  When returned, which happens at times, the cases are turned and much match the original outbound documents for a return / credit, etc. or if damaged, etc.

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Ronald McVicar
National Steak Processors, Inc.
Owasso OK
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[Ron Ketterling]

DMS, now InsightWorks, out of Canada might be able to help you. They have pallets in their WMS addon that will track all the items on the pallet and move them together.

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Ron Ketterling
President
Business Automation Specialists of MN, Inc.
Minneapolis MN
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[Ronald McVicar]

thanks for the reply. We are hoping our VAR comes through 1st.

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Ronald McVicar
National Steak Processors, Inc.
Owasso OK
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