Strengthening warehouse controls from receipt to dispatch

An international chemical distributor with global operations, working with logistics partners to move stock between suppliers, warehouses and customers.

Warehouse staff manually chose put-away locations, reserved stock and released orders. The assessment also found gaps in quality holds, batch capture and inventory counting.

• Mapped receiving, put-away, reservation, warehouse release, picking and cycle counting with operations teams.
• Implemented agreed receiving and quality-blocking rules, inventory statuses, location directives and work templates.
• Configured first-expiry-first-out reservation and release rules to account for stock availability and requested ship dates, then tested the agreed scenarios.
• Enabled mobile batch capture and cycle counting and documented the operating procedures for warehouse staff.

• Went live with the agreed warehouse controls in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.
• Introduced system-directed put-away, stock holds and batch capture for the agreed receiving and picking scenarios.
• Enabled rule-based reservation and release and mobile inventory counting, reducing dependence on manual decisions in the workflows covered.