Warehouse Setup / Bin Maintenance / Create Bin - WHS010
A bin is a physical placeholder in a warehouse where inventory should be placed or stored. It must have a precise address that would tell operators where a particular product or product group is located.
You can have various bin location types, including Bulk locations, Pickface locations, Reach Truck locations, and Receiving locations.
Bins can be created one at a time, by creating a single bin, or by doing a multiple bin import.
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The creation and configuration of Bins are located on the Main Menu under WMS Menu / Warehouse Setup / Bin Maintenance / Create Bins
Browse to the Create Bins location and click to open
The Create Bin window will appear
At the top of the screen, you will find a list of Bin Label formats that can be used to print your labels. The default FASTTRACK WMS installation has four different bin label sizes for bin locations
The four different bin label sizes are:
BinLabel_3x1.5 template
BinLabel_4x2.5 template
BinLabel_4x4 template
BinLabel_1DLetter (Large letter size) template
Note: The BinLabel_1DLetter (Large letter size) template is usually used when labels must be visible from a distance within a warehouse.
The default, selected template will be the BinLabel_3x1.5 template, but any of the available formats listed above can be selected before clicking the Create/Print button located in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen
Note: The Bin Location Arrow Direction ‘Up’ or ‘Down’ is only available with the premium installation of DATASCOPE WMS
A Bin must always be associated with a Warehouse, therefore select the associated Warehouse from the Link Bin to Warehouse drop-down
Note: There are typically four different Bin locations within a warehouse – Pick Face Bins, Bulk Bins, Reach Truck Bins and Receiving Bins. Pick Face Bins are typically the lower-level bin locations where open packs of products are stored for easy picking. These usually have a specific stock code dedicated to the bin. For more information on setting up a Pick Face Bin refer to Pickface Setup
Bulk Bins are bins located at the upper levels, containing unopened single or multiple SKU or full pallets of inventory.
Select which Type of Bin you want to create
Note: Reach Truck Bins are not used as part of the FASTTRACK WMS installation but can be configured as part of the premium version of DATASCOPE WMS.
If you select a Pickface Bin you have the option to create the bin and not print a label. You can uncheck the Do Not Print Labels check box here
The reason why you would not print a Pickface Bin label is that Pickface Bin labels usually have the stock code, which is configured to live in a Pickface Bin location, printed on the label as well. The association of the stock code to the Pickface Bin location is done within another module. You, therefore, only must print the Pickface Bin labels after the linkage has been done. For more information, refer to Pickface Setup
When creating Bulk Bins, you also have the option to create a TrackID record by selecting the Create TrackID record check box
This option exists if you want to create a TrackID with the same number as the Bulk Bin it must live in. This happens by default for a Pickface Bin, but it is an option for a Bulk Bin. This will usually be used when you have large, mobile Bins that are both a bin and a TrackID and you want the TrackID permanently linked to the location into which you can transfer inventory.
Note: The check box, Create Check Digit, is only used in the premium version of DATASCOPE WMS
The Receiving bins (Receiving/Picking/Floor) are used for already received products from Purchase Orders Receipts or Job Receipts, and therefore the products are not available for picking when in these bins until they have been transferred to other bin locations via the Put Away process (refer to the note Will not be reserved by Picking)
After you have selected your Bin Type, you can update the Bin Options
Under the Bin Options heading, you can set the Picking Sequence, Area, Zone or Number of TrackIDs
The Picking Sequence option is only available for Pickface Bins and for the picking of lot traceable stock codes on the scanner. There are three options in the drop-down: USER, FIFO (First In First Out), LIFO (Last In First Out). It dictates when the scanner should ask the user to enter the Lot Number (if set to USER) or otherwise consume the Lots in the FIFO or LIFO Sequence if selected
The Area and Zone drop-downs allow you to link the Bin location to a predefined Area or Zone. For more information regarding Areas and Zones refer to Creating Areas and Creating Zones
The Number of TrackIDs drop-down allows you to configure the maximum number of TrackIDs that will fit in the specific Bin location. A Put-Away transaction will fail if there are already this number of TrackIDs in the destination bin that you are trying to transact into
The Bin Volume field is only used in the premium version of DATASCOPE WMS
The free format, Bin Number text box at the bottom of the screen, is used to type your new bin location number into. The Bin will then be created in FASTTRACK WMS with the value that has been entered into this field. (For example 01-02-A)
This free-format text box has a maximum length of fifteen characters.
Select Create/Print to create and print your Bin Label
Note: When printing to a physical printer, you must ensure that the System Settings is configured correctly
The BINLABELING setting under Settings / Printers on the Ribbon Bar must point to the physical printer. For more information, refer to Configure Printers.
If you want to do a re-print, you can select the Create/Print button again and a reprint will occur
To delete a Bin, you can select the Delete a bin button in the bottom left corner of the screen.
A pop-up screen will appear where you can type in or browse for the Bin number to be deleted
Note: A bin cannot be deleted if there are active TrackIDs in it.
The above process explains how to create one Bin location at a time, but you also have the option to create a range of Bin locations and numbers.
Create a range of Bin locations
To create a range of Bin locations and numbers, you can use the column on the right-hand side of the screen.
Create a comma-separated list in a text document
Copy the list (by using the right-click menu on your mouse or CTRL + C on your keyboard)
Paste the list into the Bins to Print/Create column (by using the right-click menu on the screen or CTRL + V on your keyboard)
The software will automatically recognize which Bin locations are new to the system and would need to be created and which already exist and require a reprint.
Click on the Create/Print button and the Bin range in the data grid will either be created or reprinted.
Note: The settings on the left-hand side of the screen must be updated for each new Bin that is created.
Select the Clear button to clear the data grid of entries.
The option also exist to import multiple bin locations – Create Multiple Bins