Receiving Shipments to Different Bins With the Barcode Scanner

If you decide to have more granular spaces with your warehouse to provide more visibility, Finale makes the process receiving shipments to different bins, pallets, or other locations simple and streamlined.

Bar code scanning is an easy way to track your business inventory or even keep tabs on inventory.  This video illustrates end-to-end the process of receiving shipments to different bins, locations, or other designated areas of your warehouse.

Video Transcription

Hello everyone, Zach here with Finale Inventory and today we're going to cover a common receiving workflow where we want to receive all of our products directly to our receiving dock and then transfer them later to our individual bin locations. So, working today, we're going to use um purchase order 100014. We've got three items here to receive. So, let's go ahead and log into our scanner and start off by syncing just to make sure we have the most up-to-date information.

Great. Now, we're going to head to option three for receive and we will scan in our order ID. And now, we need to select our subloation. If you have a barcode for your receiving dock, you can go ahead and scan that or you can select it from the list. And then we can start scanning in our items. So, first we're going to scan in a-1000. And we have 20 units of that. Then we're going to scan in A-102. And again, we're receiving 20 units. And then finally, A-101.

And again, we have 20 units. That's everything that we have. So, we can go ahead and exit back to the main menu. and sync that receipt in.

Now later in the day once we are ready to go ahead and transfer that into the individual bin locations we are going to go down to option six for transfer and we will use the quick putaway function to transfer these into their individual bin locations. So, we're going to start by selecting the item that we want to transfer and the quantity. Again, we're doing 20 units.

And then it's going to ask for the from location. So, again, this is going to be our dock. And we're going to go ahead and move over to location A01 and scan that location in.

Next, we'll go back and grab our next item. So, again, we will scan now a-1

and select 20 units.

And again, we're going to choose our from location. So, we can either click or scan the dock. And then we will head over to location A A01 one more time and we'll receive it into AA01. And now we'll go back for our last item. So we're going to scan A102 at our receiving dock. And then we are going to choose 20 units of this as well.

So now we are going to go ahead and once again scan the dock and then we will head over to location A02 now since location A01 is full and we'll scan that sub location in and now all of our units have been transferred. If we had other receipts that we need to transfer into bin locations we could of course do that as well. Otherwise we'll head to the main menu and sync our scanner.

And now if we head back to our finale web application, we can see our receipt here. And once again, you'll see that we have received all of these initially to the receiving doc. But if we look at our stock transfers and transfer shipments, we'll also see a transfer shipment that is now moving all those goods from the dot into their respective bin locations. We hope this has been helpful and if you have any additional questions on this or any other topic, please feel free to reach out to us at servicefinaleinventory.com or check out our other useful help articles and videos. Have a great day.