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Put-Away is the process of placing the finished products that come out of the Work Order into your inventory. This is represented in the Put Away tab of a Work Order.

Many businesses won’t need to worry about using the Put Away tab of a Work Order, since clicking the Complete button on the Order tab will automatically suggest places to put the finished products into. However, the Put Away tab allows you to specify exactly where you’d like to put the finished products.

The main part of the put-away tab is a table where you’d like to put away the raw materials when the Work Order is completed. It has the following columns:

Item - The item name/code of the finished product.

Description - This is a text description of the product or service being ordered. This field will be shown only if Show Product Description is set in the Settings. This will default to the description from the product information, but can be changed here.

Quantity - This is the quantity of the item being put away to the location. This will default to the remaining expected to be put away, or 1 if no more is expected. All quantities use Standard UoM.

Location - Put away all finished products into the location specified for the Work Order or the default location for that product.

Sublocation - The inventory sublocation (e.g. aisle number) into which this item is put away. This column may be hidden depending on the Company Settings.

A green light will be shown on the Put Away tab if all the items are correctly picked to fulfill the raw material needs of the order. A yellow light will be shown if the Put Away tab is empty, and a red light if it’s incomplete.

The Remarks field can be filled in with any remarks that you would like to show up on the printed Put-Away List document, such as inventory handling instructions.

The Total Finished Product Quantities shows you the total quantity of finished products expected to be picked for this Work Order. This number is measured in the standard stock-keeping units for each item involved.

The Total Put-Away Quantities shows you the total quantity that has been specified to be put away, measured in the standard stock-keeping units for each item involved. This allows you to quickly compare what you’ve entered to put away (Total Put-Away Quantities) with the total output of the Work Order (Total Finished Product Quantities).

The items specified in the Put Away will update the inventory when the Work Order is completed.

Auto Fill

The Auto Fill button helps give an intelligent suggestion on how the finished products could be put away, based on the contents of the order. It will not modify or delete any of the existing lines in the put-away table.

This function will put away all finished products into the location specified for the Work Order, or the default location for that product using the Standard UoM.