Place items and containers
This workflow shows you how to store items or containers into locations of a storage. Use it for incoming goods or whenever stock needs to be put away.
Role: Operator
Prerequisites
- Placing containers requires container tracking to be enabled — see General settings.
- The item or container is known to oneGRID — see Manage items. When no external system is connected, an unknown item can also be created during placing.
Steps
Place an item
- On the Main Menu, click Place and choose Item. You can also use Place Item in the three-dots menu of the top bar.
- If oneGRID asks for it, select the storage.
- Scan the item, or enter its item number, and set the amount. When lot number tracking is enabled, you can also enter or scan the Lot number of the stock.
- If the item does not exist in oneGRID yet and no external system is connected, the Create new item? dialog opens. Click Create to create the item and continue placing.
- Place the item into the location indicated by the LED guidance and confirm the placement according to the storage settings.
A lot number that differs only in upper- and lower-case counts as the same lot: placing lot abc on a location that holds lot ABC of the item adds to that placement.
Overwrite a location
Tick Overwrite to replace what a location holds with the item you are placing. With Overwrite ticked, scanning a location opens the dialog Do you want to overwrite current placement? when:
- the location holds another item — also when every location of the storage is already taken by another item,
- the location holds the item with another lot number,
- the location carries more than one container — the dialog appears after you have chosen the container.
The dialog lists every placement the overwrite removes, with its amount and unit, or Untracked for a location whose mode does not track amounts: Overwriting location '{0}' removes all its current placements ({1}) and places {2}. Do you want to continue? Confirming clears the whole location — every container on it, also when you confirmed by scanning a container — and places the item.
Place a container
- On the Main Menu, click Place and choose Container. You can also use Place container in the three-dots menu.
- Scan the container.
- Place the container into the indicated location and confirm the placement.
Result
The stock of the item, or the container, is recorded on the target location and appears in Inventory Management.
If something goes wrong
| Problem | See |
|---|---|
| Container cannot be selected on the Place page | Container tracking is disabled — see General settings |
| The Place tile is not visible | A feature is not visible |
| The app shows an error message you do not recognise | Error messages |