Moving inventory on the mobile app

With Inventory moves you move a container, with everything in it, from its current bin location to another bin location. It takes two scans: the container and the destination. Use it for put-away after receiving, for reorganising the warehouse, or for moving a pallet from bulk storage to a picking location.

The mobile app moves whole containers. To move loose units, part of a container, or to move inventory between locations, use the desktop application, see Moving inventory.

Who can move inventory

Every user with a warehouse role (admins, warehouse associates, pickers, replenishers, packers and so on). Account owners can't. Open it with Inventory moves in the side menu.

The Inventory moves screen

The screen says Scan a container and a destination bin location and shows three rows:

Row	Shows
Container	The scanned container, or Scan container.
From bin location	The bin location the container is on now (filled in automatically), or -.
To bin location	The scanned destination bin location, or Scan destination.

After you scan a container, the Contents of the container are shown below: one row per product (product number and name) with the quantity, and the total number of items. An empty container shows This container is empty.

Step by step

1. Open Inventory moves from the side menu.
2. Scan the container. Its name appears in the Container row, its current bin location in From bin location, and its contents below. Check that this is the container you want to move.
3. Take the container to its new place.
4. Scan the destination bin location. It appears in To bin location.
5. Tap Move. The button is only active when both a container and a destination are scanned.

The message Inventory moved confirms the move and the screen is cleared for the next move.

You can scan in either order: Boxture recognises whether a barcode is a container or a bin location. Scanning another container replaces the container; scanning another bin location replaces the destination. When the barcode is neither, you see ... is not a known container or bin location.

What happens when you move a container

When you tap Move, Boxture:

1. puts the container on the destination bin location. When the container was inside another container (for example a box on a pallet), it is taken out of that container;
2. releases pick list lines that were waiting for this container to be replenished, so they can be picked from the new bin location;
3. when the container is moved from a non-picking bin location to a picking bin location, tries to allocate the stock to orders that are still pending or on backorder (see Allocation).

Every move is logged, so it can be traced in the inventory history in the desktop application (see Inventory items).

Common messages

Message	What to do
... is not a known container or bin location	The barcode is not a container or a bin location you have access to. Check the label.
Please scan the container	Scan the container before tapping Move.
Please scan the destination bin location	Scan the destination before tapping Move.
Move failed	The move was refused; the message shows the reason. Fix it, or ask a supervisor.

Checking a bin location first

Not sure what is on the destination bin location? Use the Information scan on the Picking dashboard to see the containers on a bin location before you move something there.