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I’m facing an issue while running the Assemble-to-Order (ATO) process in Business Central with warehouse handling enabled.

🔹 My Setup:

Location:
- Require Receive = ✔️
- Require Put-away = ✔️
- Require Pick = ✔️
- Require Shipment = ✔️
- Directed Put-away & Pick = ❌ (Disabled)
- Bin Mandatory = ✔️
Assembly Consumption Whse. Handling = Warehouse Pick (mandatory)
Using bins (CROSS DOCK bin is assigned on assembly lines)

🔹 Scenario:

I purchased the component item.
Posted the Purchase Receipt.
Created a Sales Order for the parent item (Assembly Policy = Assemble-to-Order).
Assembly Order is created automatically.
When I open the Assembly Order and click Create Warehouse Pick, I get the message:

“Nothing to handle.”

🔹 Observation:

Component quantity exists.
Assembly Order is released.
Bin code on assembly lines shows "CROSS DOCK".

❓ My Question:

In this setup (non-directed warehouse with Require Pick & Put-away enabled):

Do I need to register Warehouse Put-away before creating the pick?
Does the inventory need to be in a specific bin type to allow pick creation?
Is CROSS DOCK bin causing the issue?

Any guidance on the correct ATO + Warehouse flow in this configuration would be appreciated.

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Dhiren Nagar 2,530 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi,

Make sure you have followed through below steps.

1 - You have defined the Bin as Cross dock bin by selecting Cross dock Boolean on Bin record.

2 - On your location, you have define the same bin as Cross-dock Bin code. Also Cross-dock boolean and due date calc. Is defined.

3 - On you warehouse you calculated the cross dock quantity, which was reflected in Qty to Cross-dock and then you posted the receipt.

4 - On the put-away instructions, system assigned the cross-dock bin and you registered that put-away.

5 - Now your Items will be available to pick for Shipment or production.

You can follow this guide to understand how Cross-dock functionality works in BC - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/dynamics365/business-central/warehouse-how-to-cross-dock-items

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OussamaSabbouh 10,862 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello ,

With your setup (Require Put-away/Pick on, bins mandatory, but NOT directed put-away & pick), the “Nothing to handle” is almost always because the components are not yet available as pickable bin content: after a receipt, they’re effectively sitting in the inbound flow until you register the warehouse put-away (or at least register the lines that place them into a bin), and only then can the system create a warehouse pick for assembly consumption. The CROSS DOCK bin isn’t inherently wrong, but cross-dock quantities only become pickable after you register the put-away lines to that cross-dock bin—Microsoft explicitly notes you must register put-away for cross-dock items to make them available for picking, and cross-dock works through put-away instruction lines created at receipt posting.

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Oussama Sabbouh

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