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title: "How to ERP: Acumatica Directed Putaway for Stock and Non-stock Items"
description: How to ERP looks at 'actual functionality' of ERP software, with this feature focusing on Acumatica's warehouse inventory 'putaway' capabilities.
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# [How to ERP: Acumatica Directed Putaway for Stock and Non-stock Items](https://blog.insightfulaccountant.com/how-to-erp-acumatica-directed-putaway-for-stock-and-non-stock-items)

 Written by [William Murphy](https://blog.insightfulaccountant.com/author/william-murphy) | Oct 23, 2025 4:45:00 AM

How to ERP is a series that focuses on the 'actual functionality' of various ERP software. It is designed to provide an in-depth view of the capabilities of various ERPs, as many of these products offer only limited demonstrations of their features.

It's hard to make decisions about acquisition or transition to a particular ERP if you don't have information about how you would perform a specific task or function. This series is designed to provide you with more details that you can typically obtain on your own, via the developer's website or product demonstration.

Many ERP users have inventory-centric businesses that may be involved in wholesale, eCommerce, brick-and-mortar retail, fabrication, or manufacturing. Many of them have either large (or multiple) warehouses where their inventory is stocked. It is from those warehouses that inventory is disbursed. At the same time, it is at those warehouses that inventory is received.

Proper inventory management and warehouse configuration are essential to effective order fulfillment and inventory distribution (to stores, fulfillment centers, or manufacturing facilities). But, to ensure that the inventory is appropriately stocked, the proper 'putaway' of inventory being received (or returned) is critical.

Acumatica has recently introduced a more efficient way to ensure accurate stocking with new directed putaway capabilities, which guide workers to the correct stocking location. You can streamline the automated putaway process by specifying a default putaway location for each stock item. This means warehouse workers no longer have to check storage assignments every time they put away received items.

Let's examine the step-by-step process of Acumatica's new directed putaway functionality.

**Specifying a Default Putaway Location for Stock Items**

You can specify a default putaway location for each warehouse in which you receive a stock item. For any such item and warehouse where you receive it, follow these steps: 

(1) Open **Item Warehouse Details ***(Acumatica Form: IN204500)*.  
(2) In the **Inventory ID **field of the Summary area, specify the stock item.  
(3) In the **Warehouse **field, specify the warehouse.  
(4) In the **Default Putaway To **field *( shown highlighted in red below), *specify the default putaway location.

**Figure: **New** **Default Putaway To field - Source: Acumatica

(5) Select **Save**.  

 

To view all default locations for putaway of stock items across your warehouses, follow these steps:

**(1)** Under **Stock Items** *(Acumatica Form: IN202500),* select the **Item**.  
**(2)** Choose the **Warehouses **tab to see the complete list *(as shown below).*

**Figure: Default Putaway Location for Stock Item(s) – Source: Acumatica**

**Figure: **Default Putaway Location for Stock Item(s)** – Source: **Acumatica

**(3) **Select **Save**.

 

You also have an option to specify a stock Item's ***default putaway location*** at the Item level.

(1) Make certain the **Default Warehouse **is specified on the **General **tab *(as shown below-top red box).*  
(2) In this warehouse, select a location using the **Default Putaway To **field *(shown below-bottom red box).*

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**Figure: **Settings for a stock item's default warehouse** – Source: **Acumatica

(3) Select * ***Save**.

**Configuring the Directed Putaway**

 Warehouse workers will have the directed putaway workflow only if the **Request Location for Each Item on Putting Away **check box has been selected on **Purchase Orders ***(Acumatica PO101000 form)* Preferences *(as shown below).*

**Figure: **The Request Location for Each Item on Putting Away check box** – Source: **Acumatica

With this check box selected, the Acumatica mobile app prompts warehouse workers to:

**(1) **Scan the **Item.**  
**(2) **Scan the **Warehouse location**. The worker can scan the current location or a different one.  
**(3)** The prompt suggests the item's default putaway location *(as shown below)*.

**Figure: **Location suggestion in the mobile app** – Source: **Acumatica

If the default putaway location has been specified at the level of the item's warehouse, the system suggests scanning an alternate location.

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**Specifying the Default Putaway Location for Non-Stock Items**

With the recent release of Acumatica ERP 2025 R2, users can now specify the default putaway location for non-stock items that require receiving and putaway, as well as stock item. Users can specify this location in the new **Non-Stock Item Location **box *(shown below)* on the **Warehouses*** **(Acumatica: IN204000)* form.

**Figure:** The Non-Stock Location field** ****– Source: **Acumatica

Directed putaway for non-stock items is only enabled if you select the **Request Location for Each Item on Putting Away**** **check box on the **Purchase Orders *** (Acumatica: PO101000)* Preferences form—just as it is for stock items.

**Receiving and Putting Away Non-Stock Items**

Within an automated warehouse, receiving and putaway for both stock and non-stock items occurs in the same manner. However, before you start receiving, returning, and putting away non-stock items on the **Receive and Putaway*** **(Acumatica: PO302020)* form, only non-stock items with the **Require Receipt **check box selected on the **Non-Stock Items*** (Acumatica: IN202000) *form can be received, returned, and put away.

- Putting away non-stock items doesn't generate inventory or GL transactions because the item has already been expensed at receipt release, and inventory isn't tracked for it.
- Putaway of non-stock items is currently supported only in automated warehouse operations. You can't create a transfer of a non-stock item directly using** ****Transfer*** (Acumatica: IN304000)* forms.

**Remember**

- You can now specify default putaway locations for a stock item on the **Item Warehouse Details*** *(Acumatica: IN204500) and **Stock Items*** *(Acumatica: IN202500) forms.
- Directed putaway works only if you select the **Request Location for Each Item on Putting Away **check box on the** ****Purchase Orders Preferences **(Acumatica: PO101000) form.
- You can use directed putaway for both stock and non-stock items.

**Disclosures:**

Product-related content (including illustrative graphics) within this feature have been derived from Acumatica media source content including Acumatica 2025 R2 release preview materials. Content derived from Acumatica sources is published by ***Insightful Accountant*** for informational and educational purposes only.

[Acumatica](https://www.acumatica.com/), as used herein, refers to one or more registered trademarks of Acumatica, Inc., a privately held, multi-national corporation headquartered in Kirkland, WA (USA). Since 2019, Acumatica has been held by the private equity firm EQT of Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden.  [Acumatica Cloud ERP](https://www.acumatica.com/) is a comprehensive business management solution that was born in the cloud and built for more connected, collaborative ways of working. Designed explicitly to enable small and mid-market companies to thrive in today’s digital economy, Acumatica’s flexible solution, customer-friendly business practices, and industry-specific functionality help growing businesses adapt to fast-moving markets and take control of their future.

Any other trade names used herein, refer to products that may be registered, trademarked, or otherwise held by their respective owners; they are referenced for informational and educational purposes only.

This is an editorial feature, not sponsored content. No company or other person mentioned in this article has paid ***Insightful Accountant ***any remuneration to be the subject of this feature. The article is provided solely for informational and educational purposes.

The publication of this article should not be interpreted as an endorsement by either the author or ***Insightful Accountant.***

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