Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Advanced Warehousing: The secret of the warehouse worker location

Using Dynamics 365 for Operations' Advanced Warehousing application, each warehouse user becomes a location with a location profile that is taken from the warehousing parameters. This location is created behind the scenes when you create warehouses workers.

Why do we need such a location? When the warehouse worker is between a PICK and a PUT, the inventory is located in this user location. (You may consider the user location to be the forklift the user drives.) A little surprising maybe, but it makes sense and it normally works fine. See below for a few of those user locations, created automatically. The location ID is the worker ID. Notice the field "Location profile" with the value "Use." This came from the warehouse parameters.

What can go wrong with this? One could easily make a mistake in timing. When we want to be proactive and enthusiastically create warehouse users before we have entered a user default location profile in the warehousing parameters, we have created an unworkable situation. The warehouse worker will not be able to do anything. The user logs into the mobile client, goes through the steps of scanning data and clicking OK, and everything looks fine; but when the mobile step gets to the point of the PICK, the system will send the error:

License Plate Specified on a non-license plate controlled location. Update has been cancelled.

Most of us have seen this error before, and normally, this is easy to fix. We take the message literally and correct that checkbox on the location profile. But we can't take any action now. The physical warehouse location I am using for ...