Container
When you receive inventory through a purchase order you can select an existing container or you can select a packing material to create a new container to receive into. The container field will show containers that already exist in the system that are available for use, since a recent update this now excludes containers that have been used to pack orders.
In cases where you have a more complicated receiving scenario you can create the containers before receiving and then enter them while receiving, for example: you are receiving a pallet with 12 boxes of products. In this scenario you would go to the containers option to create the pallet and then create the 12 boxes, on each box you would indicate the pallet in the "in container" field. Once you have created the all the containers you would then proceed to receive the products into each box. Operationally I would suggest that the person performing the receiving would stick the labels onto each box after a receive is done. When finished receiving you can then move the pallet to a picking bin using the inventory move option so the inventory can be allocated against.
Once the inventory is in a container you will need to deal with that container in the system, you cannot deal with the inventory items inside directly. The system offers low level operations to put inventory (and other containers) in and take inventory (and other containers) from containers. You can do this by going to the container in the containers option and then using the "put" and "take" options respectively, in these screens you would go to the outer container and then enter the inner container's label as the license plate. To put inventory into a container it needs to be on the same bin location as the container (otherwise no inventory will be found), when taking inventory from a container the inventory will be put onto the same bin location as the container.
When you want to move the inventory you have to move the top level container, in earlier mentioned the scenario you can only move the pallet. Rather than having to use the take option from the containers screen you can do so during an inventory move by filling in the top level container in the container field and then specifying what you are moving from it. If you would for example want to move one box from the pallet to a picking bin you would enter the pallet as the container and the box's container label as the license plate. If you would want to take the inventory items from a box you would have to take it from the pallet first though (as the inventory move option currently does not allow you to use a container that is inside another container). When moving inventory items and unpacking them from the container you would enter the container in the inventory move screen and specify the items that you are taking out.
The type of packing material to use for products that you are receiving is up to you, I would set up one or more packing materials specifically for packing materials that products come in (perhaps packing materials that you have been using were created by someone for that purpose). The only important factor when doing so is setting the level appropriately as this impacts in what type of containers you can put the container of that packing material.
When picking you will need to scan the container label to take inventory from the container, in this case you would always scan the container that has the inventory items in it. So for the case of the earlier example you would scan one of the boxes instead of the pallet. If the box contains the quantity to pick or less and the container is pickable (this is defined on the packing material) then a scan of the container will pick the entire container in one go. In this case the system does not remove the inventory from the container, you would thus put the box in the tote rather than taking the inventory items from it. If the container contains more inventory than what is to be picked the app will prompt you to take items from the container, you then take items from the box and put then in the tote.
When arriving at the packing station with a tote that has a picked container you can 1) use the container as a parcel, to do this you would enter the picked container as the container during packing or 2) pack the picked container into another packing material (or container) for shipping, in this case you would enter the picked container's label as the license plate during picking. It is then put into the parcel's container. What to do here is an operational decision.