3.8.2.� Warehouse Locations

3.8.2.1. Warehouse Location

Warehouse Locations—also known as Locations—are the specific, unique material sites where Inventory is located inside a Warehouse. If the ARBL naming convention is being enforced within a Warehouse, Locations may be identified by aisle, rack, bin, and Location number. Locations may also exist within Warehouse Zones, if Zones are defined for the specified Warehouse. In most cases, related Items will be stored near to each other to simplify picking and Inventory counting. To access a master list of Warehouse Locations, select the "Warehouse Locations" option. The following screen will appear:

Warehouse Locations Master List

The "Warehouse Locations" screen displays information on all existing Warehouse Locations, including Warehouse code, Location name, Location description, and whether the Location is netable or restricted. When displaying available Warehouse Locations, you are presented with the following options:

All Warehouses: Select to display Warehouse Locations for all Warehouses.
Selected: Specify Warehouse whose Locations you want to display.

To the far right of the screen, the following buttons are available:

CLOSE: Closes the screen, returning you to the application desktop.
PRINT: Runs the report associated with this screen.
NEW: Opens screen for creating a new Warehouse Location.
EDIT: Enables you to edit highlighted Warehouse Locations. The edit screen is the same as that for creating a new Warehouse Location—except that when editing, the fields will contain Warehouse Location information. Double-clicking on a Warehouse Location also bring you to the editing screen.
VIEW: Highlight a Warehouse Location and then select this button to reach a read-only view of the "Edit" screen.
DELETE: Highlight a Warehouse Location and then select this button to remove the Location from the list.

3.8.2.1.�Warehouse Location

To create a new Warehouse Location, select the NEW button. The following screen will appear:

Create New Warehouse Location

When creating a new Warehouse Location, you are presented with the following options:

Warehouse: Specify Warehouse for the Warehouse Location.
Netable: Select if you want Items in the Location to be included in Quantity on Hand and Availability calculations. Not selecting means Items in the Location are non-netable. Items stored in a non-netable Location are not included in Quantity on Hand or Availability totals.

Note

When an Item is received into a non-netable Location, the Inventory transaction history will reflect a two-step process. First, the Quantity on Hand for the Item will be increased in the quantity received. Second, a non-netable (NN) correction will occur. This correction returns the Quantity on Hand to the pre-receipt levels—indicating a receipt into a non-netable Location. Again, quantity stored in a non-netable Location is considered separately. Changes in non-netable quantity do not affect bottom-line Quantity on Hand levels.

Restricted: Select if only a restricted set of Items may be placed in this Location. Not selecting means any Item that exists in the same Warehouse as this Location may be placed into it.
Zone: Specify the Warehouse Zone you want to associate with the Location, if any. Zone selection will be activated only if Warehouse Zones have been defined for the specified Warehouse.
Name: Enter a name to identify the Location. The name of the Location will vary, depending on whether the specified Warehouse enforces the aisle, rack, bin, Location (ARBL) naming convention. If the convention is enforced, then the name for the Location may also include aisle, rack, or bin information. If ARBL is not enforced, then the Location name will consist of only one field.

Note

The parameters for the ARBL naming convention are set within a Warehouse master. These parameters include the maximum length allowed for names and whether alpha characters or numeric only may be used.

Description: This is a scrolling text field with word-wrapping for entering a description of the Location.
Allowable Items: Display is only activated if the Location has been designated as restricted. If a Location is restricted, only certain Items are allowed to be stored there.

To the far right of the screen, the following buttons are available:

CANCEL: Closes the screen without creating the Warehouse Location, returning you to the previous screen.
SAVE: Creates the Warehouse Location and adds it to the master list of Warehouse Locations.
NEW: Select to pick an Item from the master list of Items and designate it as allowed within the restricted Location.
DELETE: Highlight an Item and then select this button to remove the Item from the list of allowable items.