The location option is used to create or upload new warehouse locations to the system. Using the navigation panel, you can also edit the limited fields.

These are your locations within the warehouse and are used to store the name of the locations along with the picking configuration and capacities

On this page:

1 Example Location Label
2 Field explanations
- 2.1 Location Name
- 2.2 Location Type
  - 2.2.1 Pick Replenishment Operations
  - 2.2.2 Adding New Location Types
3 Configuration Section
- 3.1 How does it work
- 3.2 Use 9L cases
- 3.3 Has Mixed Products
- 3.4 Max Height
4 Location Upload from CSV

We would suggest that the location names within all warehouse locations are the same length, if needed pad out with - or _ or 000 to achieve the result.

You would need to have a Warehouse and Sites created for you to create a Warehouse Location.

Example Location Label

This shows a check digit of 22.

Field explanations

Location Name

→ This must be a unique name for the location, one that is only used one time in the entire site.

If using barcodes and scanning it is advised that the minimum name length for a location is at least 4 characters long, anything less than this can be scanned but the magnification required to keep the barcode minimum width is outside the tolerances usually allowed for barcode creation, this can lead to erratic results when scanning, If you are using check digits for the locations then this takes up 2 characters, so the name in this instance can be a length of 2.

Location Type

The system by default has the location types as shown in the section below (you need to expand this to see them) The lines marked in Green are the usual codes used for the majority of warehouses. If you are implementing the Pick Replen feature than you should also use K - Pick as well as these standard location types.

Those marked in ORANGE are non pick location types

ID	Description	Notes

ID	Description	Notes
N	Non Physical	Restricted Use
R	Rack	You may also choose to split the rack for H/E/L if you need to know High/Medium/Low Racks.
B	Bulk
V	High Value
P	Put Away	Additional Area defined for goods put away in the warehouse.
F	Floor	An alternative if using Pick when a location is not a pick replenishment location.
N	Bottle	A single bottle store
T	Tank	Liquid / Tank Use
M	Manufacturing	Only for use in manufacturing operations
D	Flex Device	Restricted Use - only for Flex temporary location when moving stocks.
K	Pick	Special Use - When you are using the pick replenishment system and is usually a picking location which is replenished from elsewhere in the warehouse.
Q	QA	Restricted Use - only for use with the QA system.
C	Condition Reporting	Restricted Use - only when using the CR System
H	High Rack	Used as a possible alternative to R
E	Middle Rack	Used as a possible alternative to R
L	Low Rack	Used as a possible alternative to R
Z	Stock Control	Special Location usually when you want to segregate stocks such as those for disposal

Pick Replenishment Operations

If you are using PICK replenishment operations then you need to ensure your PICK locations are set up, and you should modify your site settings to use pick locations first before FIFO. However, it will only use the PICK location for quantities of less than one pallet

Adding New Location Types

Customers can also request their own location types to be added to the list, generally, this is done when the system is first set up, to do this later will incur a charge from the support team to make the configuration change.

Configuration Section

How does it work

The system uses the W/A/R/H (Warehouse / Aisle / Row / Height) to build a matrix of the sequence it picks from stocks in the warehouse.

It takes each value and builds the pick route, so 1/1/1/1 will be picked before 1/1/1/2 and this is before 1/1/2/1, and so on.

The warehouse number needs to be kept unique to some degree but you can have multiple virtual warehouses within a single warehouse. e.g. If you want to pick the lower racks before the upper racks then you can have the lower racks as warehouse number 11 and the upper ones as warehouse number 21

Use 9L cases

→ This used for the graphical warehouse currently to assess how full the location is.

Has Mixed Products

→ If you are using auto put away routines then specify whether this location is allowed to store different products in the same location at the same time.

Max Height

→ This is also used for put-away routines, when you specify the location height it ensures that the goods do not exceed this height for the put-away routine.

Location Upload from CSV

You are able to create a Warehouse Location manually using the above screen or you are able to upload (import) multiple Locations using an excel spreadsheet.

To find out the format we would suggest you export some locations and then follow this format for the new import file.