Warehouse zones

Setting up zones divides your warehouse into manageable, functional areas. A zone contains several locations and is a segment of your warehouse that is usually designed to fulfill a specific utility or purpose. For example, within your warehouse, you can have these types of zones or areas:

  • Secured
  • Cold storage
  • Quick pick
  • Bulk storage
  • Related items
  • Hazardous materials
  • Other specialized partitions

With a warehouse zone, a picker can specialize in handling the equipment, locations, and items in that zone.

The warehouse zone is specified in the New Part Default Zone option in SA Administrator Options-Logistics-WL Options. For items being received in TWL for the first time, this warehouse zone is assigned to the TWL Configuration-Item master record. The warehouse zone is also assigned to the Warehouse Zone field on Product Warehouse Product Setup records for items received in the TWL warehouse.

If a zone is not specified when a product is received, the TWL Configuration-Warehouse master record is checked. If a zone does not exist on that record, then you can specify where the inventory is being stored during receiving. New receipts can be directed to other zones, such as the bulk or overflow zones, that enable putaway.

TWL can be set up to enable one employee to pick several orders, or enable more than one person picking the same order in different zones. If your zones are overlaid when you set up warehouse zone records, more than one employee can pick in the same zone because a set of aisles exists in more than one zone record. For example, if zone A has aisles 1-10 and zone B has aisles 1-50, then both zones have aisles 1-10.