Using warehouses
Warehouses are places where goods are stored.
You can optionally divide a warehouse in locations or zones.
Purchased and produced goods, but also goods from other origins, can be stored in warehouses. These goods are retrieved from the warehouse later on for production, sales, service, or transport to another warehouse.
To define warehouses
Warehouses are initially defined in the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session. You can start this session:
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By clicking New in the Warehouses tab of the Enterprise Unit (tcemm0630m000) session or the Site (tcemm0650m000) session.
If you create a warehouse for an enterprise unit in the Enterprise Unit (tcemm0630m000) session, the warehouse is automatically linked to the enterprise unit.
If you create a warehouse for a site unit in the Site (tcemm0650m000) session, the warehouse is automatically linked to the site.
- Stand-alone.
In the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session, you can define addresses for each warehouse and data that relates to its type.
In this session you can, for example, also define:
- Whether a warehouse is location-controlled.
- The default location data.
Lead times:
- inbound lead time
- outbound lead time
- cross-dock lead time
- The use of handling units
Settings for:
- cross-docking
- direct material supply
Warehouses are used throughout all the modules of Warehousing.
To register item master data for each warehouse
To get information about item data for each warehouse, you can view or report the item data by warehouse in the Item Data by Warehouse (whwmd2510m000) or the Print Warehouse - Items Inventory (whwmd2410m000) session.
In these sessions you can view or change, for example, this information:
- Safety stock
- Reorder point
- Forecast method
- Pricing information
Item data (by warehouse) is used in these processes:
- Calculate the demand forecast
- Advise purchase and production orders
- Maintain purchase and production orders
- Maintain inventory transactions