What is an Inventory Storage Area?

An Inventory Storage Area is where you specify the whereabouts of the stock items in your system. You can specify storage characteristics for these areas, such as temperature and physical location. These are then matched to the storage characteristics that have been assigned to your stock items so that products are kept in the correct conditions. These characteristics are created and maintained using Item Characteristics (ITC) function.

There are three types of Inventory Storage Area you can use:

  • Location
  • Warehouse
  • Zone.

Location

A location is a specific storage area with a particular set of storage characteristics.

You can associate a location with a warehouse or zone. For example, a location could be a shelf with specific storage characteristics such as size, within a zone which could be a physical area of a warehouse.

For example, a location could be a shelf.

Warehouse

A warehouse is a building used to store items and may contain a number of zones and specific storage locations.

You can also set up warehouse groups to link particular warehouses together.

For example, a warehouse could be storage building.

A warehouse group could be all warehouses in a geographical region.

Zone

A zone is a storage area within a warehouse and may contain a number of specific storage locations. A zone may have a specific set of storage characteristics associated with it.

Locations of similar characteristics may be grouped into zones and exist within a warehouse.

For example, a zone could be an area within a warehouse.