Understanding Warehouse Locations Setup

The warehouse consists of locations, such as bins, spaces on a rack, pallet spaces on the floor, and so on. To locate items more easily, you can create a hierarchy of locations within the warehouse and enter information about zones. After you have defined the format for the locations, you must define all of the locations in a warehouse. Use the format that you specified on the Branch/Plant Constants form to enter each warehouse location.

You can define a primary location to store basic information about items in a warehouse. A primary location is not an actual physical location. For example, you could designate a primary location as Location A, and then assign every item in the warehouse to a location that begins with A.

You can also define a blank location as the primary location for inventory items and how the system displays the primary location depending on the location format specifications that you defined for the branch/plant.

You can define locations for:

• Damaged goods

• Demo inventory

• Consigned items

• Customer inventory

• Returns

• Rework

• Expensed inventory

Additionally, you can define pseudo locations that represent physical locations for products that you sell but do not stock, such as products that are stocked at the supplier's facility and shipped from there.

Location control is a feature that you activate through the branch/plant constants. Location control is required for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management system but optional for all other distribution systems.

You can assign a Location Hold Code to allow or prevent transactions in or out of the location. See Allowing Inventory Locations to be Put on Hold (Release 9.2 Update).

The system stores location information in the Location Master table (F4100).