Location Profile Information

You define location profile information to attach specific attributes to each location. These attributes specify the location's purpose, and its physical position in the warehouse. The system can use these attributes during inventory movement to select locations for putaway, picking, or replenishment, and determine what location is the best fit for the item, based on the attributes. You define attributes such as:

• Location sequences, which can form the routes that warehouse employees follow for putaway, picking, and replenishment

• Relative coordinates for each location in the warehouse, which the system uses to calculate the distance between two locations

• The maximum number of items you can have in the location

• A location dimension group for the location

• A characteristic group for the location (optional)

• Whether you can mix container types, or old and new items in the location

• Whether the location is for putaway, picking, replenishment, or for staging inventory during two-phase movement

If you use random locations for putaway, you must rebuild the tiebreaker table whenever you change the putaway sequence or proximity (latitude, longitude, or height) of a random location.