Warehouse

Before any stock can be received, LogisticaHQ needs a map of your warehouse. The map has four levels, each set up under Setup > Warehouse:

Level	What it is	Example
Warehouse	A site.	1001 - Main warehouse
Zone	An area whose bins share the same rules: loose stock or pallets, which products and clients, whether stock there can be picked.	A - pick shelving, R - pallet racking, Q - quarantine
Bin	One storage location, with a barcode label.	A-01-003, R02-B
Dock door	A loading door, with a barcode label.	Door 3

Setting up a warehouse, step by step

Plan the zones with your LogisticaHQ partner: which areas hold loose stock and which hold pallets, where picking happens, where damaged or recalled stock goes, and whether any area is reserved for a client or a product category.
Create the warehouse. See Warehouses.
Create its zones and set each zone's rules. See Zones.
Generate each zone's bins from a mask, and set their picking sequence. See Bins.
Print and apply the bin labels.
Create the dock doors and print their labels. See Dock doors.
Load the opening stock, by receiving it or with a cycle count of each bin.

Name bins so they sort in walking order: A-01-001, not A-1-1. Use the zeros in the mask.
Keep one expiry date per bin in zones with expiring stock, so the oldest stock is always picked first.
Keep a quarantine zone for damaged, returned or recalled stock: stock there is never picked by mistake.
Test the setup with a few receipts, moves and picks before loading all your stock.

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