Entering Inventory Locations—Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Basic Data Setup

Exercise Name

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to set up the basic data required for running this functionality.

Windows:
Inventory Part

  1. Enter an inventory part on your own site.
  2. Save your changes.

General exercise for Purchased Inventory Part

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to show you how to enter inventory locations. Make sure that you create the inventory locations on your own site.

Windows:
Inventory Location Groups
Inventory Locations
Inventory Part/Default Locations

Entering Inventory Locations

  1. Open the Inventory Location Groups window.
  2. Enter four location groups as shown in the table below, replacing XX with your initials. Use different location types to distinguish the location groups.
Location Gr Group Desc Location Type
XXA Arrival Area Arrival
XXP Picking Area Picking
XXPB PB Area Pallet Buffer
XXPD PD Area Pallet Delivery
XXQA QA Area Picking
  1. Open the Inventory Locations window. Enter six inventory locations with different location types, as shown in the table below.
    Location No Warehouse Bay Location Group
    XXA XX ARRIVAL XXA
    XXP1 XX SECTION A 1 XXP
    XXP2 XX SECTION A 2 XXP
    XXP3 XX SECTION B 3 XXP
    XXPB PALLET BUFFER XXPB
    XXPD PALLET DELIVERY XXPD
    XXQ1 XX QUALITY 1 XXQA
    XXQ2 XX QUALITY 2 XXQA
  1. If you have entered some inventory parts on a site of your own, you might want to connect your inventory parts to default locations for each location type. The location specified on the Inventory Part/Default Locations tab will serve as the default when parts are received and picked. For which of your location types can you create a default location?

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