Using warehouse areas in Ongoing WMS

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Introduction

If you have multiple goods owners in your Ongoing WMS, you may want to designate certain parts of your warehouse to specific goods owners. For instance, you may want to make sure that all items for a certain goods owners are always placed in a designated aisle.

Ongoing WMS supports this by using warehouse areas. A warehouse area is a way to define part of a warehouse. You can then set a warehouse area on a goods owner, and the system will enforce that all items for the goods owner are placed in the warehouse area.

Difference between zones and areas

When you set up your warehouse map, you define a hierarchy:

  • Warehouses which contain zones
  • Zones which contain aisles
  • Aisles which contain locations
A zone is intended to represent a subdivision of a warehouse building (for instance, in a cold-storage facility you could have one zone which is kept at below freezing and another zone which is kept at slightly above freezing). Because a zone can only contain entire aisles, a zone will usually represent a physical subdivision of some kind.

A warehouse area is also a subdivision of a warehouse, but it is much more flexible than a zone. For instance, a warehouse area can contain parts of aisles and aisles from several different zones. A warehouse area can be used to define a logical subdivision of your warehouse.

Creating a warehouse area

Go to Administration ⇒ Warehouse area and click "Create new warehouse area". Give the warehouse area a name. Then select what the warehouse area contains. You can select specific warehouses, zones, aisles and locations. Note that this is additive: If you set up your warehouse area so that it contains the zone Z1 and the location B1, then the warehouse area will contain "all locations in zone Z1, and the location B1".

Setting a warehouse area on a goods owner

Go to Administration ⇒ Goods owners and edit a goods owner. In the dropdown called "Warehouse area", select the correct warehouse area for the goods owner. You can use the same warehouse area on multiple goods owners. The system will now make it impossible to receive or move the goods owner's items outside of the warehouse area.

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