Warehouse accounting by cells allows you to be always informed about which parts of the warehouse contain the goods and materials.
To access the cells section, open the create and edit form for the required warehouse (to learn how to do it, please see par. Create and edit warehouse) or click the ‘Warehouse Cells’ hyperlink located on the toolbar above. If you create a warehouse and not edit it, press ‘Save’ before clicking ‘Warehouse Cells’: the system will not let you access the warehouse cells catalog without first saving the related warehouse.
Please note that warehouse should have the ‘Cellular’ attribute enabled (it is displayed in the ‘Main’ page and its hyperlink is located on the toolbar above). Otherwise the system will not let you create cells.
To add a cell, press the ‘Create’ button on the list toolbar. To edit the existing one, double click the line with its name. You can also select the line, press the ‘More’ button (in the upper right corner) and click ‘Edit’ in the drop-down list. You can right-click the line instead of pressing the ‘More’ button.
In the create form, only the Description field is required. Description will be displayed in the system interface, in the drop-down lists, and in the documents print forms.
Warehouse Cell (create) form
Both the warehouses catalog and the cell section have a hierarchy structure. To form a dependency, select the parent cell in the Parent field (to open the catalog to select from, click the ‘Show all’ hyperlink in the drop-down list). If the necessary cell has not been added yet, you can create it by pressing the ‘Create’ button on the toolbar of the displayed directory or by pressing the button in the same drop-down list.
After completing the cell form, press ‘Save and close’ or ‘Save’ to save the applied changes. When saving a new item, the system will assign it a unique code that can be edited. After finishing your work with the cells, be sure to do the same in the warehouse form (you can access it by clicking the ‘Main’ hyperlink located on the toolbar above)On this form, you can view a hierarchic structure of storage locations in your warehouse and add new locations if needed.
Clearly identify bin locations to match your warehouse's physical location layout: Blocks, Zones, Rooms, Rows, Racks, Shelves, Cells, Bins, or any other location and storage types. Maintaining a clear structure of bin location that aligns with actual layout of the warehouse will help you maintain the inventory in order and will facilitate stocktaking. Using bin locations in documents will allow you to accelerate the picking process.
Note. Bin location names must be unique. No two locations should have the same name. In case of multi-level structure, it is recommended that you start creating locations with upper-level locations. When creating a bin location, provide it with a full name which includes the names of all containing (upper-level) locations or their abbreviations and the name of the location itself. For example, for a Cell2 in the Row1 on the Level1 of the warehouse, the full name could be Level1Row1Cell2.
The Bin Locations list for a warehouse
Click Create on the toolbar to add a new warehouse bin location at the lowest level or any location or storage type at upper levels of the warehouse structure. For details, refer to Adding a Bin Location.
To edit a location, double-click its name in the list.