Understand locations and warehouses

Locations are the places you hold stock, from whole warehouses down to bins. They nest in a hierarchy and carry sellable, receivable and pickable flags.

Locations are the places you hold stock, from a whole warehouse down to a single bin. They form a hierarchy and carry flags that control how each place is used.

How does the location hierarchy work?

• Types nest from broad to specific: Warehouse → Zone → Aisle → Rack → Shelf → Bin.
• A child points at its Parent Location; top-level places have no parent.
• Sellable means stock here can be sold. Receivable means you can receive inventory into it. Pickable means it can be picked from when fulfilling orders.
• One warehouse can be the default, used when a process needs to pick a location for you.
• Only warehouses carry a Timezone, used for that site's local cut-off times.

Tip. Keep one clean top-level warehouse per physical site, then add zones and bins underneath as your picking gets more precise.