Basic of Warehouse System

Product:

It represents the basic unit stored in warehouse, its quantity is recorded according to the product.

For example: Fuji Apple, Orange, 1.25L Soda...

The system supports multiple attributes for each product. Please refer to the "Item" in BC for details.

If there are different kinds of goods, they can be divided into "category"
For example: fruits, drinks, red wine..

Please refer to Configure Items for Warehouse Operation

Warehouse refers to the physical location of storing goods. The company can define based on their needs.

For example:
"Main Warehouse", "Branch 01", "Branch 02"...

Or "Kowloon", "Tuen Mun", "Mongkok"

Or "Success Building 1st Floor", "Success Building 2nd Floor", "Successful Low temperature Warehouse"

Please refer to Set up Warehouse (Location & Bin)

If the warehouse is large, using warehouse may not be sufficient to indicate the location of goods. In this case, you need to use "Bin"

Bin can be a certain grid on the actual shelf, or a certain shelf, or even just an area

For example: "A1-01", "A1-02", "A1-03"...
Or "Bin A", "Bin B", "Bin C"...
Or "Pickup area", "Storage area", "Re-packing area", "Dispatch area"

Please refer to Set up Warehouse (Location & Bin)

Of who the company will buy the products from & sell the products to.

Stock in means adding goods to the warehouse

Please refer to Purchase Order: Stock-in Process (BC & Scanner)

Stock out is to take goods out of the warehouse

Please refer to Sales Order: Stock-out Process (BC & Scanner)

Transfer means re-allocation of stock, which can be handled in the following situations:

1) Grouping items to the same location
2) Make spare spaces for new goods
3) Move defect items to a specific location for later reimbursement

Please refer to Stock Transfer (Scanner Operation)

& Transfer Order Process (BC & Scanner)

Stock-take is to check the system inventory and actual figures regularly.

After counting inventories, it is possible to make:

• Positive adjustment: The actual volume is more than the system record
• Negative adjustment: The actual volume is less than the system record

Stock-take can be done for a specific range of locations, and/or a specific range of products.

It can be separated into different stock-take batches, so different colleagues are responsible to count different groups, or perform in diffeernt time slots.

Please refer to Stock Take (BC & Scanner)