Hi Jessica, There are many things to consider when setting up a new warehouse. At the very minimum you need to give it a Warehouse code and say which Site this warehouse will be in. Other things to check include: 1) What type of warehouse will it be? -Default (a standard stock warehouse) -Quarantine (a warehouse for inspecting stock in which you can perform quarantine orders) -Transit (a warehouse into which stock goes after being shipped from its current default warehouse and before being received into its end default warehouse to represent the item is in transit) 2) If it is a default warehouse would you initiate quarantine orders from this warehouse, if so then you need to specify which quarantine warehouse it will go into. 3) If it is a default warehouse and you use transfer orders to move stock from this warehouse to another and want to record when it is in transit then you need to specify which transit warehouse it sits in (you may have a specific trolley to move items in this warehouse for example) 4) Can this warehouse be used by planning in order for MRP to give you planned transfers to and from this location or should it not be seen by master planning (for example if you have a non conformance warehouse you may not want the system to plan movements from this warehouse). Tick the manual flag under master planning section if you don't want planning to plan to use the stock. 5) If you want master planning to replenish this warehouse automatically (planned transfer orders) from another warehouse when it gets low on stock then you can tick the refilling flag and specify from which warehouse you want it to refill from. There are many more things you could do for example setting a calendar for this warehouse (useful if MRP is going to plan orders from and to this warehouse), stating if this warehouse is linked to a particular supplier (e.g on their premises but our stock -useful for sub contractors) and if you want locations within this warehouse you should consider setting up locations and assigning default pick and issue locations for the warehouse if you store stock at a location level. Hope this helps
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