Supply Chain › Warehouse Structure
Storage Types
What KIND of space each area is, and the two decisions that follow from it: how stock is put away there and how it is taken out.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Warehouse
- Section: Warehouse Structure
- Screen: Storage Types
Address in the console: /scm/storage-types
List · 10 columns · 21 fields on its form · 4 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse | Code | warehouse_code |
| Code | Code | code |
| Name | Text | name |
| Class | Status | storage_class |
| Putaway | Status | putaway_strategy |
| Removal | Status | removal_strategy |
| Pick face | Yes or no | is_pick_face |
| Walk order | Number | travel_sequence |
| Bins | Number | bin_count |
| Active | Yes or no | is_active |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehouse required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Code required | Text | ||
| Name required | Text | ||
| Class required | Choice | Configuration list | |
| How stock is put away | Choice | Configuration list | Decided once here rather than argued about per order. |
| How stock is taken out | Choice | Configuration list | First expiring first out where the goods expire. FIFO is the safe default and is what a wave uses when nothing else is declared. |
| Stock here is tracked as handling units | Yes or no | ||
| Capacity checked on | Choice | none, weight, volume, pallet_count, both | |
| One bin may hold several items | Yes or no | ||
| One bin may hold several lots | Yes or no | ||
| Maximum weight (kg) | Number | ||
| Maximum volume (L) | Number | ||
| Maximum height (mm) | Number | ||
| Minimum temperature (C) | Number | ||
| Maximum temperature (C) | Number | ||
| Needs a certification | Text | A forklift license, hazmat handling. What makes a putaway illegal rather than merely awkward. | |
| This is a pick face | Yes or no | ||
| This is reserve storage | Yes or no | ||
| Where in the walking order | Number | Two areas with the same number are two areas a picker will visit in whatever order the database returned them, which is how a pick path becomes a walk. | |
| Active | Yes or no | ||
| Notes | Long text |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.