Setting Up Warehouses

To create a warehouse with specific operation types, you will need to activate multi-locations in the settings which can be done by:

1. Navigating to Inventory > Configuration >  Settings

2. Under Warehouse, tick on Storage Locations

Creating a Warehouse

Follow the steps below to create a warehouse in Odoo:

1. Go to Inventory Module > Configuration > Warehouses > New

2. Fill in the details: 

• Warehouse Name - Put the full name of the warehouse.
• Short Name - Enter a 5-character code for your warehouse.  Note that this code is the one that will appear in the lists and in the warehouse documents, so be careful and make sure that the name that you will choose is easy to understand and easy to enter.
• Address - The address of your warehouse will be the same as the company selected. You can add an existing contact or company or create a new one. Also, you can leave it blank and edit it afterwards.

3. Click Save to successfully create the warehouse.

Note: When you create a new Company, it automatically creates a new warehouse and when you create a new warehouse, new operation types are automatically created for this warehouse. (Receipts, Internal Transfers, and Delivery Orders) 

You can also watch this video for reference: https://waoconnect.screencasthost.com/watch/c0enI9VyLwh

Setting Up Locations

A Location is a specific space within your warehouse. It can be considered as a sublocation of your warehouse, as a shelf, a floor, an aisle, etc. Therefore, a location is part of one warehouse only and it is not possible to link one location to multiple warehouses. You can configure as many locations as you need under one warehouse. 

There are few types of locations:

• Internal Location
• Vendor Location
• Customer Location
• Inventory Loss Location
• Production Location
• Transit Location

In order to be able to create different locations, you will need to activate multi-locations in the settings which can be done by:

1. Navigating Inventory > Configuration >  Settings

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2. Under Warehouse, tick on Storage Locations

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3. Go to Inventory > Configuration > Locations > New

4. Fill in the details:

• Location Name - Type the location name
• Parent Location - Select the parent location from the options available
• Location Type - Internal Location, Vendor Location, Customer Location, Inventory Loss Location, Production Location or Transit Location
• Is a Scrap Location? - if you want the location to be suggested when scrapping a product 
• Is a Return Location? - if you want the location to be suggested when creating a return 

5. Click Save

You can also watch this video for reference: https://waoconnect.screencasthost.com/watch/c0en2fVyLx2