Locations overview
Overview
Your products can live in many different locations in your warehouse (or branch). Cin7 Omni organizes these locations into Zones and Bins. Zones are larger areas like bays or rooms, for example, Loading_Zone, or Bay1. Bins are smaller areas inside a zone like shelves or bins, for example, Shelf.1, or Bin-A.
Before you allocate stock to a location, you need to create locations for each branch. These product locations are used in purchase orders, sales orders, WMS, and other transactions.
You can also bulk update your product locations or add a usual location (static) in document templates.
Locations are also known as dynamic or inventory-specific locations. Pick 'n' Pack uses a different location method. Pick 'n' Pack is no longer supported from the 31st of October 2023. Change from static to dynamic locations when you migrate to WMS.
Update product locations
Before you can give products a location, you need to create locations for your branches. Move products into zones and bins with:
Other transactions use locations including branch transfers, sales orders, production jobs, and more.
You can bulk update your product locations with Stocktake Master.
View stock locations
You can get an overview of your stock locations with:
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The Open to Sell (OTS) view for products
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Stock on Hand and Availability report. You will need to add the Zones and Bins fields to the report.
Locations in document templates
You can include static or dynamic locations on document templates:
Static locations are your products’ preferred or default locations. Use them on printed documents like packing slips to help your team quickly find items during picking.
Dynamic locations are the actual locations products were picked from. These are only available after picking is complete, so don’t use them on packing slips. Instead, include them on delivery documents or other documents generated after picking.
To add locations to document templates:
From the user menu, open Settings.
Under Setup, click Document Templates.
Click Design for the template you want to edit.
Under Configure, click Line Items.
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Select either:
For static locations, Show Zone(s) / Bin(s)
For dynamic locations, Show Dynamic Zone(s) / Bin(s)
Click Save.