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Purchase and Inventory · 18 min · 18–20Warehouses, locations, routes and operation types
How Inventory models stock: warehouses, locations, operation types, one/two/three-step flows, routes and rules.
In this lesson
- Locations, moves, transfers and quants
- Steps, routes and rules
- Designing from the warehouse floor
Key points
- stock.location (internal and virtual), stock.move, stock.picking, stock.quant
- 1/2/3-step receipts and deliveries create routes and rules
- Routes: buy, manufacture, MTO, resupply, dropship
- Walk the floor first; match steps to reality
Real-world example
A Lagos FMCG distributor used one-step delivery, so pickers had no list and drivers left with wrong cartons. Switching to pick → ship with a packing zone, plus barcode scanning on the mobile app, cut wrong deliveries from 6% to under 1% in two months.
Questions and answers
Name three virtual locations.
Vendors, Customers, Inventory adjustment (also Production, Scrap, Transit).
Which deliveries setting adds a packing step?
Pick, pack, ship (3 steps).