TABLE OF CONTENTS

Naming Locations

There are various potential options for new location names if you decide that you will be naming the new warehouse differently. Note: these all follow the same configuration of Row-Bay-Tier-Slot.

 

01-01-A-02

6A14B1

A:8:A:145

101-9-1-2 (Standard Format)

Moving Inventory

There are multiple options when moving your inventory from one warehouse to another with WOS.

 

  1. For the “easiest” move, your team should make sure that all of the locations the current warehouse get created in the new warehouse.  When your team is ready to move the inventory:
  • Apply a label or sticky note to the inventory in your current warehouse, showing which location it’s in
  • Remove the inventory from the shelf and transport it to the new warehouse
  • Place the inventory onto the shelf that matches the location from the old warehouse
  • Pros: No scanning, inventory stays where it is as far as WOS location
  • Cons: Can’t rearrange the new warehouse, system can’t tell what has been moved

 

  1. Another option is to perform a single “move” function.  Very similar to the above, but this works better if the new warehouse has entirely new locations so there isn’t any overlap.  When your team is ready to move inventory:
  • Apply a label or sticky note to the inventory in your current warehouse, showing which location it’s in
  • Remove the inventory from the shelf and transport it to the new warehouse
  • At the new warehouse, perform a “Move” function out of the location on the label into the new location in the new warehouse
  • Pros: Single transaction to move inventory into a new location, transactions can show where something came from and went to
  • Cons: Requires a label on the items before it’s moved to the new warehouse

 

  1. Whether you use all your old locations, or add new ones as well, your team could clear out the inventory at the current warehouse and then do a cycle count or put at the new warehouse for created inventory.  When your team is ready to move inventory:
  • Pull the inventory off the shelf in WOS and transport it to the new warehouse
    • An Inventory Pull or a Cycle Count can be used.  
    • Cycle Count provides the benefit that the quantity doesn’t need to be known.  Count the location as Empty and it will clear out whatever is there
  • Put the inventory onto the shelf in the new warehouse
  • Pros: Labels aren’t needed before moving inventory
  • Cons: No accountability to make sure the quantity in the old warehouse is fully moved to the new warehouse