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2.4 Designing and Labeling Sites and Locations
2.4.1 What is a Site?
The term Site is used to describe any grouping of locations where you plan to store and track inventory.
Usually a site is a warehouse building but it can be an office, a truck or a field, etc.
Site design may be simple if your entire inventory is stored your two warehouses. If this is the case you
can just use the name of the warehouse as the site description. Use a simple site number like W100 in
case you ever need to type the site number into a handheld device. For the site number you can use any
easily identifiable information about the site like its address or its designation like 140010th or W1400.
Since this product only has two levels of location tracking, you need to design your sites to describe all
the levels above the actual physical location of the inventory.
If you have trucks that are tied to a warehouse you can make their site description a composite of the
warehouse and truck number, W1400T12. If you have a different buildings containing various rooms in
which items will be stored, make a composite name of the building and room number, B201R10. You
should always make the site number something that can be barcoded so that it can be printed and
scanned. See
Barcode Best Practices .
2.4.2 What is a Location?
For the purpose of keeping track of your inventory items, your locations should represent the placement
within the site. If your site is a warehouse, the locations are shelves or racks. If your site is a building,
the locations may be offices. If you have a fleet of trucks, the locations may be containers in the truck.
When deciding how to label each location, choose a numbering scheme that can be interpreted when
reading just the label. For example, if you have 7 rows of 5 shelves each and each shelf has 4 levels,
your barcode label scheme should look like A010200 or Row A, Shelf 01, Level 02, Bin 00. If you have
inventory on trucks in containers, the truck can be a site and each bin in the truck is a location. Each bin
should get a numeric location designation like 100, 200 or 200. If you do not have locations within the
truck, each truck can be a location: T1, T2, T3. Put a label on the inside of the truck door so the person
moving inventory into the truck can just scan and move. The label barcode should have the barcode and
the human readable text description of the location as well.
2.4.3 Labeling Sites and Locations
Every location where inventory can be stored in your warehouse should have a printed barcode securely
attached near the location. This is important because adding, removing or moving inventory using the
InventoryControl software requires a location. All processes that require a location are both sped up and
made more accurate if you use a barcode to identify each location. Also using a consistent numbering
scheme makes finding items in the warehouse much easier. These labels can be stuck to the frame of
the shelves, attached to the bin, put on a card and hung from the racks or even stuck to the floor as in the
example below:
The first step for designing your labels is to decide on what type of label to print the barcode. A variety of
barcode label stock exists that can withstand any environment. There are two kinds of barcode label
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