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3.4 Setting Up Sites and Locations Business Examples
Note: For step-by-step instructions on adding sites, please refer to the topic Creating New Sites . For
step-by-step instructions on adding locations, please refer to the topic Creating New Locations .
Business Type: Distributing - Multiple Sites/Multiple Locations
Sebastian's Distributing has two warehouses. Each warehouse contains various bins, shelves, etc that
will physically contain the inventory. Since this business has multiple warehouses, each warehouse can
be setup as a Site, then multiple locations can be created within each site to represent the specific areas
where inventory will be stored.
They want to set up their site names based on the city where the warehouse is located and their location
names based on where the inventory is kept within the site. However, they also want the ability to scan
their sites/locations using the handheld barcode scanners, so they know the site/locations should be a
short combination of numbers and characters. Since their warehouses are located in Guthrie, Oklahoma
and Plano, Texas they want the Site Description to be Guthrie Warehouse and Plano Warehouse. The
Site Codes are set up as numbers: 100G for the Guthrie warehouse and 101P for the Plano warehouse.
They follow a similar pattern with their locations. The Location Description details where and what the
location is (Guthrie Wrehouse, Row A, Shelf 01, Bin 00) and the Location Code is a scannable
abbreviation of this (GA0100).
Although this business has only two sites, it has many locations; therefore, they create a .csv file of the
sites and locations by exporting this information from the old inventory system and importing it into
InventoryControl. For details on importing, refer to the topics
Importing Into the Database and Import
Specifics/Database Properties . After importing, each site and location should be manually reviewed in
InventoryControl to make sure all information is included.
Business Type: Fleet - Multiple Sites/Multiple Locations with From/To Sites Set on the Mobile
Devices
The owner of Rusty's Cable Company has narrowed down his options for setting up his sites and
locations to two possibilities. He can define the base garage as the site with each vehicle being a
location, along with a storage area setup as a location as well. In this instance the site could be named
Docking1 and the vehicles set up with names consisting of the abbreviation VEH followed by the last four
digits of the VIN number for that vehicle. Alternatively, each vehicle could be set up as a site with one
location. For example, the site might be VEH plus the last four digits of the VIN, such as VEH1234, with
locations being the various bins and shelves within the vehicles. The flexibility of the site/location design
allows companies such as Rusty's fleet business to conform the software to fit their needs.
Rusty has decided to set up his storage area as a site with locations of shelves and his vehicles as sites
with one location because he knows that he can use the Site Configuration screen to make each mobile
device specific to a vehicle. The Site Configuration screen on the mobile devices allows him to
designate one site as the From (Remove, Move, Pick) site and one as the To (Add, Mov e, Receive) site.
He can make the From and To sites the same sites, if needed.
Since the usual transfer of inventory for his business flows directly to the vehicles via add/receive, then to
the customer via remove, he can set up the From and To sites as the specific vehicles. When his
employees then use the device, any lists and searches are limited to the locations contained in that
specific vehicle when adding or removing inventory. If employees need to move inventory from the
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