Locations
Every inventory transaction must have a site and location. Both can default from the item master. In QAD EE, each site can have a variety of locations where inventory is stored. Locations can include shelves, bins, tanks, silos, refrigerators, freezers, humidity and or temperature controlled rooms, segregated quarantine or material review areas, or other storage areas. Each location’s parameters identify what can be stored there and how that inventory can be used.
Predefined Locations
Most businesses will have several predefined inventory locations such as raw material and or component inventory, finished goods inventory, and perhaps other locations for sales returns, scrap, quality control quarantine, or material review board. In general the more carefully defined locations you use, the higher level of inventory control you will obtain.
Locations do not have to be predefined. The system can automatically create location codes whenever you enter an undefined value by setting Automatic Locations to Yes in Site Maintenance. While useful in some situations, this offers a very low level of control since anyone with access to inventory transactions can create new locations, possibly as a result of an error.
Inventory location attributes include:
• Description
• A default inventory status code (available, nettable, overissue)
• Whether it is permanent
• A location type code such as tank, silo, freezer
• Restricted to single item (liquid tanks are usually restricted to a single item, for example)
• Restricted to a single lot of a single item (lot-controlled liquids)
• Certain items are assigned to certain locations (location type code associated with the item is matched to location type code of the location)
