Locations can be defined as permanent or temporary. When you define a location as permanent, the system maintains all location detail records for that site/location until they are deleted using Zero Balance Delete/Archive (3.23). Since detail records are maintained, locations with zero balances appear on reports.

If you define a location as temporary, the system automatically deletes inventory detail records when the location’s balance falls to zero. It does not delete the location code. Since zero balance locations do not have detail records, they do not appear on reports.