Warehousing Elements
QAD Warehousing provides highly flexible and adaptable warehousing functions that let you integrate a full range of inventory management features into your business.
Without QAD Warehousing, system software recognizes sites and locations; however, running a complex warehousing operation using only these elements is limiting. QAD Warehousing introduces a set of new elements that let you be very specific about the way you receive, store, and pick your inventory.
These new elements start at the warehouse level. In QAD Warehousing, a warehouse is the highest level of specific data. The other elements of warehousing are all subsidiary to the warehouses. They represent ways of:
• Arranging storage locations within each warehouse
• Defining the routes through the warehouses that you want your inventory to take
• Handling the inventory management transactions that are involved in managing your warehousing activities on a day-to-day basis
The following main elements of QAD Warehousing are introduced:
• Warehouses
• Internal Routing Groups (IRGs)
• Internal Routings (IRs)
• Storage Location Groups (SLGs)
• Work Location Groups (WLGs)
• Locations
• Items
• Units of Measure (UM)
• Algorithms
• Transaction types
• Engine processes