Both the locations that you define in your warehouses and the items of inventory that you intend to receive, store, and ship are also important elements in the system. In both cases, though, some additional information is required by the system to manage your inventory procedures in the warehouses.

For locations, you must define groups to which the location belongs (SLG and WLG), and specify a number of fields that control the way that inventory is stored in and picked from the location. QAD Warehousing provides a Warehouse Location Maintenance (4.3.13) function that replaces standard Location Maintenance (1.1.18). You can, therefore, set up all your location details within the warehousing system. Standard Location Maintenance options are not recognized by QAD Warehousing, and are not available for warehouse functions.

For items, the system requires certain additional fields that relate to item storage. However, it does not provide full item maintenance functions. Therefore, you define the basic item data using standard programs, and then use the warehouse item data functions to define the additional warehouse storage information.