Warehouse Master Lists

Warehouses and individual locations are also defined as standard system locations. This enables them to use both the standard system functions and the additional warehouse functions. One instance of this combined functionality is the feature where each item can have a default location. This default location can be a dummy location that is defined as a warehouse. The QAD warehouse functions then take over from standard system functions to find the actual location within the warehouse for the specified item.

However, you may need to specify a different warehouse for the item, depending on the type of inventory transaction being performed. For example, you can receive items in one warehouse, but pick for sales orders in another.

QAD Warehousing supports this by letting you specify master lists of warehouses, which define different warehouses for different transaction types. You can attach one of these warehouse master lists to an item instead of a default location.

Example: When a purchase order line is created, the system examines the Location field in the line. If it identifies the code as a warehouse master list, it looks in the list for the warehouse specified for purchase order receipts. That warehouse is then used as the location for the item.