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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Using warehouses</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Warehousing</Level1>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>inventory</Level1>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>locations</Level1>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<AimSection><Paragraph><Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#Warehouse.tc" role="glossary">Warehouses</Link> are places where goods are stored.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>You can optionally divide a warehouse in locations or zones.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>Purchased and produced goods can be stored in warehouses. These goods are retrieved from the warehouse later on for production, sales, service, or transport to another warehouse.</Paragraph>
	</AimSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>To define warehouses</SectionTitle>
		<Paragraph>Warehouses are initially defined in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/mcs/tcmcs0103s000" role="session">Warehouses (tcmcs0103s000)</GUIRef> session in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc" role="package">Common Data</GUIRef>. Here you can define addresses for each warehouse and data that relates to its type.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>Information about warehouses that is only used in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef> is defined in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/wmd/whwmd2500m000" role="session">Warehouses (whwmd2500m000)</GUIRef> session. In this session you can, for example, define:</Paragraph>
		<List><ListItem>Whether a warehouse is location-controlled.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>The default location data.</ListItem>
		</List>
		<Paragraph>Warehouses are used throughout all the modules of <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>To register item data for each warehouse</SectionTitle>
		<Paragraph>To get information about item data for each warehouse, you can view or report the item data by warehouse in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/wmd/whwmd2510m000" role="session">Warehouse - Item (whwmd2510m000)</GUIRef> or the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/wmd/whwmd2410m000" role="session">Print Warehouse - Items Inventory (whwmd2410m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>The information that you can view or change in these sessions includes, for example, the following:</Paragraph>
		<List><ListItem>Safety stock</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Reorder point</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Forecast method</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Pricing information</ListItem>
		</List>
		<Paragraph>Item data (by warehouse) is used to do the following:</Paragraph>
		<List><ListItem>Calculate the demand forecast</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Advise purchase and production orders</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Maintain purchase and production orders</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Maintain inventory transactions</ListItem>
		</List>
	</GeneralSection>
	<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tc/domains/typw" role="domain">Warehouse type</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/wh/onlinemanual/wmd00230" role="manual">Using the bill of enterprise</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/wh/onlinemanual/wmd00310" role="manual">Using locations</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/wh/onlinemanual/wmd00320" role="manual">Using zones</Link>
		</RelTopic>
	</RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>
