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   <Header>
      <Title>Using warehouses</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e2638495">
         <Level1>Warehousing</Level1>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e2638498">
         <Level1>inventory</Level1>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e2638501">
         <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</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">Warehousing</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">Warehousing</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">Type of warehouse</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>