Multiple warehouses and purchasing

If you work with multiple warehouses, you must decide how to deal with this in the purchasing process.

Preparation

• Configuration of multiple warehouses

  Before you can process multiple warehouses, you must first activate the Multiple warehouses functionality in the environment properties.

• Configuration of multiple warehouses and purchase

  If you work with multiple warehouses, you must decide how to deal with this in the purchasing process.

• Configuration of warehouse allocation

  If you work with multiple warehouses, for articles for which you track the stock you can specify that the article can only be stored in certain warehouses. We call this Warehouse allocation. By default warehouse allocation is disabled, and all articles may be stored in all warehouses.

Description

You can choose to purchase per warehouse or to purchase centrally for the entire stock. If you decide to purchase the stock of an article centrally (using one specific warehouse), the article is also delivered centrally. When generating an order proposal, the entire stock, irrespective of the warehouse, is included in the calculation of, for example, the stock to be replenished.

If you have not enabled Central purchasing, an order proposal is generated per warehouse. When the order proposal per warehouse is calculated, the minimum stock and the stock replenishment that you specify on the Stock tab are also replenished per warehouse. If you do not want this to happen, you must use Warehouse allocation and then deviate from the order proposal settings per warehouse.

Note: 

If you use Central purchasing, i.e. order proposals for all articles irrespective of warehouse, you cannot deviate from the order proposal per article with respect to stock replenishment. The stock will always be replenished up to the quantity in the article’s order proposal table and this will be delivered to the Warehouse central purchasing.

Note: 

For this functionality, the Multiple warehouses function must be activated.

Procedure

• Central purchasing with order proposal

  The central purchasing takes place using order proposals. When generating an order proposal, the entire stock, irrespective of the warehouse, is included in the calculation of, for example, the stock to be replenished. The purchase orders that you generate from these order proposals are always delivered to the central warehouse.

• Order proposal per warehouse

  In case of multiple warehouses, Profit automatically generates an order proposal per warehouse if you have not configured 'central purchasing'. When the order proposal per warehouse is calculated, the minimum stock and the stock replenishment that you have specified on the Stock tab per warehouse are also replenished.