MANAGE WAREHOUSES

Use this screen to establish warehouses where materials can be received and stored as inventory. When the warehouse is established, you can assign transaction IDs, location structure, and default locations for Receiving for each warehouse.

Establish warehouses when initializing Costpoint Inventory and before processing inventory transactions. You can maintain warehouses whenever modifications are needed to existing warehouses.

Location

Identification

Use this block to enter the warehouse identification information.

Warehouse ID

Enter a warehouse ID.

Name

Enter a description of the warehouse ID.

Active

Select this check box to indicate that the warehouse is active. This defaults to selected, otherwise clear the check box to if the warehouse is inactive.

Details

Use this group box enter the warehouse detail information.

Address

Use this group box to enter the address for this warehouse.

Line 1

Enter the first address line for this warehouse.

Line 2

Enter the second address line for this warehouse.

Line 3

Enter the third address line for this warehouse.

City

Enter the city for this warehouse address.

State

Enter, or click to select, the state/province for this warehouse address. The state/province entered must exist on the Manage States and Provinces table in Costpoint Administration. This is a required field for warehouses in the United States.

Postal Code

Enter, or click to select, the postal code for this warehouse address. If the postal code entered already exists in the Manage Postal Codes table in Costpoint Administration, the city, state, and country will automatically be loaded. If the postal code does not exist, the city, state/province, country, and postal code entered on this screen will be added to the Postal Codes table.

Country

Enter, or click to select, the country for this warehouse address. The country assigned to the State entered will load here, but can be modified.

Shipping

This group box contains the shipping information for this warehouse.

Ship ID

Enter a unique ship ID for this warehouse. This ship ID cannot already exist in the Purchasing Ship ID table. You can also assign Ship ID information to vendors (on the Manage Vendors screen), customers (in Costpoint Sales Order Entry), and branch locations (on the Manage Branch Locations screen in Costpoint Purchasing). You can view all ship ID information that has been established on the View Ship IDs screen in Costpoint Purchasing. If you select the Plan Warehouse Separately check box on the Corporate Settings block of the Configure Materials Requirements Planning Settings screen in Costpoint Materials Requirement Planning, you must enter a ship ID for each warehouse ID.

Ship ID Active

This check box indicates if the Ship ID is active.

Name

Enter a name for this ship ID.

Ext

Enter the extended name for this ship ID.

Description

Enter a description for this ship ID.

Sales Tax Code

Enter, or click to select, the sales tax code for this shipping ID. This sales tax code must already exist in the Sales Tax Code table in Costpoint Administration.

Default Locations

Use this group box to assign default locations for each warehouse, where inventory items that are received will be stored. Set up this block after establishing location IDs on the Manage Locations screen.

PO Receiving

Enter, or click to select, the location ID to be the default receiving location for this warehouse on the Manage Purchase Order Receipts screen in Costpoint Receiving. The location ID selected must have a Location Type of Incoming Inspection on the Manage Locations screen.

QC Rejection

Enter, or click to select, the location ID to be the default rejection location for this warehouse when items are rejected for QC purposes. The location ID selected must have a Location Type of Reinspection or On-Hold on the Manage Locations screen.

MRB

Enter, or click to select, the location ID to be the default location for this warehouse when using MRB. The location ID selected must have Location Type of MRB on the Manage Locations screen.

QC Acceptance

Enter, or click to select, the location ID to be the default acceptance location for this warehouse when items are accepted into inventory. The location ID must have a Location Type of On-Hand or Shipping on the Manage Locations screen.

Subtasks

Subtask

Description

Transaction IDs

Click this link to open the Transaction IDs subtask, where you can assign transaction IDs for the selected warehouse.

Location Structure

Click this link to open the Location Structure subtask, where you can set up the location ID structure for the selected warehouse.