Warehouse locations are shelf, bin or rack labels on each variant, for example B.L09.3.0. They tell your warehouse team where an item sits, and TRAEDE can use them to sort picking lists and shipment documents. Each variant has a main Warehouse location and an optional Secondary warehouse location.

Important: Warehouse locations do not hold stock quantities. Stock is tracked per inventory location, such as "Danish warehouse" or "German warehouse". A warehouse location only tells you where in the warehouse an item sits.

Warehouse location vs. inventory location

A warehouse location isn't linked to a specific inventory location. You can use any format, because TRAEDE doesn't validate the text.

Setting locations on a product

1. Open the product and scroll to the Variants table.
2. Click Columns.
3. Tick Secondary warehouse location. Only Warehouse location is shown by default.
4. Click Quick edit.
5. Type the location labels for each variant.
6. Click Save.

Tip: Your column choice is saved in your browser. Colleagues, or you on another computer, may see different columns.

Anyone who can edit product data can change warehouse locations.

Other ways to set locations

• Product import: Use the columns Warehouse location and Secondary warehouse location. An empty cell clears the existing value, so leave the column out of the file if you don't want to change it.
• Warehouse scanner: Scan the item and open the edit variant screen and scan the warehouse label (or enter the location name manually)

You can't set warehouse locations from Add variants, the Update data bulk action, the product master data form or the bulk product editor.

Where warehouse locations are used

Sorting picks by warehouse location

Sorting by location lets the warehouse team walk the warehouse in shelf order, so they don't have to jump between aisles. Sorting uses the main Warehouse location only.

1. Go to app store -> shipments
2. Enable Sort items by warehouse location in warehouse scanner and on shipment document.
3. Optional: enable Treat warehouse location as a number if your locations are numbers. This sorts 2 before 10. Without it, 10 comes before 2.
4. Click Save.

Packing routes also follow the main warehouse location.

Printing shelf labels

Location labels you enter are also saved in a list of shelf locations. You can print barcode labels from that list and put them on your shelves, so the team can scan them during stock counts.

1. Go to settings -> warehouse locations
2. Select the shelf locations you want labels for.
3. Click either download warehouse labels or Print warehouse labels

Related articles

• Creating and managing inventory locations — where stock quantities are tracked
• Selling from multiple inventory locations — how stock from several warehouses is used for order