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Working with multiple warehouses

Learn how to use multiple warehouses in Inventory Planner.

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Written by Sara Jaffer
Updated over a week ago

Optimizing stock across locations

If you have enabled more than one warehouse, it can be helpful to see stock levels across locations. If you need to transfer stock, balance stock at various locations or compare inventory levels across warehouses, then the Compare Warehouses report can help.

Recommended workflow with multiple warehouses

When you have more than one warehouse enabled, this will very often include a combined warehouse to see total demand. When using combined warehouses, we recommend the following workflow to handle inventory replenishment.

  • Start with the Compare Warehouses report to balance stock across locations.

  • Go to Replenishment and use the combined warehouse view to create a purchase order based on total forecasted customer demand.

Replenishment for multiple warehouses

To view replenishment recommendations for a combined warehouse, go to Replenishment, then filter by the combined warehouse.

You'll see replenishment recommendations for all sales channels that feed into the combined warehouse, as well as the combined stock levels. Note that depending on your configuration, the channels contributing to the stock levels may differ to those whose sales history you're taking into account.

You'll also need to set lead times and days of stock for your combined warehouse. Bear in mind that the lead time for your combined warehouse will cover the period of time between placing a purchase order with your supplier and receiving the shipment. If you need to send part of that shipment from one warehouse to another, the lead time for the destination warehouse should be set as the transit time.

Creating purchase orders with multiple warehouses

When creating a PO based on the combined warehouse view, you will need to select a different destination warehouse. This is done because the combined warehouse is a virtual warehouse and the inventory will be delivered to a physical warehouse.

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