Locations track inventory across multiple physical warehouses or storage areas.
How iPaaS.com Thinks About Locations
A Location is a place where inventory lives - a retail store, a warehouse, or a virtual location such as a dropship pool. Other systems call it an Inventory Location, Stock Location, Store, Warehouse, or Site.
"Location" means inventory location here. A per-order ship-to address and a company's head office are not Locations. A delivery address belongs on a transaction or customer; a company facility belongs on the company record. This model is only the stable, inventory sense of the word.
Location is the anchor of the inventory layer: every inventory record must point at a Location, so locations are a hard prerequisite for any quantity sync (always sync Locations before Inventory). It's also where iPaaS.com absorbs the different ways systems model "where stock is" - a 3PL's warehouses, a retailer's stores, a storefront's single implicit pool all become Location records that inventory keys against. Locations can nest into a hierarchy and be pooled through Location Groups, so one physical network can be represented at whatever granularity each connected system needs. Each location carries a single address (the phone number lives there), and can carry typed relationships to other locations.
Related concepts: Locations: Hierarchies, Relationships & Addresses, Location Groups, Inventory. See also Data Domains.
Adding Locations
You can add a name and description for the location. Physical addresses and location relationships can be added on the location record from the edit form.
To add a location:
Click Data Management > Locations. iPaaS.com displays the Locations form.
Click Add Location.
On the Locations form, enter a Name and a Description.
Click Apply. iPaaS.com adds the location.
Editing Locations
You can edit the name and description and use Custom Fields and External IDs.
To edit locations:
On the Locations form, select the location from the list and click the edit icon.You can also search by using the filter or by Name and Description.
On the Locations form, make any changes to the Name and Description.
(Optional) You can add or edit Custom Fields and External IDs. See Custom Fields and External IDs for those procedures.
When complete, click Apply, and the record is updated.