Warehouse Zone (3PL)

A zone is a part of a 3PL warehouse: a chamber, a floor or an area kept for one customer. Every line of a 3PL receipt, release or adjustment says which zone the goods are in.

Where

3PL Warehouse › General › Warehouse Zone

Who uses it

The implementation consultant, or the 3PL operations manager

When

At setup, after the 3PL warehouses

Needs first

Warehouse (3PL), and the customer if the zone is dedicated to one

What it is for

Zones let the receipt say more than "in the port warehouse": "in chamber 2 of the port warehouse". Warehouse Zone is required on every receipt and release line.

The one rule people get wrong

The Warehouse Zone lookup on a document line offers every zone, whatever warehouse is on the line. Nothing checks that the zone belongs to the line's warehouse, or that a customer's zone is used only for that customer. Name zones so the warehouse is obvious, such as KHI-CH2.

Every field in plain words

Field	What it means	What to put
Warehouse Zone	The code	A short code such as KHI-CH2. Required
Name	The name people see	Such as Port warehouse chamber 2. Required. Kept per language
Warehouse Type	A free description of the kind of storage	Such as Chilled, Ambient, Open yard. Recorded only
Warehouse	The 3PL warehouse the zone is in	Pick it. Recorded only: see the note above
Customer	The customer the zone is kept for, if any	Pick a customer, or leave empty. Recorded only

How to configure it

Make one zone per physical area people need to name when they receive or release goods. A warehouse with no areas still needs one zone, because the document lines require one.

Scenarios

• A cold store with four chambers. Four zones, CH1 to CH4, each with Warehouse Type Chilled and the cold store as Warehouse.
• A customer rents a caged area. One zone with that customer in Customer. Tell the receiving staff to pick it for that customer's goods: the screen will not do it for them.

What it is connected to

• Warehouse (3PL) - the building the zone is in.
• Warehouse Receipt, Warehouse Release, Adjustment - each line names a zone.

If something looks wrong

• The zone lookup shows zones of other warehouses. Expected: the lookup lists every zone. Pick by the code.
• There is no Block tick on this screen. The layout has a place for it, but the screen has no Block field configured, so it is never shown.