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Business Benefits

This option reduces the time required to generate multiple "Visual" locations that differ from their related "Internal" locations. See the "Usage" section on how this is accomplished.

Note: For related documentation and workflows, see SL - Stock Locator.

Usage

A "Visual" location (e.g., AA-1-01 = Row "AA", Tier "1" and Bin "01) is the code associated with a physical location in the warehouse and which holds specific stock after it is received into inventory, moved, counted, adjusted, etc.

An "Internal" location is a system-required code associated with a physical location code that is NEVER seen by users but linked to the visual location code to provide (amongst other things) verified and active put-away functionality to ensure stock is placed in a valid location.

An Internal location always has the following format AASCCCTT where:

AA S CCC TT

= Aisle = Side = Column = Tier

For example, the location code AA-00101 represents the following:

Aisle: AA
Side: "-" (to indicate no side)
Column: 001
Tier: 01

If the Visual location code does NOT match the format of the Internal location code then it will be necessary to use this option to "map" the Internal location code to the required Visual location code.

For example, with the following mismatch ...

Internal Location: AA-00101
Visual location: AA-1-01 (Aisle AA, Tier 1, Bin 01)

... the following Mapping would need to be implemented:

Visual	In Relation to Internal Code
Aisle	Start at position 1, length of 2
Filler	Start at position 3, length of 1
Tier	Start at position 8, length of 1
Filler	Start at position 3, length of 1
Bin	Start at position 5, length of 2

Related Videos: Map Visual Locations Note: To exit a video completely, click the e-Z Learn (back) button.

Preconditions

Prior to using this option determine the Mapping requirements from the Internal to the Visual location.

Optionally you may also create a list of valid Tiers (for the Internal location code) in the following job option SL.84 [Tier Characteristics].

Subsequent Actions

Generate a series of locations, with the Mapping rules you just defined, by using the following option SL.90 [Locations].

Program Fields and Functions

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