Warehousing Training Guide
- Van Ho (Deactivated)
- Sharon Harden (Unlicensed)
- Peter Drill
- John Nairn (Unlicensed)
Assumed Knowledge
Before you attempt the warehousing training guide, you must complete:
- The Readysell overview training guide
- The Inventory Training Guide
- The segments of the Purchasing Training Guide dealing with receipting purchase orders and invoicing purchase orders
- The segments of the Sale Order And Shipment Training Guide dealing with scan checking of sale shipments as they leave the warehouse
The skills covered by the training guide segments listed above are taken as assumed knowledge. Do not proceed with this segment of the training guide until you have reviewed the training guide segments listed above and successfully completed the skills test at the end of those earlier training guide segments. You can't successfully complete this segment of the training guide without the skills covered in those earlier segments. There are no effective short-cuts! Don't sell yourself short by skipping those essential skills.
Warehousing Overview
The key features of warehousing include:
- All stock is scanned in and scanned out
- Internal stock movements are handled by scanning and mobile devices
- Warehousing relies on proper warehouse stock locations and zones from the start
- Bar coded location labels on all bins enable use of mobile wireless devices greatly improving warehouse efficiency
- Receipting is scan checked in with back order stock put aside into a back order area rather than being put on shelves
- Stock put way is handled by mobile wireless devices
- Stock picking is handled by mobile wireless devices
- Stock is replenished from bulk locations to fast pick retail or technician's truck's as locations using mobile wireless devices
- Freight integration is used to optimize freight speed and charges
Warehousing Video Training
Watch those training videos on warehousing:
(Before using any videos, don't get stuck with viewing a tiny image, see How To Play Videos )
Warehouse Key Skills
Star Rating | How To | Skill | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| * | Consider making a separate site for education stock and sales | Consider creating multiple sites if you have more than one warehouse or if you handle a lot of education stock. | |
| * | You Must Get The Location And Warehouse Layout Right Before You Start. Plan and implement your warehouse location layout | Plan the sites, zones and locations for your warehouse. Then enter all the sites, zones and locations into Readysell before you start using the system | |
| * | Setup retail locations as quarantine if you have a retail area in the same site as your warehouse stock | Consider setting your retail location/s to a supply type of quarantine if you have retail and warehouse areas in the same building | |
| **** | Start stock adjustments list view from the inventory navigation panel. Click on new, enter a product to be adjusted and a reason for adjustment, then Finalize the stock quantity adjustment | ||
| * | Automated Warehousing helps coordinate release of sale back orders, sale order picking and stock receipting | See Automated Warehousing Training Guide | |
| * | Enter min/max stock levels into some product locations. Then use a stock replenishment run to generate a stock transfer into those locations | ||
| * | Enter min/max stock levels into some product locations. Then use a stock replenishment run to generate a stock transfer into those locations | ||
| * | Create a stock location to stand for a truck. Transfer some stock into the location. In users, assign a location to a user who is a technician. Then post some service orders for that technician that use up some of the stock in the truck location. Use a stock replenishment run to replenish stock in the truck | ||
| Locations in administration | Manage stock locations for a retail store where a lot of the stock is hanging stock in a retail environment |
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