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added some detail about link between Warehouse & Warehouse account & machanics of sub-warehousese (Warehouse >Room >Row > Shelf >box
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A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used
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by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses,
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customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of
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cities, towns, and villages. They mostly have loading docks to load and unload
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goods from trucks.
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The terminology of 'Warehouse" in ERPNext is a bit broader though and maybe can be
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regarded as "storage locations". For example you can create a sub-Warehouse which
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practically is a shelf inside your actual location.
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This can become quite a detailed Tree like >Warehouse >Room >Row >Shelf >Box
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To go to Warehouse, click on Stock and go to Warehouse under Setup. You
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could also switch to 'Tree' View or simply type warehouse tree in the awsone bar.
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<img class="screenshot" alt="Warehouse" src="{{docs_base_url}}/assets/img/stock/warehouse.png">
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In ERPNext, every Warehouse must belong to a specific company, to maintain
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company wise stock balance. In order to do so each Warehouse is linked with an
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Account in the Chart of Accounts (by default of the the same name as the Warehouse
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itself) which captures the monetary equivalent of the goods or materials stored
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in that specific warehouse. If you have a more detailed Warehouse Tree as the one
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described above most likely it's a good idea to link the sub-locations (>room >row >Shelf, ...)
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to the account of the actual Warehouse (the root Warehouse of that Tree) as most
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scenarios do not require to account for value of stock items per Shelf or Box.
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Warehouses are saved with their respective company’s abbreviations. This facilitates
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identifying which Warehouse belongs to which company, at a glance.
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You can include user restrictions for these Warehouses. In case you do not
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wish a particular user to operate on a particular Warehouse, you can refrain
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the user from accessing that Warehouse.
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> Note: ERPNext system maintains stock balance for every distinct combination
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of Item and Warehouse. Thus you can get stock balance for any specific Item in
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a particular Warehouse on any particular date.
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