AX 2012 R3 – WAX – Locations

Hi,
This blog is going to cover the location setup within AX 2012 R3 WAX.
To best demonstrate this I’m going to deign a simple warehouse with 2 location zones a Nut zone and a Nut free zone.

NOTE – Make sure that your warehouse has been activated to use the warehouse management process.

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Zone group
The first area you will need to setup will be the zone group, Zone groups group multiple zones.

1. Navigate to Warehouse management > Setup > Warehouse setup > Zone groups
2. Click New
3. Create 2 groups NUT and NUT FREE
   
4. Close the form

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Zones
The first area you will need to setup will be the zones, each zone need to belong to a zone Group.

1. Navigate to Warehouse management > Setup > Warehouse setup > Zones
2. Click New
3. Create 2 zones NUT and NUT FREE
   
4. Close the form

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Location formats 
Next you will need to create the location formats which will make up the naming convention for the locations.

1. Navigate to Warehouse management > Setup > Warehouse setup > Location formats
2. Click New
3. Create 2 location formats one for the Nut zone and one for the nut free zone
4. In the details section create a new segment.
   1. Segment description – Enter any description
   2. Length – In my example I’m going use a number sequence length of 3 characters
   3. Separator – This acts as a suffix to the number sequence, I’m going to setup the following:
      1. Nut free = “F”
         1. Example – 000F
      2. Nut zone = “N”
         1. Example – 000N
5. This should leave you with the following:
   
6. Close the form.

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Location profiles 
Next we need to setup the location profiles, these control some of the characteristics of the location.

1. Navigate to Warehouse management > Setup > Warehouse Setup > Location profiles
2. Click New
3. Create 2 profiles NUT and NUT FREE
4. Create the profiles and ensure that the following are selected:
   1. Use License plate tracking – This enables license plate tracking (more info here)
   2. Allow mixed items – Allows mixed items to be stored in a location
   3. Allow mixed inventory status – Allows mixed inventory status in the location
   4. Allow cycle counting – Allows the user to cycle count the location
      
5. Save and close the form

NOTE – AX 2012 R3 WAX does offer the ability to define the location dimensions too.

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Location setup Wizard 
Now that we’ve configured the zones and profiles we’re ready to generate our locations.

1. Navigate to Warehouse management > Setup > Warehouse setup > Location setup Wizard 
2. We are going to be doing two time’s (One for the Nut zone and one for the Non-Nut zone)
3. NUT setup:
   1. In the wizard screen define the following:
      1. Warehouse – [Your warehouse]
      2. Zone ID – NUT
      3. Location profile ID – NUT
   2. This should generate a line in the grid below in this grid we can now define the number of locations we would like. In my example I’m going to create 4 locations so from location 1 to location 4.
      
   3. Once here click Build to generate the locations
   4. This should generate an info log confirming the locations created:
      
4. Repeat this setup for Nut Free zone, the only difference should be:
   1. Zone ID = NUT FREE
   2. Location profile Id = NUT FREE
   3. Select the locations 5 to 10
      
   4. Click Build, and confirm the info log:
      
   5. Close the info log.

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Validate the locations
Next we need to validate that the locations have been created correctly:

1. Navigate to Warehouse management > Setup > Warehouse Setup > Locations 
2. Validate that you have the following:
   
3. close the form.