Warehouse & Locations

Go to Inventory → Configuration → Warehouses.

Each warehouse has:

• Warehouse Name and Short Name (3-char code, e.g., WH)
• Company — for multi-company setups
• Incoming Shipments — 1, 2, or 3 step receiving
  • 1 step: Receive goods directly into stock
  • 2 steps: Unload to Input location → move to Stock
  • 3 steps: Unload → Quality Control → Stock
• Outgoing Shipments — 1, 2, or 3 step delivery
  • 1 step: Ship directly from stock
  • 2 steps: Pick → Ship
  • 3 steps: Pick → Pack → Ship

For most small/medium businesses, 1-step receiving and 1 or 2-step delivery is appropriate.

Go to Inventory → Configuration → Locations (enable developer mode for full access).

Location types in Odoo:

• Vendor Locations — virtual origin for purchased goods
• View — parent locations used for grouping (not physical)
• Internal — physical storage locations inside your warehouses
• Customer Locations — virtual destination for delivered goods
• Inventory Loss — used for inventory adjustments
• Transit — goods in transit between locations
• Production — raw materials consumed in manufacturing

Internal locations are the ones you’ll create and manage. They form a hierarchical tree: Warehouse → Zone → Row → Shelf → Bin.

Under Inventory → Configuration → Locations, find your warehouse’s Stock location and click New (or open the parent and use the “New” button under child locations).

For each location:

• Location Name — e.g., “Shelf A”, “Row 3”, “Bin A-3-02”
• Parent Location — the location this is inside of
• Location Type — Internal
• Barcode — scan the shelf barcode during picking (optional but recommended)
• Replenish Location — check this if it’s a front-line location that triggers replenishment from bulk storage

Structure example for a small warehouse:

WH/Stock
  ├── WH/Stock/Zone A (Dry Goods)
  │   ├── WH/Stock/Zone A/Shelf 01
  │   └── WH/Stock/Zone A/Shelf 02
  └── WH/Stock/Zone B (Refrigerated)
      └── WH/Stock/Zone B/Shelf 01

Routes define how stock moves through your warehouse — which locations it passes through and in what order.

Go to Inventory → Configuration → Routes.

Standard routes:

• Buy — triggers purchase orders when stock is low
• Manufacture — triggers production orders
• Resupply from — moves stock from one warehouse to another

For each route, you define Rules (push/pull rules):

• Pull rule — stock is pulled from a source when demand exists (demand-driven)
• Push rule — when stock arrives at location A, automatically move it to location B (flow-driven)

Example push rule: When goods arrive at “Input” location → automatically move to “Quality Control” → then to “Stock”.

Putaway rules automatically direct incoming products to specific storage locations instead of the generic “Stock” location.

Go to Inventory → Configuration → Putaway Rules. Click New:

• Product Category or Product — what to apply this rule to
• When product arrives in — the receiving location (e.g., WH/Input)
• Store to — the specific destination (e.g., WH/Stock/Zone A/Shelf 01)
• Capacity — maximum units this location can hold (optional)

With putaway rules, warehouse staff don’t need to decide where to put things — Odoo tells them (or does it automatically with barcode scanning).

If you have multiple warehouses (or want to add one):

1. Go to Inventory → Configuration → Warehouses → New
2. Create the second warehouse with its own short code (e.g., WH2)
3. Configure incoming/outgoing steps independently per warehouse

Inter-warehouse transfers: On a product’s Inventory tab, enable Resupply from WH → select the source warehouse. When WH2 runs low, a transfer order is automatically generated from WH to WH2.

Multi-warehouse reporting: Use the Location filter in Inventory → Reporting → Inventory to compare stock levels across warehouses.