Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

Setting up the warehouse and locations

The warehouse refers to the physical buildings where the stock is stored. You can locate rooms within a building with the logical space called locations. The requirement for a small shop is to have a stock location which is a single location called stock while a big warehouse is required to identify multiple locations such as cold storage and dry locations. A big warehouse wants to drill down the identification of a location by the rooms, cupboards, or racks organized in rows and columns.

Imagine you have a million products stored in a warehouse at thousands of locations. How difficult it would be to organize the warehouse, when you have thousands of locations and each location has to be identified uniquely ...