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New Location Structure:

Physical locations represent warehouses and their hierarchical structure. These are generally the locations that are managed by traditional stock management systems.

Partner locations represent your customer’s and supplier’s stocks. To reconcile them with your accounts, these stores play the role of third-party accounts. Reception from a supplier can be shown by the movement of goods from a partner location to a physical location in your own company. As you see, supplier locations usually show negative stocks and customer locations usually show positive stocks.

Virtual locations as counterparts for production are used in manufacturing operations. Manufacturing is characterized by the consumption of raw materials and the production of finished products. Virtual locations are used for the counterparts of these two operations.

Inventory locations are counterparts of the stock operations that represent your company’s profit and loss in terms of your stocks.


First it requires to prepare CVS import files, currently we use 4 level structure which follows as : Country, zone, organisation unit, location.

Country Level Import CSV

Import Country level first

Example Table

idcodechained_location_typechained_auto_packingnameusageStock Location LevelCompanyParent LocationOrganisation Unit
stock_rwanda_location_1RWNoneManual OperationRwandaViewCountry

Bboxx Capital Rwanda



Example csv file: stock.location.top.level.csv

Zone Level Import CSV

Please note that Parent Location has to exist in database

idcodechained_location_typechained_auto_packingnameusageStock Location LevelCompanyParent Location
stock_zone_location_1KNoneManual OperationKigali CentralViewZone

Bboxx Capital Rwanda

Rwanda

Example csv file: stock.location.second.level.csv


Organisation Unit Level Import CSV

Please note that both Parent Location and Organisation Unit has to exist in database

idcodechained_location_typechained_auto_packingnameusageStock Location LevelCompanyParent LocationOrganisation Unit
rwanda_stock_shop_130ANoneManual OperationKigaliViewOrganisation UnitBboxx Capital RwandaRwandaKigali

Example csv file: stock.location.third.level.csv

Location Level Import CSV


idcodechained_location_typechained_auto_packingnameusageStock Location LevelCompanyParent Location
stock_shop_location_10MKNoneManual OperationMarketingInternal LocationLocationBboxx Capital RwandaKigali
stock_shop_location_11TINoneManual OperationReplacement inInternal LocationLocationBboxx Capital RwandaKigali
stock_shop_location_12CINoneManual OperationConnectivity Investigation from replacementInternal LocationLocationBboxx Capital RwandaKigali
stock_shop_location_13RINoneManual OperationTo repair InInternal LocationLocationBboxx Capital RwandaKigali
stock_shop_location_14MSNoneManual OperationMain Stock (For sale)Internal LocationLocationBboxx Capital RwandaKigali
stock_shop_location_15LTNoneManual OperationLostInternal LocationLocationBboxx Capital RwandaKigali

Example csv file: stock.location.forth.level.csv


Column NameExplanation
idA unique identifier must be unique in the whole stock location table (Otherwise it will replace old record)
codeIdentifier of location used internally to identify specific locations
chained_location_type

Determines whether this location is chained to another location, i.e. any incoming product in this location
should next go to the chained location. The chained location is determined according to the type:

None: No chaining at all
Customer: The chained location will be taken from the Customer Location field on the Partner

form of the Partner that is specified in the Picking list of the incoming products.
Fixed Location: The chained location is taken from the next field: Chained Location if Fixed.

chained_auto_packing

This is used only if you select a chained location type.


Automatic Move: value will create a stock move after the current one that will be validated automatically.

Manual Operation: the stock move has to be validated by a worker.

Automatic No Step Added: the location is replaced in the original move.

nameName of the location
usage

Supplier Location: Virtual location representing the source location for products coming from your suppliers                        

View: Virtual location used to create a hierarchical structures for your warehouse, aggregating its child locations ; can't directly contain products                        

Internal Location: Physical locations inside your own warehouses,                        

Customer Location: Virtual location representing the destination location for products sent to your customers                        

Inventory: Virtual location serving as counterpart for inventory operations used to correct stock levels (Physical inventories)                        

Procurement: Virtual location serving as temporary counterpart for procurement operations when the source (supplier or production) is not known yet. This location should be empty when the procurement scheduler has finished running.                        

Production: Virtual counterpart location for production operations: this location consumes the raw material and produces finished products

Stock Location Level

Possible options right now:

Country

Zone

Organisation Unit

Location

CompanyCompany name.
Parent LocationIts a relationship field to link another location which would be parent.
Organisation UnitName of the organisation this location is linked (Usually needed only on 3 level)

How to import in ERP

Go to Stock Move tool → Location and then click Import

Once clicked import click browse to upload a file:

After file is uploaded click validate to check if everything is fine


After that if validation is successful click import to import. If its not successful read error message