Stock Locations Basic Logistics Configuration

268 · Operation 4 You can then set the locations a product or a routing must go through in the relevant form. All products that enter the production chain will automatically follow the predetermined path. You can see the location structure using Warehouse → Inventory Control → Location Structure Figure 20.18: Logistics for a given product To improve your logistics, you will see further on in this chapter how you can set minimum stock rules for different locations to guarantee security stocks for assembly operators. Reports on the state of stocks in different locations will rapidly show you the bottlenecks in your production chain.

20.5 Logistics Configuration in a Multi-Company Environment

To configure your logistics in multi-company environment you need to install stock_location module. This module supplements the Warehouse application by adding support for location paths per product, effectively implementing Push and Pull inventory flows. Typically this could be used to: • Manage product manufacturing chains, • Manage default locations per product, • Define routes within your warehouse according to business needs, such as: – Quality Control – After Sales Services – Supplier Returns • Help rental management, by generating automated return moves for rented products. Once this module is installed, an additional Logistics Flows tab appears in the product form, where you can add Push and Pull flow specifications.

20.5.1 Push Flows

Push flows are useful when the arrival of certain products in a given location should always be followed by a corresponding move to another location, optionally after a certain delay. 269 Note: The core Warehouse application already supports such Push Flow specifications on the Locations, but these cannot be refined per product. A push flow specification indicates what location is chained with another location, as well as the parameters used. As soon as a given quantity of products is moved in the source location, a chained move is automatically foreseen according to the parameters set on the flow specification destination location, delay, type of move, journal, etc. The new move may be automatically processed, or may require a manual confirmation, depending on the parameters. Suppose whenever the product CPU3 enters the Stock location, it first has to be moved to the Quality Control location in order to maintain the quality. Look up the product CPU3 using the menu Warehouse → Product → Products. To have OpenERP accomplish this, configure the push flow as follows: • Operation: Receptions to Quality Control • Source Location: Stock • Destination Location: Quality Control • Automatic Move: Automatic No Step Added • Delay days: 1 • Shipping Type: Getting Goods Figure 20.19: Push Flow Specification for Product CPU3 A push flow is related to how stock moves should be generated in order to increase or decrease inventory.