Facilities

A facility is a physical site: a warehouse, a distribution centre or a fulfilment centre. Its zones, storage layout and equipment all belong to it, so creating a facility is the first step in setting up jtWMS.

Before you start

• Viewing facilities needs warehouseconfig.facilities.read. Creating, editing and deleting them needs warehouseconfig.facilities.manage.
• Tenant Admin and Warehouse Manager hold both. Operator and Read-Only API Client can view only.

The Edit and Delete buttons are shown to everyone who can open the page, but the action is refused for users without warehouseconfig.facilities.manage.

Create a facility

1. In the sidebar, under Configuration, click Facilities.
2. Click Create facility. If you have no facilities yet, click Create your first facility.
3. Under Details, fill in:
   • Name — required, up to 200 characters, such as London DC.
   • Code — letters, digits and hyphens, up to 50 characters, unique within your organisation, such as LON-01.
   • Type — Warehouse, Distribution Center or Fulfillment Center.
4. Under Location, choose the Time zone the site works in. It starts as your browser’s time zone.
5. Under Address, fill in:
   • Line 1 — required, up to 200 characters.
   • Line 2 — optional, up to 200 characters.
   • City — required, up to 100 characters.
   • State / Region — optional, up to 100 characters.
   • Postal code — required, up to 20 characters.
   • Country — a two-letter ISO country code, such as GB or US.
6. Click Create facility.

The facility appears in the list. If another facility already uses the code, the form shows the error on Code.

View a facility

1. On the Facilities list, click the facility’s name.
2. The facility’s page shows:
   • Overview — the time zone, the Code pattern its location codes are built from, and when it was created and last updated.
   • Address.
   • Topology — links to the facility’s zone profiles, storage topology, equipment layout, and import and export.

The code pattern can’t be changed in the app. See How location codes are formed.

Tip

The Current facility selector in the header remembers the facility you’re working in, and the worker app uses the same choice. Opening a facility’s page selects it.

Edit a facility

1. On the Facilities list, click Edit on the facility’s row. On the facility’s page, click Edit.
2. Change any field. The rules are the same as when you created it.
3. Click Save changes.

Delete a facility

1. On the Facilities list, click Delete on the facility’s row. On the facility’s page, click Delete.
2. In the Delete facility dialog, click Delete facility.

Caution

A deleted facility is removed from the app and from every list. Deleting can’t be undone in jtWMS.

Related

• Zone profiles
• Storage topology
• Equipment layout
• Import and export