Subinventories

Subinventories
Subinventories are unique physical or logical separations of material inventory, such as
raw inventory, finished goods, or defective material. All material within an
organization resides in a subinventory. There are two types of subinventories within
Warehouse Management, storage and receiving.
Storage subinventories are intermediate or final put away locations for material.
Material that resides in a storage subinventory appears in on hand quantity, and is
tracked by the system. The system can book orders against, and use manufacturing
processes on material that resides in a storage subinventory. You must define at least
one storage subinventory for your implementation.
Optionally, you can create receiving subinventories to track material in the receiving
area. You use receiving subinventories when you want to track the material as soon as
it enters the warehouse before an operator puts it away. Receiving subinventories
enable managers to see where the material resides as soon as it enters the warehouse.
Material located in a receiving subinventory does not appear in on hand quantity, and
the system cannot reserve the material. An operator can also only specify a receiving
subinventory if they are using a mobile device to receive the material.
Note: Operators cannot transfer material from a storage subinventory to a receiving
subinventory.