As one of your business management tools, having an effective stock management system in place can significantly improve operations. Businesses that want to keep their customers coming back must be able to quickly and efficiently meet ever-increasing customer demands.
The Odoo Inventory module is excellent for managing inventories in your company. This is vital because unorganized warehouses can cause a variety of problems. The activities involved in stock management include purchasing the items, selling and delivering the stock, as well as storing, tracking, and organizing the stock in your warehouse.
Putaway Rules in Odoo are useful when you want to automatically organize products to their proper destination. ODOO 16 Inventory – Putaway Rules help to avoid storing products wrongly.
Navigate to the Inventory Module > Configurations > Settings > Activate Storage Locations to enable Putaway Rules in Odoo Inventory
We can access the Putaway Rules from the Configurations menu under Warehouse Management.
You will redirect to the following screen after selecting the Putaway Rules menu.
We can access all the Putaway Rules configured against the locations and warehouses from this page.
We can access all the Putaway Rules configured against the locations and warehouses from this page.
Tap the CREATE button to make a new rule.
Here, you can select the source location from the ‘When product arrives in’ column.
Choose the product for which the rule is configured in the ‘Product’ column.
We can select the location where the product should store from the ‘Store to sublocation’ column
Tap the SAVE button to save the putaway rule.
As a result of the preceding rule, the product ‘Small Shelf’ will be transferred to the location ‘LITS/Stock’ once it arrives at ‘LITS2’.
We can configure many Putaway Rules as possible against all products using this.
Because putaway rules are set against locations, you can check what rules are set against a particular location.
Navigate to Inventory Module > Configurations > Locations to do so.
You will be taken to the following screen-
Select the location you want to check.
Tap the Putaway Rule option to view the rules associated with the selected location.
Odoo 16 inventory Storage Categories in Putaway Rules
Storage Categories in Odoo are additional location attributes. these categories enable the user to specify the number of products that can be kept in a location. The user can also specify how putaway rules will be used to choose the location.
Navigate to the Inventory Module > Configurations > Settings > Activate Storage Categories to enable Storage Categories.
Either from the panel shown above or by going to Inventory > Configurations. > Storage Categories, you may manage the storage categories.
You can add a new category by tapping the CREATE button, which will take you to the screen shown below-
Here,
– Storage Category is where you should provide a name for the category.
– Max Weight is where you define the largest capacity of the storage category.
– Allow New Product has the following three options:
· If the location is empty: Only allows new products if the storage location is empty
·All the products are the same: Only allows new products only if all the selected products are the same.
· Allow mixed products: Allows all types of products to storage locations.
– Capacity By-
Packages: Select the already define Packages you want to be managed by the storage category. Then define the quantity of the same. You can define as many packages as you want. You can define their quantity until the largest defined weight is reached.
Products: Select the products you want to manage by the storage category. Then define the quantity of the same.You can define as many products as you want. You can define their quantity until the largest defined weight is reached.
As shown in the screen below, you can now select and assign the defined Storage Categories. You can also create a new Put Away Rule under the Having Category column.
With all the above mentioned actions and features, you can effectively manage stock.
Managing your stock well gives you the best chance of business success.
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