You must plan how Oracle Inventory represents your company's inventory sites and business units. This includes defining organizations, locations, subinventories, and locators.

Before you define inventory structures you should define your ledger and set up required key flexfields. Defining Ledgers and Setup Steps.

• Define locations to use for a variety of functions including receiving and default delivery locations. See: Setting Up Site Locations.

• Define organizations that represent inventory entities (manufacturing facility, warehouse, branch office) in your company. All activity must reference an organization. See: Creating an Organization.

• Enter employee information. This information is the source for lists of values for employee fields throughout the application. See: Entering a New Person.

• Define a workday calendar, also called the manufacturing calendar, that each organization references for planning and scheduling activities. See: Creating a Workday Calendar.

• Define organization parameters. These parameters are the source for default inventory, costing, control, and movement parameters for an organization. See: Organization Parameters.

• Define subinventories that represent physical or logical locations for items within an organization. See: Defining Subinventories.

• Define locators that represent storage structures (for example, aisles or bins) within subinventories. See: Defining Stock Locators.

• Define planners or planning entities for each organization. You assign planners to inventory items at the organization level.

• Define organization access mappings to restrict the organizations a responsibility can access. See: Defining Organization Access.

• Define freight carriers. See: Defining Freight Carriers.