You use locators to identify physical areas where you store inventory items. Item quantities can be tracked by locator. Items can also be restricted to specific locators.

Prerequisites

• The Oracle Warehouse Management System (WMS) module must be installed to enable the Type and Status fields for the stock locator on the Stock Locators window.

   To define required information for a locator:

1. Navigate to the Stock Locators window.

2. Select New to display the Stock Locators window ready to define a new locator.

   You can also enter search criteria to find existing locators.

3. Select the Parameters tab.

4. Enter a locator and a description. The locator must be unique across an organization.

5. Indicate the locator type. Available choices are: Dock Door, Staging Lane, Storage Locator, Consolidation Locator, Packing Station, Receiving, Inspection Station.

   Note: The Enable Locator Alias feature is not supported for locators of the type Dock Door. (The Enable Locator Alias can be selected for a Subinventory on the Subinventories window.) Dock doors are used in Oracle Warehouse Management environments only. See Setting Up Dock Door to Staging Lane Relationships.

6. Indicate the material status of this locator, which controls the enabled transactions for all material in this locator. The status is not overridden by the status of any subinventory, lot, or serial within this locator. The statuses of those objects will be considered when determining transactions that are not enabled.

7. Enter the subinventory where the locator resides.

8. Enter a picking order value to define the priority for picking items from this locator relative to another locator and to sequence picking tasks. The picking order setup optimizes the picking process by sorting the locators so that in the warehouse, the nearer items are picked first.

   Note: Picking order is supported by MSCA for non-WMS implementations, and by Oracle Warehouse Management.

   A picking order of 1 means that order management functions pick items from this locator before other locators with a higher number (2, 3, and so on). If Oracle Warehouse Management is installed, this field determines the picking path through the warehouse and not the order in which material is allocated for a sales order.

   Example of Picking Order

   The following example shows how Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications (MSCA) applies the picking order for items on a sales order.

   Note: In this example, Oracle Warehouse Manager (WMS) is not enabled.

   Suppose that a sales order consists of the following items ItemA, ItemB, ItemC, and ItemD. Each item on the sales order is associated with the following default locator assignment:

   Item on Sales Order	Locator Assignment
   ItemA	Locator1
   ItemB	Locator2
   ItemC	Locator3
   ItemD	Locator4

   The following picking order sequence is defined in the Stock Locators window:

   Locator	Picking Order	Item Associated With Locator
   Locator1	3	ItemA
   Locator2	1	ItemB
   Locator3	4	ItemC
   Locator4	2	ItemD

   When the pick is organized, the mobile device shows the items in the following sequence:

   Pick Order	Locator Assignment
   1	ItemB
   2	ItemD
   3	ItemA
   4	ItemC

9. Enter a dropping order to indicate the priority for dropping items in this locator relative to another locator. Oracle warehouse management uses this value to sequence tasks.

10. Enter an alias if you selected Enable Locator Alias on the Subinventories window. If you selected Enforce Alias Uniqueness on the Subinventories window, then no two locators within the same subinventory can have the same alias. If you selected Enforce Alias Uniqueness on the Organization Parameters window, then no two locators within the organization can have the same alias.

11. Enter the inactive date for the locator. This is the date when the locator becomes inactive.

12. Save your work.

   To define optional capacity information for a locator:

1. Choose the Capacity tabbed region.

2. Enter a value for the maximum number of items you can store in this locator.

3. Enter unit of measure and maximum volume values describing the volume of inventory that can be stored in this locator.

   Note: The system does not track the capacity for infinite locators (where no maximum value is defined).

4. Enter unit of measure and maximum weight values describing the weight of inventory that can be stored in this locator.

   To define dimension information for a locator:

These fields are used to calculate available locator capacity when determining the put away suggestion in WMS enabled organizations.

1. Choose the Dimensions tabbed region.

2. Indicate the picking unit of measure used to store material in this locator. It is used to divide pick tasks by their unit of measure. See: Overview of the WMS Rules Engine. This will override the pick unit of measure at the subinventory level. This feature is available if you have Oracle Warehouse Management installed, and you are working with a WMS enabled organization. See: Defining Default Inventory Parameters.

3. Indicate the unit of measure in which the dimensions are expressed.

4. Indicate the length of the locator.

5. Indicate the height of the locator.

6. Save your work.

   To define coordinate information for a locator:

1. Choose the Coordinates tabbed region.

2. Indicate the X, Y, and Z coordinates of the locator. These coordinates are used in the event that the picking order on the locator has not been defined. Tasks are sequences to provide the operator with the minimal travel distance between picks. This feature is available if you have Oracle Warehouse Management installed, and you are working with a WMS enabled organization.

3. Save your work.

   To make a locator inactive:

1. Enter the date on which the locator becomes inactive.

   As of this date, you can no longer issue items from or receive items to this locator.