Warehouses

A warehouse is the physical inventory location with an address from where product items are shipped or picked up by customers. As an e-commerce manager in an organization with many fulfillment centers, you can define and manage physical store locations, multiple stock locations, stock figures for a product variant (SKU) by warehouse, and total product availability among warehouses.

Warehouses can be set up differently, and are often integrated with external systems. You can check in-store stock, reserve and pick up in-store, and deliver to store. By default in Optimizely Customized Commerce, you specify the warehouse where the item is being stored when you create a product variant.

Creating and editing warehouses

1. Open the Administration view and select Warehouses.
2. In the Manage Warehouses overview, click Create to add a new warehouse, or select Edit in the context menu to modify an existing one.
   
3. Enter information for the Overview tab.
   
   
   • Name. Enter the name of the warehouse.
   • Code. Enter the location code for the warehouse.
   • Sort Order. Sort order for the category entry.
   • Available. Select Yes to make the warehouse available; otherwise No.
   • Is Primary. Select Yes to make this a primary warehouse; otherwise No.
   • Is Fulfillment Center. Select Yes to make this a fulfillment center where you can place orders for outgoing shipments; otherwise No.
   • Is Pickup Location. Select Yes to make this a pickup location where you can place orders for in-store pickups; otherwise No.
   • Is Delivery Location. Select Yes to make this a delivery location that you can use for future in-store pickups; otherwise No.
4. Enter information in the Address tab.
   
5. Click Save.

Deleting a warehouse

In the Manage Warehouses overview, select Delete in the context menu for the warehouse you want to delete. Click OK to confirm.