Third Party
– Not a shipping warehouse (priority would be set to 0). Typically, it is the
storage warehouse of the publisher/manufacturer. Tracking the stock in a third
party warehouse will give the inventory manager an overview of their total
stock. When shipments form this warehouse come in the regular, shipping
warehouse, the transfer function is used to fulfill the order.
Consignment
– Process is that organization ships a quantity of the product to consignment
warehouse. Consignment warehouse sends report t organization about the number
of products that have been sold. The organization then enters orders for the
quantity of product that has been sold by the consignment vendor
(bill-to/ship-to would be the consignment warehouse), manually changing the
warehouse for the orders. This manual process means that Personify will not
reassign the warehouse, even if the order is back-ordered. This cannot be a
priority zero warehouse and should have a higher priority number than any other
shipping warehouse.
Regular –
Will have a priority of one. It will receive its initial inventory to process
all orders.
Storage –
Warehouse priority is zero and the warehouse is used for storage only. This
means that that orders are not fulfilled.
POS – The
purpose of a Point of Sales (POS) warehouse is to allow the organization to
move inventory to a bookstore at a trade show that is offsite. For example,
Personify would then act as the local cash register and allows Personify to
utilize sales tax.
This works when the
organization is responsible for charging sales tax for something sold in
another state. Normally, businesses do not have to charge sales tax for
another state, unless doing business specifically in that state.
Working with the POS warehouse
is the POS Batch. When utilizing a POS batch, this automatically sets the
order line status to be “P” (pre-shipped) and the POS warehouse inventory is
utilized. Should a customer request the item to be shipped, the user can
select a different warehouse.
If the inventory is depleted at
the point-of-sale location, the system will attempt to default to a different
warehouse from where the order can be filled. If the POS warehouse is not used
in the order line, the system revers to the regular rules for calculating tax,
which is usually based on the ship-to address of the customer.