Standard Operating Procedures
Defining a Bin Location
PURPOSE:
Defining a Bin Location creates a new position in a designated Warehouse to locate inventory or goods.
The user defines the Bin Location with a unique identifier according to standard bin naming convention currently in practice.
Because Bin Locations are specific to the layout of the "slots" in the designated Warehouse, movement of a bin within the Warehouse would change the name according to the standard naming convention. The naming convention of the Bin Location is a non-editable field, and as such, will require a Bin Location to be inactivated, and a new Bin Location defined.
Warehouse Bin Definition - Role Permissions
| Inventory Read Only | Will be able to search and view existing Bin Locations |
| Inventory Level 1 | Will be able to search and view existing Bin Locations |
| Inventory Level 2 | Will be able to search, view, and update existing Bin Locations. This role will also be able to create Bin Locations. |
| Inventory Manager | Will be able to search, view, and update existing Bin Locations. This role will also be able to create Bin Locations. |
| 1. Navigate to the Inventory module on the main menu. |  |
| 2. Navigate to the Inventory screen and click the link to Warehouse Bin Definition. |  |
| 3. Click New to call up a blank form to create the new inventory part. |  |
| 4. Input the designated number for the Bin Location in the box located in the yellow bar at the top of the screen.
**The Bin Location number is designated by the editor of the record. The system does auto-populate this number.** |
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| 5. Copy the same designated number for the Bin Location into the description box below the box in the yellow row. |  |
| 6. Click on the magnifying glass in the empty Warehouse field on the right side of the screen.
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| 7. Select the Warehouse that applies by clicking on the value in the Warehouse column. |  |
| 8. Click on the green Save button in the upper left hand corner of the screen to save the Bin Definition. |  |
**If a designated Inventory Part has already been identified for this location, go to the SOP for Assigning an Inventory Item to a Bin Location after completing the above steps and skip to Step 6**
Return to Inventory Module SOP