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You manage locations from the Factory area: in the Production section of the sidebar, click Factory.

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Create a location

  1. On the Factory page, click Create Location.
  2. Enter a Name (required). Optionally fill in Description, Address, Image, Geolocation Latitude, and Geolocation Longitude.
  3. Choose a Type: Warehouse, Rack, Shelf, Tote, or Workcenter.
  4. Optionally pick a Supervisor and a Parent Location.
  5. Set the inventory switches: Inventory Available (whether stock here counts as available), Can Hold Inventory (whether inventory can go here), Pickable (whether kitting can pull from here), and Exclude from Inventory Merge (whether stock here auto-merges). For what each one does, see the locations overview.
  6. Click Create Location.
ION opens the new location’s detail page.

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Organize locations into a hierarchy

Set a location’s place in the tree with the Parent Location field, either when you create it or later from its detail page. To add a child under an existing location, open that location and use the Create Location button in its Sub Locations card. The new location’s parent is filled in for you.
Names that sort cleanly hold up as the factory grows. Use sortable names such as A1-01 through A1-99, so a bin with no pick order still lands somewhere sensible on a pick path. Match the hierarchy to the building (warehouse, zone, rack, shelf, bin), and reserve recurring special names once, such as In-transit, Receiving dock, Quarantine, and Scrap.

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Set the pick order

The pick order is the sequence a picker walks your bins in. Every surface that shows a walk follows it: the stops on a pick run, the pick list on the Kitting page, and a kit’s lines on the phone. Ordering is within a level: which area first, then which aisle inside it. A location with no order falls to the bottom of its level and is visited in name order.
  1. On the Factory page, click Edit pick order.
  2. On the Pick order page, drag the locations into the order a picker walks them.
  3. Click a location to open it and order what is inside. Each level loads when you open it, so a deep tree stays workable.
Pick order page with Stockroom expanded to Aisle 1, Aisle 2 and Aisle 3. Bins A1-01 to A1-04 show positions 1.1.1 to 1.1.4 and pick orders 10 to 40, A1 Tote Cart and the unordered bin A1-05 show a dash, and Aisle 3 and Stockroom each show why their level can't be ordered

A site opened two levels deep. The left number is the row's position in the tree; the right number is its stored pick order. The tote carts are containers, so they show a dash and have no drag handle.

Each row shows two numbers. The one on the left, such as 1.2.3, is the row’s position in the tree. ION reads it from the tree, so you can’t type it. The one on the right is the stored pick order, the same value the Pick order column shows on the Factory table. Only Pickable locations are stops, so only they have a drag handle and a pick order. Any other location shows a dash on the right. It’s a container: you can open it and order what’s inside, but you can’t drag it against its siblings. A container with no pick order is walked in name order among its siblings, and numbers in names sort as numbers, so Aisle 2 comes before Aisle 10. Archived locations don’t appear on the page at all. When you drop a row, ION renumbers the whole walk to match, not just the level you changed. That keeps each area’s contents together, so moving an area moves everything inside it. A level that can’t be ordered says why:
  • Nothing here is a stop on a run, so this level has no order. Open one to order what is inside it.
  • Only one location here is a stop on a run, so there is nothing to order it against.
  • On a level with more locations than the page loads at once, it says so and points you at the Pick order column instead.
The last rows of a long top level on the Pick order page, followed by the message: Showing the first 500 top-level locations, so this level cannot be ordered here. Use the Pick order column on the Factory table.

A top level with more locations than the page loads says so, and points you at the Pick order column.

To set one location’s number directly, type it into the Pick order column on the Factory table. Only pickable, unarchived locations have an editable cell. The column is sortable, so you can read the floor back in walk order, and you can filter the table on Pick order too. It’s also how you reach a level the page won’t order. In a large factory that can include the top level, because the page loads at most 500 locations per level.
If the Factory table doesn’t show a Pick order column, it’s turned off in your saved column layout. Open Manage Columns and switch on Pick order. The layout is saved per browser.
Factory table searched for A1- bins and sorted ascending by the Pick order column, showing pick orders 10 to 40 in editable cells and the unordered bin A1-05 last

The Factory table sorted by Pick order. Each pickable bin has an editable cell, and the sort reads the floor back in walk order.

Pick order runs across the whole site rather than per aisle. Numbering each aisle 10, 20, 30 on its own produces an order that reads as if the aisles interleave, because every aisle repeats the same numbers.
A kit line filled from more than one bin walks at the earliest of them, which is the first point a picker can act on it.

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Edit a location

Open a location from the Factory page to reach its detail page. Fields in the Location Information card are editable in place and save automatically as you change them. Can Hold Inventory and Pickable are advisory until your organization turns on the matching enforcement setting. Depending on your settings, ION can reject inventory bound for a location that isn’t marked Can Hold Inventory, and keep inventory at a location that isn’t marked Pickable out of kitting. For more information, see Configure location constraints.
When your organization enforces can-hold-inventory, you can’t turn off Can Hold Inventory on a location that still holds inventory. Move the inventory out first.
If your org has defined location custom attributes, their values are editable at the bottom of the Location Information card. To define which custom attributes exist, see Custom attributes. To print barcode labels for one or more locations, select them on the Factory page and click Print Barcodes. For label setup, see Print a label.

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Archive or delete a location

On a location’s detail page, open the Location actions menu (the … menu):
  • Archive Location hides the location from active use without removing its history. Use Unarchive Location to restore it.
  • Delete Location removes the location permanently. Deletion requires the DeleteLocation permission and can’t be undone. You can’t delete a location that’s set as your organization’s default bill-to or ship-to in the purchase order settings.