Physical Hierarchy

Sections

Overview
Warehouses
Locations and Materials
Load and Shipping Containers

Overview

The relationships between physical parts of your Warehouse follow a logical hierarchy in FootPrint, consisting of inventory (Materials) assigned to License Plates, those License Plates within Locations, Locations inside of Zones, and those Zones underneath the Warehouse itself. Your Warehouse in FootPrint can be set up in any fashion you'd like, but ideally this layout will mirror the physical reality of your Warehouse.

Warehouses

As you can see in Zone 2 above, Zones can be created underneath other Zones, allowing a great deal of customizability and organization to your Warehouse.

As indicated by the name Freezer Zone, Storage Categories can be set at the Zone level to be inherited by the Locations it contains.

Dock Doors behave similarly to Zones, and must contain Locations to be able to store Materials within them.

Yard Locations are still categorized as being inside of your Warehouse. They can be placed inside a Zone (as above) for further organization.

Locations and Materials

Within each Location you can store License Plates. Within those License Plates, each inventory unit of Material you have in your Warehouse will be kept.

Composite License Plates

License Plates can be grouped together by Composite License Plates. Composite License Plates can only occupy one Location, so when one of its associated License Plates is moved from the Location, it will be disassociated with the Composite License Plate.

Material Packaging

Materials themselves can be held within Packaging Types with Sub-Packaging levels, so that one Package may contain several smaller Packages of the Material inside.

Load and Shipping Containers

Load Containers

Load Containers have assigned Orders to them, and each Material, License Plate, and Shipping Container within an Order will be associated with that Load Container.

Shipping Containers

Shipping Containers are automatically created for Shipping License Plates when Picking. A Shipping Container can either hold one License Plate, or any number of Shipping Containers within itself.

Tip

Load Containers are not required for an Order.

Last Updated:

11/04/2025