We have 4 stocking locations. In addition to these we have a program with our dealers where we send them inventory at no charge for installs. The inventory is technically still owned by us until an install has been completed at which time we invoice it out. To keep track of the inventory in the meantime, I set up Inventory Locations for each of the dealers that we're sending stock to and then stock transfer the product from our location to theirs and ship it to them. Instead of having 4 stocking locations we now have over 60 and growing. Is there an easier way to keep track of our inventory at all of these dealers locations? Is it possible to set up sub-locations so that 1 location could have 60 or more sub-locations? Is there a way to differentiate between our 4 stocking locations and our dealers that are on this special program? Any ideas??

There is not much you can do other than to craft the location codes to allow you to group the real locations separately from the sub-dealer locations.

Hi Douglas,

Can you clarify what you mean by "craft the location codes"?

All sub dealer locations begin "x" or all "real" locations begin "y".

Okay.. that's what I thought. I can do something like that with toolkit.

I'd suggest sub-dealer start with z and real locations just have a normal location code.

good idea!

This may be a little more work, but you could have just one location and invoice the shipments through Order Entry from your ship from location and have all the invoice start with a "S" and then the regular invoice number that the system would produce.. When they use the goods, you credit back the invoice and re-issue it from the regular location using the old invoice number less the "S". The ship from location would always be negative and you could use a report writer to see is at each client's site.
The down side is having the extra invoices and credit notes on the client's file or set up a separate client to handle the shipment invoice and credit note.