Build warehouse maps and assign locations

1Choose the warehouse and view

Open Inventory → Warehouse Map. The selector beside Warehouse identifies the current map and its shop location. Shop floor is for finding and inspecting stock. Edit map opens the drawing tools. Use Back to shop floor to return.

2Create another warehouse

Open the selector and choose New warehouse. Enter a Warehouse name. Choose an existing Shop location, or Not tied to a location when appropriate, then Save warehouse. A single-location shop can keep multiple warehouses. Creating a map does not create a new Company location.

3Review warehouse settings

Open the selector and choose Warehouse settings. You can rename the warehouse and change its location. Racks inherit the warehouse location, and slabs placed on those racks use that location too. Stock already assigned elsewhere must be moved before a conflicting warehouse location change. Open inventory operations can also prevent the change.

4Draw the building outline

Choose Edit map, then Draw shape (D) and Building. Click successive corners. Corners snap square and to the half-foot grid, with alignment hints near existing geometry. Click the first point or press Enter to close a valid outline. Escape cancels an unfinished shape. This map uses feet; it is separate from a quote's countertop drawing.

5Place rectangles and storage areas

Choose Rectangle (R), select a type and drag between opposite corners. Building describes the outside boundary; Office and Door describe the floor plan. Bay, Rack, Zone and Dumpster can hold stock and appear in the rack list. Name each storage area so staff can match it to its physical location. Drawing an area does not move any stock by itself.

6Move, resize and rename

Use Select (V), click a shape and drag inside it to move it. Drag a corner to resize a rectangular box or reshape an outline. Double-click a named storage area or other non-building shape to rename it. Press Enter to accept the name. Renaming an occupied bay also updates the location text of its attached slabs.

7Copy, undo and remove a shape

Select a shape and choose Duplicate selected shape, or press Ctrl+D. Ctrl+C followed by Ctrl+V is another way to copy and paste. Each copy is a separate shape; position and rename it before using it. Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Redo restore geometry changes. After undoing a creation, reselect a restored shape before editing it.

Select an unwanted shape and press Delete or Backspace. If it holds slabs, read the confirmation before continuing. The slabs keep their location text but lose the deleted bay link, so they need placement review. Start by practicing on an empty shape.

8Navigate and check saving

Pan moves your view without moving shapes. Zoom in, Zoom out and Fit to view change the view scale. These controls do not change the building's dimensions. Watch for Saved ✓ after edits, then reopen the map to verify the result. If another session changed it, SlabOS reloads that version; review it before making further edits.

9Set a piece capacity

Select a storage area in Edit map and enter its maximum number of slabs in the capacity box. Press Enter or leave the field to save. An empty box means no count limit. At or above the limit, the panel shows a capacity warning. This is a piece count, not a weight measurement or a guarantee that a physical rack is safe to load.

10Place existing stock on a rack

With the rack selected in Edit map, click Add slabs. Search by serial, material or color. Show placed includes pieces already assigned to a bay; check their current location before selecting them. Select the intended pieces and click Place to assign them to this rack. The rack name becomes their location text, and they inherit a warehouse location when one is set.

Review the saved list. Remove from bay clears the selected piece's bay placement and location text without deleting the stock record. It keeps the piece's shop location. Assigning a rack is different from allocating stock to a job.

11Search and filter the shop floor

Choose Back to shop floor. Search by serial, color, lot or job, and wait for the matching count to refresh. All stock, Available, Reserved and Remnants filter the matching pieces; a Warehouse branch choice narrows the displayed rack list. An orange glow marks matching racks. Rack piece counts describe the rack's contents; the matches figure describes the current search.

Hide rack list gives the map more room; Show rack list restores it. Refresh inventory updates the displayed stock and rack information. Select a rack in the list or tap it on the map to open its details.

12Read rack details and history

Check the full location, warehouse and rack context at the top of Rack details. Contents links to the stock records. Larger result sets use Previous and Next. Last count identifies the last inventory check and its expected, confirmed and not-seen totals. A new rack says it has not been counted yet. Expand Recent rack movements to review recorded movement history.

13Configure sides, slots and load information

Choose Rack settings. Piece capacity is the same count limit used by the map editor and printed bay list. Set Manufacturer-rated load (kg) only from the rack's actual specification. Add rack side, give it a name, then Add slot and enter its name and optional Slot capacity. Remove side and Remove slot delete those entries from the draft; occupied positions must be cleared before their removal can save.

Branch is inherited and locked when the warehouse has a location. Otherwise, choose a permitted branch where needed. Save rack settings and reopen to check your entries. Defining sides and slots does not assign existing pieces to them automatically.

14Start a count or move from the rack

Take inventory opens the scanning workflow with this rack selected. Move pieces here opens a move with this rack as the destination. Check the selected rack before starting. Review and confirm the intended pieces in the scan session; simply opening the link does not count or move stock. The Print labels and scan with a phone guide covers the full scan workflow.

15Preview one rack label

Choose Print label for rack. Review the Label template, Printer profile and Print connection, then inspect the preview. A rack label identifies a storage destination; it is different from a slab label. Prepare labels is the next step for browser or Zebra printing; a configured shop connection can offer Queue labels. Do not confirm successful printing until the physical output has been checked. Use the Zebra printer guide for device setup.

16Choose a label batch

Select the checkboxes beside the intended racks. Select unprinted picks racks with no label; Select stale labels picks labels that need updating. Clear removes the selection. Print rack labels opens the selected batch, up to 100 labels. A queued or submitted job still needs its result checked; label status is not proof that the physical label was applied to the correct rack.

17Use a floor-plan image

From Shop floor, choose Floor plan image. Upload a PNG or JPEG up to 1 MB. Set X, Y, Width and Height in feet, adjust Opacity, then Save background. Reopen the settings to verify the saved values. The image is a reference underneath the drawn map; it does not automatically create racks or detect building dimensions. Remove background clears the image while preserving the drawn shapes.

18Print the map and bay list

Choose Print map. A separate print view contains the current warehouse, location, map and bay list with slab counts and capacities. It opens the browser's print dialog once the map and counts load. Check paper orientation, scale and the print preview before printing or saving as PDF. Printing this document is separate from printing rack labels.

19Use the map on a phone

Select the warehouse, use Search and the stock filter, then tap a rack. Rack details opens as a panel over the lower part of the map. Scroll that panel for its contents and actions, and use Close rack details to return to the map. The map supports touch panning and two-finger pinch zoom. Choose the full scanning guide before starting a camera-based count or move.

20Delete an unused warehouse carefully

When more than one layout exists, its selector includes Delete this layout. Review the confirmation and make sure the selected warehouse is the intended one. Deleting a layout removes its map and unhooks its bay placements; stock keeps its location text. Review and re-place affected pieces afterward. A warehouse rename or background removal is a different action.