On the Floor plan designer page you can draw the floor plan of your warehouse and tell where each location code is. The floor plan consists of elements: a rack is a shelf system divided into bays (columns) and levels, while the other elements (zone, wall, door, pillar, aisle, label) help with orientation. You assign the location codes to the bays of the racks, so the Stock map can show where how much stock is. You enter the dimensions in centimeters, so the floor plan is true to scale.
Floor plans have no states: a saved floor plan immediately appears on the Stock map. Unsaved changes are marked by the yellow dot next to the Save button.
Click Main menu / Stock management / Storage locations and shelves / Floor plan designer (the menu is in the Additional data section) to open the designer. On the left select the Site, then click the New floor plan button. Enter the Name (required), the Width and Height of the floor plan in centimeters and the Grid size (the step of snapping, default 50 cm). If a site has several floor plans, switch between them by clicking in the list on the left. The screenshots were taken from the Hungarian interface.
In the Elements panel on the left choose the type of the element, then drag the mouse over the floor plan; if you just click, the element is placed in its default size. When to use which:
Click an element to select it (select several with Shift or Ctrl, or with a frame dragged from an empty area). You can move a selected element by dragging (a pink guide line along the grid and neighboring elements shows the alignment; hold Alt to turn it off), resize it with the small squares and rotate it with the circle above (it sticks at 90-degree positions; hold Shift to rotate in 15-degree steps). In the panel on the right you can also enter the Name, X, Y, Width, Height, Rotation and Color exactly.
Select a rack. In the Location positions section on the right enter the number of Bays (columns) and Levels, and the direction of the Bay numbering (1 → N or N → 1). A table appears below: the columns are the bays, the rows are the levels (the top level is at the top). You can fill it in three ways:
The cell shows the name of the location code; with the × sign you can detach the location code (it is not deleted, it returns to the unplaced list). With the Capacity for all locations field you can set the capacity of all location codes of the rack at once, and the Generate locations link takes you to the Location generator to create the missing location codes.
Click the Save button (or press Ctrl+S). The changes are saved in one step: either everything succeeds or nothing. Until saving you can step through the history with the Undo and Redo buttons. If you close the page without saving, the system warns you and offers to restore the draft the next time you open it. If a colleague modified the same floor plan in the meantime, saving does not overwrite their work but reports the conflict and asks you to reload.
With the Floor plan settings button you can change the name, the dimensions and the grid, and you can also upload a Background image (PNG, JPG or GIF), for example a scanned architectural plan. Set the Background opacity slider and draw over it. If the size of the image does not fit, use the Calibrate scale button: click two points of the image whose real distance you know, enter it in meters, and the image is set to the right size. Uploading the background is saved immediately, so first save the other changes of the floor plan.
The Route order button calculates a snake-shaped walking order for the location codes from the floor plan and writes it into their order (distance) field. Enter the Band height (the band of rack rows next to each other), the side of the Start (top or bottom), the First number and the Step, check the result with the Preview button, then save it with Apply. Note: this also changes the order of the picking list. The Import old map button is visible only if the site had a placement in the old (visual map) tool: it imports them as zones into a new floor plan, the original data is not modified.
To build a whole rack row quickly, draw one rack, enter the number of bays and levels, then use the Duplicate in a row function (for example 8 pieces, with a 150 cm gap downwards). After that create the location codes for each rack with the Location generator and let the system assign them to the bays of the rack automatically.
The fields of the floor plan settings:
| Field / Element | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Name | The name of the floor plan (at most 150 characters), for example Ground floor. | |
| Width, Height | The size of the floor plan in centimeters (default 4000 × 3000 cm, that is 40 × 30 m). | |
| Grid size | The step of snapping to the grid in centimeters (5–1000, default 50). | |
| Background image, Background opacity | The image under the floor plan; the opacity can be set between 10 and 100%. |
The properties of a selected element in the right panel:
| Field / Column | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Name | The label of the element on the floor plan (not shown for walls, doors and pillars). | |
| X, Y | The position of the top left corner of the element from the top left corner of the floor plan, in centimeters. | |
| Width, Height | The size of the element in centimeters (at least 10 cm). | |
| Rotation | The rotation of the element in degrees (0–359). | |
| Color | A custom color; the Default color button restores the default one. | |
| Bays, Levels | For racks and zones only: the number of columns and rows of the location positions (at most 200 bays and 50 levels). If you reduce them, the location codes of the disappearing positions are detached from the floor plan. | |
| Bay numbering | 1 → N: the bays are numbered from the left side; N → 1: from the right side. It also applies to a rotated rack. | |
| Capacity for all locations | Sets the capacity of all location codes of the rack at once, with the type Quantity (pcs) or Number of different items. This action is saved immediately and is available only for a saved rack. |
The location codes are kept together with their stock, they are only detached from the floor plan and return to the Unplaced locations list. The system asks for confirmation before deleting and tells how many location codes are affected. Until saving, the deletion can be undone.
Someone else (or you in another browser tab) saved the floor plan while you were editing it. The system does not overwrite their changes: after reloading you see the latest state and have to make your own changes again. It is worth agreeing with your colleagues not to edit the same floor plan at the same time.
A location code can be assigned only to a rack of the site of the floor plan, and a cell can hold only one location code at a time. If the location code belongs to another site or the position is already taken, saving gives an error message. Check the Site field on the sheet of the location code.
No, Undo works only for the changes made since the last save. After saving, a mistake has to be corrected by hand. The Route order (after confirmation) and the Capacity for all locations action are saved immediately, so Undo does not affect them.
The Storage locations and shelves module appears in the menu only if it is assigned to your user. Ask the administrator to check the module assignment.
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