Plan a warehouse structure graphically

Use the warehouse layout editor to build a physical warehouse directly on the canvas. Storage areas, constraints, racks, storage bins, and standard load carriers are stored as the same tenant-bound records shown in the warehouse lists.

Use the domain terms consistently

  • A warehouse is the operational and spatial context of the editor.
  • A storage area is a structural part such as a building, storey, hall, room, outdoor area, aisle, rack, or level.
  • An area type describes its business meaning. Your organization can add tenant-specific types.
  • A structural kind controls the stable hierarchy. The server derives it from the selected area type.
  • A storage bin is a concrete, addressable inventory location.
  • A constraint is blocked or restricted space, not a storage area.

Prerequisites

  • Open a physical warehouse and select Warehouse structure > Warehouse layout.
  • Publish a storage-bin class revision with geometry before creating racks.
  • You need warehouse-layout read and plan permissions, plus activation permission when releasing a layout.

Build the warehouse

  1. Select Draw storage area and drag the required area. Dimensions use millimetres and snap to the grid. An area of 4,000 × 4,000 mm is 4 × 4 m.
  2. Draw constraints for columns, fire lanes, no-storage zones, or safety clearance inside a storage area.
  3. Select Place rack, a published storage-bin class, and the bay and level counts. Workspace creates the rack, levels, and storage bins atomically.
  4. Drag standard objects into free storage space. The catalog includes EPAL pallets and box pallets, CP1–CP9, VDA R-KLT, ISO footprints, and ISO containers.
  5. Select a rack and open Front view to inspect levels and storage bins. Use Top view for the complete structure.

Edit elements

Drag storage areas, racks, constraints, and free objects to move them. Edit position, rotation, and the dimensions of resizable areas in the properties panel. Standard objects such as EPAL pallets retain their standard dimensions.

Right-click an element to open the standard context menu. You can edit its properties, focus its size fields, or remove an empty planning element. Active areas, occupied bins, and objects linked to handling units remain protected.

If another user saves the element first, Workspace reloads the current revision instead of overwriting it.

Validate and activate

Select Validate. Workspace checks the hierarchy, parent bounds, geometry, collisions, and constraints on the server. Then select Activate to move areas, storage bins, and constraints from planning into operations together.

Returning to planning is blocked while inventory, active handling units, open movements, replenishment tasks, or count work refer to affected storage bins.

Addressing and previous codes

Under Addressing, define how storage-bin codes are composed from the warehouse, hierarchy, and a sequence. Review the preview before applying new codes. When a bin is renumbered, Workspace keeps its previous code. Scanners continue to accept that code and resolve it to the current storage bin.

The editor does not post inventory or move handling units. Operational movements remain in Inventory workflows.