The Positions Map: how it works
Check your warehouse's occupancy on an interactive map, with zoom levels, colour layers and a direct search to any position or product.
The Positions Map turns your warehouse into an interactive picture: start with the whole warehouse and zoom in, zone by zone and corridor by corridor, all the way down to a single position. Colour layers point out blocked stock, batches close to expiry and the ABC classification of what's stored, and a search box takes you straight to any position or product. It's open to every user — no special permission is needed to use it.
How to access it
Open the Positions Map from the side menu. The screen opens on the whole warehouse: a list of zones, ranked by how full each one is.
The whole-warehouse view
Each row in the zone list shows the zone's name and how full it is, plus a short occupancy trend once there's a few days of history to show. You can sort the list by occupancy, name or number of positions — the numeric orders tie-break on the name, so the bottom of a long list doesn't reshuffle between visits for no reason.
Three chips above the list — Blocked, Expiring and a third for fully free positions — turn on the matching layer when pressed: zones holding that condition get marked with their own count, and the rest fade back, so you can see where a problem actually is before opening anything. If you already know which zone you're after, the Zone filter in the filter bar opens it directly, which is faster than scrolling a long ranked list.
Zooming into a zone
Selecting a zone opens its detail map, with several zoom stops between the whole zone and a single position. The stops are named for what they show rather than for how many segments a location code has: whichever stop sits between the rack and the position is a Level (Level 1, Level 2, and so on when there's more than one), and the deepest stop — a single square, one position — is always called Location, whatever your warehouse's code format looks like. A zone whose codes have no further structure below the rack opens straight on its Location view.
Layers and legend
The layers button switches on colour overlays over the detail map:
- Blocked — positions holding blocked stock;
- Expiring — positions holding batches close to their expiry date;
- ABC — the ABC classification of the products stored in each position.
The legend beside the map explains what the current colours mean, for whichever layer is switched on, and hovering a position lists its statuses one per line, so a position that's both blocked and close to expiry stays easy to read. The Status filter in the filter bar shows the same information as a single read-out.
Finding a position or a product
Use the Go to position box to search directly, from the whole-warehouse view or from inside a zone. Type a full location code or just part of it — a rack, a corridor — and the map opens the right zone with that position selected. If nothing matches, the box tells you rather than staying silent.
The same box also searches by product: start typing an article's code or description and the map shows every position holding stock of it. If you're standing in front of a pallet, scanning its label works too — a pallet barcode carries both the article and the batch, so scanning it takes you straight to "where is this batch", not just "where is this article." And typing fast no longer confuses the search: an older, slower reply can't arrive after a newer one and overwrite what you're actually looking at.
Checking a split batch
Filter the map by a specific batch and, if that batch sits in more than one position within the open zone, the map lets you know instead of leaving you to spot it by scanning the highlighted squares one by one. The check only shows up when the zone actually holds the batch you filtered for, so it never appears next to a "no matches" result.
Exporting the map
The detail view has an export button next to the map it draws from, so the PNG you get always matches what's on screen — the same rows, columns and colours you were just looking at.