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How to choose the right inventory flow to handle delivery orders?
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Depending on factors such as the type of items you sell, the size of
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your warehouse, the number of orders you register everyday... the way you
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handle deliveries to your customers can vary a lot.
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Odoo allows you to handle shipping from your warehouse in 3 different
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ways:
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- **One step (shipping)**: Ship directly from stock
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- **Two steps (pick + ship)**: Bring goods to output location before
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shipping
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- **Three steps (pick + pack + ship)**: Make packages into a dedicated
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location, then bring them to the output location for shipping
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For companies having a rather small warehouse and that do not require
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high stock of items or don't sell perishable items, a one step shipping
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is the simplest solution, as it does not require a lot of configuration
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and allows to handle orders very quickly.
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Using inventory methods such as FIFO, LIFO and FEFO require to have at
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least two steps to handle a shipment. The picking method will be
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determined by the removal strategy, and the items removed will then be
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shipped to the customer. This method is also interesting if you hold
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larger stocks and especially when the items you stock are big in size.
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The three steps system becomes useful in more specific situations, the
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main one being for handling very large stocks. The items are transferred
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to a packing area, where they will be assembled by area of destination,
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and then set to outbound trucks for final delivery to the customers.
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Configuration
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One step flow
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Please read documentation on :doc:`one_step`
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Two steps flow
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Please read documentation on :doc:`two_steps`
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Three steps flow
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Please read documentation on :doc:`three_steps` |