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What is the difference between warehouses and locations?
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In Odoo, a **Warehouse** is the actual building/place in which your items
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are stocked. You can setup multiple warehouses and create moves between
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warehouses.
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A **Location**, is a specific space within your warehouse. It can be
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considered as a sublocation of your warehouse, as a shelf, a floor, an
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aisle, etc. Therefore, a location is part of one warehouse only and it
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is not possible to link one location to multiple warehouses. You can
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configure as much locations as you need under one warehouse.
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There are 3 types of locations:
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- The **Physical Locations** are internal locations that are part of the
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warehouses for which you are the owner. They can be the loading and
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unloading area of your warehouse, a shelf or a department, etc.
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- The **Partner Locations** are spaces within a customer and/or vendor's
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warehouse. They work the same way as Physical Locations with the only
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difference being that you are not the owner of the warehouse.
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- The **Virtual Locations** are places that do not exist, but in which
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products can be placed when they are not physically in an inventory yet
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(or anymore). They come in handy when you want to place lost products
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out of your stock (in the **Inventory loss**), or when you want to take into
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account products that are on their way to your warehouse (**Procurements**).
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In Odoo, locations are structured hierarchically. You can structure your
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locations as a tree, dependent on a parent-child relationship. This
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gives you more detailed levels of analysis of your stock operations and
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the organization of your warehouses.
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.. seealso::
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* :doc:`warehouse_creation`
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* :doc:`location_creation`
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