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Setting Up Warehouse Locations in iCat

Learn how to organize your facility by creating hierarchical warehouse locations in iCat so you can easily track vaults, pallets, crates, rolling racks, and large content items.

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Written by Xavier
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Why define warehouse locations?

Warehouse locations in iCat let you always know exactly where contents are stored — whether they’re sitting in a vault, racked on a shelf, staged for cleaning, or waiting to be packed back to the insured.

Clear location structure ensures your team can quickly:

  • Locate contents for cleaning

  • Identify contents ready for pack-back

  • Find urgent or rush-requested items immediately

  • Move items efficiently through production, vault storage, and delivery prep

iCat includes a few default operational locations:

  • Dispose – for items that will not return to the insured

  • LOS (Left-On-Site) – for large items left at the property

  • Subcontractor – for items sent out for external cleaning or specialty work

You can create additional warehouse locations like Rows for Vaults, or Shelves for Pallet Racking, or virtual staging locations to help organize workflow.

You can also create movable locations such as pallets, rolling racks, or carts.

How you choose to organize your locations is up to you.

Follow the steps below to begin setting up your warehouse, starting with the location at the top of the hierarchy tree - Your Main Warehouse -  and then followed by the other fixed warehouse locations such as Staging Area, Receiving Bay, Disposal Room, or whatever you want to set up.  

When naming your locations, think about names and terms familiar to your team - after all, they will use the production view to complete transfers or find contents.

  1. Setup a Main Warehouse.  Then, set up other warehouse locations underneath your main facility warehouse where you will be storing vaults, pallets, crates, rolling racks, and individual large content items.  


2. Set Up a Child Warehouse Location, which will be nested under the Main Warehouse Location.

Watch this video to learn how to create a SIMPLE Child Warehouse location. 

Soon, after setting up other locations, you can transfer and sort contents in iCat so that you will know where they are when it comes time to deliver, clean, or dispose of them.

Watch this video to learn how to create COMPLEX Child Warehouse locations, such as a Row with two levels and eight spots in each level where you will be storing Crates or Vaults.


​Once you have created your warehouse locations, the next step will be creating some moveable container locations such as vaults, crates, pallets, and rolling carts.  

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