3.2 Warehouse and Livestock Houses

Set up each of your livestock houses as an ERPNext Warehouse so you can track animals and activities by their physical location.

1. Open Warehouse and create an appropriate hierarchy under your Company.
2. Create each physical livestock house as an enabled non-group Warehouse.
3. Create separate feed, medicine, and produce stores as needed.
4. Receive livestock into the actual house and supplies into their stores.
5. Grant operators access to both the house and any source/destination stores required for their work.

Example: Warehouse tree showing livestock houses

In Daily Farm Entry, House identifies where the animals were located. A feeding row's source warehouse identifies where the feed came from. Selecting the feed store as the House misstates the animal location and can prevent population checks.

Use a submitted Material Transfer when animals change houses. Do not edit Batch Location to replace a physical stock transfer. Reports use historical movements and explicit activity locations, not just the Batch's current location.