A zone is a logical grouping of locators. A zone may represent a specific work area(s) such as a Packing station(s) or it may just indicate an area where material movement occurs. The locators for a zone may span one or more subinventories You can specify a zone for an operation when you define the operation plan. This association determines the candidate set of locators where the particular operation is performed.
You can use zones to define the path that material takes in the course of completing an activity. Defining zones is not mandatory especially if the warehouse is small and the operations are not complex where subinventories and / or locators could suffice.
You can also use zones for workload balancing and optimization. Users can optionally sign-on to zones and consequently can only perform tasks that originate within the zone.

1. Navigate to the Zone Summary window.
2. Enter the name of the zone in the Name field.
3. Optionally, enter a description of the zone in the Description field.
4. Optionally, select a Disable Date from the list of values. If you enter a date in this field, the zone is disabled on this date.
5. Choose the Enabled Flag to enable the zone.
6. Save your work.
7. Choose View/Modify to open the View Modify Locators window