Installing the Logistics App

The Logistics App is the interface your warehouse team, your dispatchers, and your receiving clerks live in. It runs at /garments/logistics and is built for tablets and phones — the devices people actually carry around a warehouse.

Get it installed on every warehouse device before anything else; most of the day-to-day movement of materials happens through this app, not the desk.

What it is

The Logistics App is a touch-friendly frontend that talks to the same database as the Frappe Desk. Material requests created from the app, stock transfers recorded from the app, purchase receipts posted from the app — all of them land instantly in the Desk for everyone else.

It's installable on a device like a native app. No app store, no install package, no update cycle.

Installing on a device

Visit https://your-site.com/garments/logistics on the device's browser.

On iOS Safari: tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.

On Android Chrome: open the ⋮ menu, then Install app (or Add to Home Screen).

Once installed, the app launches full-screen with its own icon. Pin it to the dock or home screen so the warehouse team can reach it instantly.

Image: The Logistics App on a warehouse tablet alongside other apps.

Logging in

Same Frappe user accounts as the desk. Log in once, the session persists, every movement is attributed to the user that posted it.

What's inside

The app organizes around the actual jobs the warehouse team does:

• Prep — Material Preparation. The dashboard of Material Requests waiting to be transferred, with the MR transfer flow. Where most warehouse work starts.
• Stock — Live stock view. Search by item, see balance across warehouses, drill into per-warehouse breakdown.
• Purchase — Purchase Receipt list and creation. The "what just came in" view, used at the receiving dock.
• Ledger — Operation Ledger Entry list, create, detail. Recording dispatches, transfers, handoffs.
• Logistics — The external-unit dashboard: pending dispatches to subcontractors, pending recoveries.
• Settings — User, language, theme.

What the warehouse team uses each view for

A reasonable starting model:

• Receiving clerk lives in Purchase. Trucks arrive, they record the PR, stock lands in the Raw Material warehouse.
• Material preparation staff live in Prep. They see MRs to prepare, gather the materials, post the transfer.
• Dispatcher for external units lives in Logistics and Ledger. They see pending dispatches and post the OLE that records the movement.
• Floor supervisor dips into Stock when they need to check whether something is in WIP before promising production it'll happen.

What to do next

Once the app is installed and logins work, read The material flow for the conceptual model that ties every doctype in this section together.