Question,Practical answer,Law/source verification,State-specific follow-up,Owner
Does every warehouse require WDRA registration?,No. WDRA requirements arise for relevant regulated warehousing/negotiable receipts services; normal private storage arrangements have their own approval matrix.,See guide official references,,
Does an FSSAI certificate apply to food storage only?,"Food handling/storage can be a FoSCoS Kind of Business; review exact activity, location and category-specific criteria.",See guide official references,,
Can a warehouse issue a negotiable receipt without WDRA?,Do not assume it can issue regulated e-NWR or invoke WDRA legal effects without appropriate framework/registration.,See guide official references,,
Who owns the goods in a 3PL facility?,Contract and title documents decide; physical custody by the warehouse normally does not by itself mean the stock is the warehouse’s asset.,See guide official references,,
Must goods from multiple clients be segregated?,"Apply contract, traceability, regulatory and product-safety requirements; risk-based segregation avoids commingling and false stock attribution.",See guide official references,,
What should a goods receipt note contain?,"Client, SKU/batch/serial, quantity, condition, seal, time, carrier, discrepancy and bin location with sign-off.",See guide official references,,
How should cold-storage setpoints be determined?,Use product-specific validated temperature ranges and contract/QC SOP; a universal 2-8°C rule is wrong for many food or industrial products.,See guide official references,,
Do I need a separate GST registration for inventory held in another State?,"Facts about ownership, place of business and supply location matter. Request a transaction-specific GST analysis, not a blanket assumption.",See guide official references,,
Can the warehouse sell abandoned inventory to pay charges?,"Only via rights and processes lawfully permitted under contract and applicable lien/sale laws, with notice and traceable accounting.",See guide official references,,
Who is liable for stock damage?,"SLA, bailment/contract law, insured perils, declared value and fault control; agree clear evidence and claim timelines in writing.",See guide official references,,
Which stock-count method works best?,"Use risk-weighted cycle counts with independent reconciliation, then periodic wall-to-wall counts where appropriate; trace all adjustments to approved root causes.",See guide official references,,
How should a fulfilment 3PL price services?,"Model per pallet/bin storage, inbound/outbound handling, pick/pack, returns, peak capacity, value-added work and spoilage liabilities instead of one blanket per-order price.",See guide official references,,