Cannot delete a warehouse - "warehouse is used by existing record in table Stock dimensions...."

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Hello,

I am trying to delete a warehouse that we have never posted any transactions against. There were transactions like sales orders raised with this warehouse, but these transactions were either deleted or posted against a different warehouse in the end.

However, I am unable to delete this warehouse. See prompt below.

Is there any way I can get around this without having to do a stock dimensions cleanup, which seems a bit risky for the purpose of just deleting a warehouse that was never posted against...?

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Anton Venter 20,674 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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There is no way around this in my opinion except removing the specific record in the Stock dimensions (InventDim) table. The record containing the warehouse in question was created in the InventDim table when the sales order was created. The record in the InventDim table does not get deleted if the unposted sales order is deleted. As always, fully test before executing in production.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 305,465 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi jwell,

As Anton mentioned, it is most likely failing on a validation if there are records in the Inventory dimensions table. For this purpose, there is a cleanup job available. Go to Inventory management > Periodic tasks > Cleanup and run the task Inventory dimensions cleanup. This will delete records without references on transaction tables.

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Thank you both for your answers. Very helpful

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Anton Venter 20,674 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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You're welcome!

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Ahmer 91 on at

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Hi @André Arnaud de Calavon,
I tried your suggestion in an UAT environment after facing a similar issue. Some warehouses were deleted successfully, however a few are still not getting deleted.

I checked the InventDim table using the InventLocationId filter for the warehouses that are still failing,and records are still present for those cases. However, after running the cleanup job again, even for a larger time period, no records are being deleted as the cleanup job reports that everything is already cleaned up.

Could you please guide me on what I should check next for these remaining records?

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André Arnaud de Cal... 305,465 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi Ahmar,

Have you checked if the warehouse is used in the past on various inventory transactions? If so, it will not delete the InventDim records. The cleanup task will only remove InventDim records that are not used in transactions.

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Ahmer 91 on at

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Hi Andre,

I checked the associated InventDim records for the warehouse and then verified whether those InventDim IDs were referenced in InventTrans. I connected directly to the UAT database and did not find any related records in InventTrans for these cases.

Given that, is there anything else you would recommend checking? Could this be a cache/service-related issue that might require a service restart, or is there another table where these InventDim records could still be referenced?

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André Arnaud de Cal... 305,465 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi Ahmer,

Yes, there are multiple tables where the InventDimId is used. E.g. the tables with default order settings and trade agreements are using it. You can check via table relations or cross reference tooling where it is used.

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