Big Ambitions Warehouse and Delivery Guide

“Not enough inventory at warehouse”, “deliveries not showing up”, “delivery driver not delivering” — these are among the most-searched problems in Big Ambitions, and they almost always come down to one of four missing pieces rather than a bug.

What a Warehouse Actually Is

A warehouse is technically a business, but it never appears under the BizMan banner because it does not serve customers. Its entire job is holding stock and pushing it to your stores. To function as a distribution hub it needs two employees:

• A Logistics Manager, who sits at a computer workstation in your headquarters (not in the warehouse). Higher-skilled logistics managers can handle more stores.
• A Delivery Driver, who is assigned to the warehouse itself and physically moves goods.

If you have a warehouse full of stock and empty shelves in your shops, check those two roles first. A logistics manager who is at their store limit will not silently expand to cover a new shop — you either hire a better one or hire a second.

Building Codes and Vehicle Capacity

Vehicle capacity is the number people underestimate. Floor space determines how much you can hold; vehicle capacity determines how fast it moves out. A Q3 warehouse and an I1 warehouse both run two vehicles — the bigger building buys storage, not throughput. If deliveries are backing up, more square metres will not fix it.

Storage: Pallet Shelves

Stock has to have somewhere to sit. Pallet shelves cost $2,500 from AJ Pederson & Son in the Garment District and hold 60 units of any item each. This matters for imports specifically: an importer will not deliver into a facility that has nowhere to put the goods, so a warehouse with too few shelves silently caps your order size.

Since 1.0 the importer UI shows box size when ordering, which makes it much easier to work out how many shelves an order needs before you place it.

The Four Reasons Deliveries Fail

1. No logistics manager, or one at their skill cap. They live at headquarters and there is no warning when they run out of capacity.
2. No delivery driver assigned to the warehouse, or one whose schedule does not overlap with your store’s opening hours.
3. Not enough pallet shelves to receive an inbound import.
4. Vehicle capacity saturated — an H-series warehouse running one vehicle serving four shops will fall behind no matter how much stock is on the shelves.

Auto-Restock

Once the chain is complete — importer contract → warehouse → logistics manager → delivery driver → store — restocking runs on its own. Two settings shape how it behaves:

• One-time delivery: imports the quantity you asked for, once.
• Repeating delivery: treats your number as a target stock level. Set 500, hold 200, receive 300. This is the setting you want for anything you sell continuously.

Deliveries arrive at midnight on the delivery day, and importer weekly limits reset Mondays at 08:00. Full detail on the import side is in suppliers and importers.

A 1.0 Change That Fixes a Classic Bug Report

Before 1.0, inventory distribution could starve one station while overfilling another. The release notes are explicit about the new behaviour: inventory is now distributed more evenly across your stores — with two empty cash registers and one box of paper bags, the first register takes only half the available stock instead of all of it.

Also fixed in 1.0: import orders are no longer cancelled if your purchasing agent is sick, which used to break supply chains silently. And you can now call and cancel truck deliveries and moving services, which previously ran to completion whether you still wanted them or not.

When to Build One

The trigger is two stores selling overlapping products. Below that, walk-in wholesalers are cheaper and simpler. Above it, a warehouse converts several shopping trips into one delivery run and unlocks importer contracts, which is the gateway to both bulk pricing and eventually manufacturing.