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SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP
EWM)...........................................................19
Warehouse
Structure...........................................................................................................21
Using the Refresh Rate
................................................................................................76
Make Browser Settings for the Easy Graphics
Framework..........................................79
Delivery Processing
.............................................................................................................80
Inbound
Delivery...........................................................................................................88
Menu Paths and Customizing Paths for Delivery Processing
....................................108
Warehouse
Request.......................................................................................................109
Creating a Warehouse Request for an Inbound
Delivery.......................................113
Generation of a Warehouse Request for an Outbound Delivery
Order..................116
Using Inactive and Active Document Versions
.......................................................119
Warehouse Request for Internal Stock Transfer
........................................................122
Internal Stock
Transfers..........................................................................................123
Performing Scrapping
.............................................................................................130
HU Integration in Delivery
Processing........................................................................136
User Interfaces in Delivery
Processing.......................................................................138
Printer Determination in Delivery
Processing.............................................................141
Delivery Split for Inbound
Deliveries...........................................................................154
Delivery Split for Outbound
Deliveries........................................................................156
Process Management and Control
.............................................................................160
Processing of Non-Picking-Relevant Delivery
Items..................................................162
Processing of Non-Putaway-Relevant Delivery
Items................................................164
Processing of Packaging Items
..................................................................................165
Fulfilling Immediate Deliveries with Direct Outbound Delivery
Orders.......................172
Scrapping Using a Direct Outbound Delivery
Order...................................................175
Availability
Check........................................................................................................176
Generate Inbound Delivery from Expected Goods Receipt
.......................................187
Generate Inbound Delivery Item from Expected Goods Receipt
...............................189
Goods Receipt Posting from
Production........................................................................191
Connection of Delivery Processing to Additional
Functions...........................................198
Connection of Delivery Processing to Yard
Management..........................................199
Connection of Delivery Processing to Transportation Management
..........................201
Route Determination in the
Delivery...........................................................................202
Executing Automatic Route Determination
.............................................................207
Route Determination on the User Interface
............................................................211
Connection of Delivery Processing to Serial
Numbers...............................................213
Connection to SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS)
.............................................214
Connection of Delivery Processing to Transit Procedure
.......................................215
Transit Procedure for Inbound
Deliveries............................................................216
Transit Procedure for Outbound
Deliveries.........................................................218
Connection of Deliv. Proc. to the Customs Warehousing Procedure
.....................221
Connection of Delivery Processing to Checks in SAP GTS
...................................222
Connection of Deliv. Processing to Determining Country of
Origin............................224
Connection of Delivery Processing to Post Processing Framework
..........................226
Configuration of PPF Action
Scheduling.................................................................227
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Automatic Generation of a VAS Order for the Warehouse Request
Item ..............231
Updating the Warehouse Request Using the VAS Order
.......................................232
Updating the VAS Order Using the Warehouse Request
.......................................233
Kit in the Warehouse Request for the Outbound Delivery Order
...............................234
Outbound Delivery Split for
Kits..............................................................................236
Delivery Quantity Correlation for
Kits......................................................................238
Integration of Delivery Processing with
Pickup...........................................................246
Communication from EWM to the ERP
System.............................................................248
Processing of Inbound
Deliveries...............................................................................251
Functional Enhancement Through Business Add-Ins (BAdIs)
...................................260
Data Enhancement for Warehouse
Requests............................................................261
Updating the Inbound Delivery in the GR Process
.................................................271
Layout-Oriented Storage
Control................................................................................275
Update of Results in Product
Master..........................................................................280
Update Attribute Storage Bin Improvable
...............................................................281
Consideration of Storage
Types.................................................................................282
Simulation of
Slotting..................................................................................................286
Counting
.........................................................................................................................295
Deconsolidation..............................................................................................................298
Putaway..........................................................................................................................300
Putaway Using Radio Frequency
...............................................................................306
Manual Assembly of Warehouse
Orders....................................................................309
Stock Removal Path
Determination............................................................................321
Partial Picking
.........................................................................................................325
Pick Denial
..............................................................................................................327
Cancellation of
Picking............................................................................................329
Updating the Outbound Delivery Order in the GI
Process......................................339
Layout-Oriented Storage
Control................................................................................340
Replenishment
Control...................................................................................................346
Kit to Order
.....................................................................................................................349
Kitting at a Work Center with a VAS
Order.................................................................353
VAS Order for the Kit Header Item of the Warehouse Request
.............................356
Kitting at a Work Center Without a VAS
Order...........................................................358
Kitting During Picking Without a VAS
Order...............................................................360
Packing at the Work Center
...........................................................................................362
Scrapping
.......................................................................................................................366
Putaway and Stock Removal
Strategies............................................................................374
Strategy: Near Fixed Picking
Bin................................................................................382
Example: Optional HU Check When Creating a WT
..............................................386
Strategy: Bulk
Storage................................................................................................387
Cross-Line Stock
Putaway..........................................................................................390
Examples of Capacity Check in Accordance with Capacity Key Figure
.................394
Stock Removal
Strategies..............................................................................................396
Strategy: Stringent FIFO Across All Storage Types
...................................................398
Strategy: LIFO (Last In, First Out)
..............................................................................399
Strategy: Partial Quantities
First.................................................................................400
Strategy: Shelf Life Expiration
Date............................................................................403
Determination of Priority for Inbound
Deliveries.............................................................414
Ad Hoc
Movement..........................................................................................................415
Limit Values for Warehouse Order Creation
Rules........................................................425
Printing Warehouse Orders and Warehouse
Tasks.......................................................426
Manual Assembly of Warehouse Orders
.......................................................................429
Interface Between EWM and Non-SAP
Systems...........................................................431
Scenarios for Connecting Non-SAP Systems
............................................................432
Connecting a Semi-Automated
Warehouse............................................................433
Connecting a Fully Automated Warehouse as a Black Box
...................................442
Data Flow: EWM Transmits Data
...............................................................................445
Managing TCP/IP
Settings......................................................................................448
Data
Formatting..........................................................................................................454
Description of the
IDocs..............................................................................................459
IDoc for Confirming Warehouse
Tasks...................................................................466
IDoc for Releasing
Waves.......................................................................................472
IDoc for Stock Movement with HUs
........................................................................475
IDoc Error
Processing.................................................................................................477
Modification Options
...................................................................................................483
Handling Unit
(HU).............................................................................................................490
SSCC Number Assignment According to EAN128
....................................................505
Packing at the Work Center
...........................................................................................506
Automatic Packing in the Inbound
Delivery....................................................................510
Packing During Warehouse Task Confirmation.
............................................................511
Deconsolidation Using Radio Frequency
.......................................................................512
Usage of Stock
Identification..........................................................................................521
Stock Identification When Splitting Stock in the GR Process
........................................524
Stock Identification When Splitting Stock in the GI
Process..........................................526
Value-Added Services
(VAS).............................................................................................527
VAS Order
......................................................................................................................528
Goods Issue Process with VAS Order
...........................................................................533
Create and Edit VAS Orders
..........................................................................................536
Processing a VAS Order
................................................................................................538
Auxiliary Product Consumption Posting
.........................................................................542
Detailed Process
Description......................................................................................555
Example Scenario for PD/PFGR with Storage Control
..............................................564
Additional Functions in Cross-Docking
..........................................................................568
Business Add-Ins in Cross-Docking
...........................................................................569
Serial Number
....................................................................................................................571
Making Settings for Serial Numbers (ERP System and EWM)
..................................579
Serial Numbers for Document Items
..........................................................................581
Serial Numbers at Warehouse Number
Level............................................................583
Serial Numbers in Inventory Management
.................................................................585
Entering and Editing Serial
Numbers.............................................................................587
Integration of the Serial Number in the Delivery
.....................................................592
Warehouse Task Creation with Reference to a Warehouse
Request........................595
Using Serial Numbers in a Warehouse
Task..............................................................597
Specifying Serial Numbers for Warehouse Task Creation
.........................................599
Confirming Warehouse Tasks with Predetermined Serial Numbers
..........................601
Using Serial Numbers in the Work
Center..................................................................602
Using Serial Numbers in the Warehouse Management Monitor
................................604
Using Serial Numbers in an RF
Environment.............................................................605
Shipping and Receiving
.....................................................................................................607
Loading and Unloading
..................................................................................................608
Vehicle............................................................................................................................612
Assignment of Deliveries to Vehicles and TUs
..............................................................617
Printer and Form Determination in Shipping and Receiving
..........................................618
Yard
Management..........................................................................................................619
Yard
............................................................................................................................621
Checkpoint..................................................................................................................622
Printer and Form Determination in Transportation
Management...............................636
Authorizations in Transportation
Management...........................................................637
General Transportation Cost Profile
...........................................................................649
Static Route
Determination.........................................................................................653
Scheduling
..................................................................................................................656
Labor Management (LM)
...................................................................................................685
Processor....................................................................................................................689
Formula and Condition
Editor.....................................................................................691
Indirect Labor Tasks Using Radio Frequency
............................................................701
Function Key Settings for Indirect Labor Tasks in the RF
Environment .................702
Engineered Labor Standards
.........................................................................................704
Planned and Executed
Workload...................................................................................713
Labor Management (LM) in the Warehouse Management
Monitor............................720
Preprocessing
................................................................................................................722
BAdIs for
Preprocessing.............................................................................................727
Analytical Functions
...........................................................................................................739
Warehouse Order Selection
.......................................................................................757
Warehouse Order
Prioritization...............................................................................761
Deconsolidation Using Radio Frequency
...................................................................799
Putaway Using Radio Frequency
...............................................................................800
Confirmation Correction Using Radio
Frequency.......................................................803
Yard Movement Using Radio
Frequency....................................................................811
Querying Using Radio Frequency
..............................................................................812
Resource Management Using Radio
Frequency........................................................814
Enhancement Screen
Wizard.........................................................................................816
Split Screen
Wizard........................................................................................................818
Repeating or Resending an Acknowledged
Telegram...................................................834
MFS in the Warehouse Management Monitor
...............................................................835
Analyze Logs
..............................................................................................................837
Status Management
.......................................................................................................839
Exception Handling
........................................................................................................841
Master
Data....................................................................................................................855
Quality Inspection
Engine...............................................................................................888
Dynamic
Modification..............................................................................................907
Dynamic Modification at Inspection Decision
..................................................915
Sample-Drawing
Procedure....................................................................................917
Sample-Drawing
Unit...........................................................................................919
Sample-Drawing
Instruction.............................................................................920
Document
Assignment................................................................................................921
Inspection
Document..................................................................................................922
Introduction
.............................................................................................................943
Authorizations
.........................................................................................................950
Other Security-Relevant
Information.......................................................................958
EH&S
Services...................................................................................................................967
Dangerous Goods Management
....................................................................................973
Transfer Stock
Data....................................................................................................979
Authorizations.................................................................................................................985
EWM: Warehouse
Manager...........................................................................................988
EWM: Warehouse
Expert...............................................................................................993
EWM: Warehouse Specialist for Goods Issue
.............................................................1004
EWM: Warehouse Specialist for Yard
Management....................................................1007
EWM: Warehouse
Worker............................................................................................1009
Data
Archiving..................................................................................................................1019
Archiving in Delivery Processing
(SCM-ECT-DLP)..................................................1024
Archiving Internal Warehouse Requests (SCM-ECT-DLP)
..................................1028
Archiving Warehouse Requests from External Systems
(SCM-ECT-DLP)..........1030
Archiving in Quality
Management.............................................................................1032
Archiving - Inspection Documents
(CA-QIE).........................................................1033
Archiving Vehicle Activities
(SCM-EWM-SR)........................................................1045
Archiving TU Activities
(SCM-EWM-SR)...............................................................1048
Archiving Door Activities
(SCM-EWM-SR)............................................................1052
Archiving in Transportation
Management.................................................................1055
Archiving Shipments (SCM-EWM-TM)
.................................................................1056
Archiving Freight Documents
(SCM-EWM-TM)....................................................1058
Archiving in Wave Management
(SCM-EWM-WAV)................................................1062
Archiving Telegram Flows (SCM-EWM-WOP)
.....................................................1066
Archiving Relevant Resource Data
(SCM-EWM-WOP-RM).................................1068
Archiving Performance Documents
(SCM-EWM-LM-EP).....................................1075
Archiving Executed Workload
(SCM-EWM-LM-WL).............................................1077
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)
Purpose
Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) offers you flexible,
automated support for processing various goods movements and for
managing stocks in your warehouse complex. The system supports
planned and efficient processing of all logistics processes in your
warehouse.
Introductory Notes
If you manage your warehouse stocks using the application
componentInventory Management (MM-IM), you manage the
quantities and values of stocks in several storage locations.
In contrast, EWM gives you the option of mapping your entire
warehouse complex in detail in the system, down to storage bin
level. Not only does this give you an overview of the total
quantity of a product in the warehouse, but you can also always see
exactly where a specific product is, at any time, in your warehouse
complex. With EWM, you can optimize the use of various storage bins
and stock movements, and can store together stocks from several
plants in randomly-managed warehouse. Using EWM, you can control
and optimize various processes in the warehouse.
Integration
EWM is completely integrated into Inventory Management and Delivery
Processing. Business processes, which you trigger in other
application components, lead to physical goods movements in your
warehouse. You organize, control, and monitor these goods movements
using EWM.
Features
Storage Bin Management and Optimization
You map the entirety of your storage facilities in EWM. You can set
up different storage facilities such as automatic warehouses,
high-rack storage areas, bulk storage areas, or fixed bin
warehouses, in various storage types [Seite 25], according to your
requirements.
You manage the stocks at storage bin level. You can define these
storage bins according to your own requirements. Every storage bin
in your warehouse is mapped in the system. This enables you to
constantly track all stock movements in detail. You can see exactly
where a specific product is located in your warehouse. You can also
use EWM to optimize storage bin management, since EWM takes on a
large part of optimizing the products, so that each product is
assigned to the correct storage bin, depending on its size and
frequency of access.
Inventory Management and EWM are fully integrated. Using the
physical inventory procedures and the entry of stock differences,
the system ensures that the book inventory balance in Inventory
Management always matches the warehouse stock in EWM.
Goods Movements
You process all goods movements that affect your warehouse using
EWM, such as goods receipts, goods issues, stock transfers, and
automatic replenishment. These movements can include goods
receipts, goods issues, stock transfers, automatic replenishment,
management of dangerous goods, layout-oriented and process-oriented
storage control, effective work preparation using automatic wave
pick creation, resource optimization using rule-based bundling of
warehouse tasks, or processing of inventory differences in your
warehouse.
Work Center
You can use the work center [Seite 35] to map a physical unit
in the warehouse, which you use to carry out warehouse activities
such as packing, deconsolidation, weighing, quality inspections,
and counting. You can personalize each work center, so that each
user sees exactly those fields, data, and tab pages that are
necessary for their work.
Physical Inventory
You use physical inventory [Seite 667] to regularly perform a
physical stock take in your warehouse. You compare the actual,
existing, physical, stock with the data managed in EWM. By entering
physical inventory differences, you update the accounting data for
the stock, according to the results of the physical stock take. If
you have performed physical inventory at least once in a fiscal
year for each storage bin/each product, the physical inventory is
classed as complete.
If you use EWM, the physical inventory is performed atWarehouse
Management level. You can perform a physical inventory based on
products and/or based on storage bins. There is a difference
monitor available, with configurable tolerance groups, which you
can use to define maximum values for posting differences for each
user. In addition, the system supports automatic posting according
to time intervals, different priorities for each individual
inventory procedure, a zero stock check, and a low stock check. The
radio frequency functions are integrated into the physical
inventory and support you when you perform the different physical
inventory procedures, such as cycle counting, physical inventory
during putaway, and physical inventory using zero stock check.
Handling units are fully integrated into the physical inventory
process.
Planning and Monitoring
EWN gives you an overview of all goods movements and warehouse
stocks. The system supports you in planning, monitoring, and
optimizing work processes. For example, it gives you a preview of
the workloads for the coming days, or enables you to take
preventive action in critical warehouse processes, so that you can
perform stock movements on time. The extensive monitoring functions
give you a current view of all activities in the warehouse. You can
control the actual work in the warehouse using the individual
monitors.
Radio Frequency Connection
To structure the work in the warehouse efficiently and
cost-effectively, you control the warehouse workers’ work steps
clearly and simply via mobile radio-frequency terminals.
The radio frequency connection [Seite 781] (RF connection) to
mobile data entry achieves fast and accurate data transfer. The RF
devices receive data directly from the SAP system and transfer data
back to the system. You can enter and verify information using bar
codes. This means that you ensure a high standard of quality in
your warehouse.
Warehouse Control
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) 510 21
Warehouse Structure Before you implement Extended Warehouse
Management (EWM), you must define the structure, meaning the
physical structure, of your warehouse or warehouse complex and map
this in the system.
When you implement EWM, you define the individual warehouses
(high-rack storage area, bulk storage area, picking storage area,
and so on) as storage types within a warehouse complex, and join
them together under one warehouse number.
If other warehouses (storage types) exist that you do not manage
using EWM, then you should define other storage locations.
In EWM, you define storage bins for each storage type. EWM uses
these to manage stock information about all products in the
warehouse, at storage bin level.
Mapping the Physical Warehouse in EWM
Warehouse Number
Storage Section
Storage Type
Storage Bin
The warehouse structure in warehouse management is divided
hierarchically and consists of the following elements:
Warehouse number
In EWM, you can manage an entire physical warehouse complex using a
single warehouse number.
Storage type
You can define the individual warehouse facilities or warehouses
that make up the warehouse complex, using their technical, spatial,
and organizational characteristics as storage types.
Storage section
Storage bin
Each storage type and storage section consists of a selection of
storage compartments that are called storage bins in EWM. The
coordinates of the storage bin tell you the exact position in the
warehouse, where you can store products.
Quant
The quant is used for inventory management of a product in a
storage bin.
Activity area
The activity area is a logical grouping of storage bins. It can
refer to a storage bin, or can concatenate bins from several
storage types.
You can either assign storage bins manually to the activity areas,
or if there is a 1:1 relationship between storage type and activity
area, you can have the system generate the assignment.
To map the structure of your physical warehouse in the system, you
define the warehouse structures in EWM in Customizing. We recommend
that you use the following sequence when configuring the warehouse
structure in the system.
In the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM, choose Extended
Warehouse Management →
Master Data → ... ...
5. Activity Areas→ Define Activity Area
6. Activity Areas→ Assign Storage Bins to Activity
Areas
...
Warehouse Number
Definition
In Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), you combine an entire
physical warehouse under one warehouse number . You can use
the warehouse number to manage several storage facilities, which
together form the complete warehouse complex.
Use
The organizational and physical attributes of a warehouse complex
are collected together under the warehouse number.
For example, the weight unit, volume unit, and time unit are
defined at warehouse number level. You can also define
determination procedures for palletization data andpackaging
specifications [Seite 494] here. You should not change these
settings at a later time.
We recommend using one warehouse number for each group of storage
areas or buildings (warehousing complex) in the same geographical
area. If your warehousing facilities are located in different
cities or are physically separated by a longer distance, it is
appropriate to assign a separate warehouse number to each warehouse
complex.
For more information about defining a warehouse number, see the
Implementation Guide
(IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under Master Data →
Define Warehouse Number Control.
You must make a one-time assignment between the warehouse number
and asupply chain unit [Seite 53] with the business character
Warehouse as a continuous setting. For more
information, see the IMG for Extended Warehouse Management
under Master Data → Assign Warehouse Numbers.
Note, however, that you must make this assignment in the production
system. For this reason, you should make this setting from the SAP
menu under Extended Warehouse Management
→ Settings → Assignments: Warehouse
Numbers/Business Partners.
The supply chain unit contains essential information, such as
country, region, and time zone. The system uses the time zone for
the warehouse number when displaying all date and time fields. You
can create a supply chain unit in the SAP menu underExtended
Warehouse Management → Master Data → Maintain
Supply Chain Unit.
As soon as you actively use a warehouse number, for example
because you have already created a warehouse number product, you
should no longer change the assignment of the supply chain unit to
the warehouse number. Doing so can result in follow-on
errors.
Example
Goods receipt area
Goods issue area
Bulk storage area
Storage space outdoors for special substances
Storage Type
Definition
A storage type is a storage space, storage facility, or
storage zone, which you define for a warehouse number in Extended
Warehouse Management (EWM). The storage type is a physical or
logical subdivision of a warehouse complex, which is characterized
by its warehouse technologies, space required, organizational form,
or function. A storage type consists of one or more storage
bins.
You can define the following commonly-usedphysical storage
types in EWM:
Bulk storage area
General storage area
Use
The storage types form the warehouse complex and can be located in
one or more buildings. You manage all storage types under a single
warehouse number.
The standard system for EWM comes configured with several complete
storage types that you can use straightaway. These include:
High rack storage area
General storage area
Pallet storage area
These storage types have all been defined with different control
indicators for putaway and picking.
You can use the standard storage types as the basis for your
individual settings, or you can create your own storage types to
meet the special requirements of your company.
Defining Control Indicators in the Storage Type
At storage type level, you must specify the control
indicators that control the material flow (putaway and picking) in
each storage type. These include the control indicators for:
Putaway
Stock removal (picking)
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) 510 26
You can only activate or deactivate the level of the available
quantities and handling unit management requirement, if there are
no stocks present within a storage type.
We recommend that you only change the capacity check for a storage
type if no more stocks are present within the storage type.
Particular care should be taken if you subsequently change the
putaway behavior for putaway.
In the storage type, there are indicators that you can override in
the warehouse process category. This means that specific functions,
such as the confirmation requirements for putaway and picking or
the option for posting changes to the same storage bin, are valid
for specific storage types, but are not valid for a specific
posting.
For more information about changing the predefined storage types or
creating new storage types, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for
EWM underExtended Warehouse Management → Master Data
→ Define Storage Type.
Example
You can define several storage types for each warehouse number. The
following figure shows five storage types that are assigned to a
warehouse number:
Storage Type
Activity Area
Definition
Logical section of the warehouse that groups storage bins based on
defined warehouse activities.
Examples of activity areas include:
Putaway [Seite 300]
Picking [Seite 322]
Inventory [Seite 667]
Use
You use activity areas to provide logical subdivisions in your
warehouse. In these activity areas, different warehouse workers
execute certain warehouse activities, such as putaway or
picking.
You create activity-dependent bin sortings within an activity area.
Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) uses these bin sortings to
optimize the execution of warehouse tasks.
Structure
An activity area consists of one or more assigned storage
bins.
You can define the assigned storage bins using the following
attributes:
Aisle
Stack
Level
Any assigned deconsolidation groups
You can sort these storage bins into any sequence you want, and
assign as many activities to them as you require.
For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG)
forExtended Warehouse Management under Master Data
→ Activity Areas → Assign Storage Bins to Activity Areas
and Define Sort Sequence for Activity Area.
To be able to work with activity areas, you have to generate the
bin sorting.
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management
→
Master Data → Storage Bin → Sort Storage
Bins.
You can generate activity areas from storage types in Customizing.
For more
Integration
EWM generates warehouse orders [Seite 419] for each activity
area.
Storage Section
Definition
In Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), a storage
section is an organizational subdivision of a storage type,
which joins together storage bins with similar attributes for the
purpose of putaway. The criteria for joining these bins together
can be defined in any way, for example, heavy parts, bulky parts,
fast-moving items, slow-moving items.
Use
You can use the storage section as an organizational aid for
putting away goods in the warehouse. When you use storage types and
storage sections, you must define the organizational aims clearly.
The physical location is the main organizational factor. It is not
absolutely mandatory that you subdivide a storage type into two or
more storage sections. However, you must create at least
one storage section for each storage type.
You can only define control parameters and control values in
thestorage type.
For information on how to define a storage section for a storage
type, see the Implementation
Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under Master
Data → Define Storage Sections.
Example
High rack storage areas frequently consist of many storage bins
that vary in size. For example, in many such storage areas, the
bins in the lower level are larger for especially large and heavy
parts, while those in the upper levels are smaller.
The following figure shows a high-rack storage area divided into
two storage sections. You use the front storage section for
fast-moving items, and the back storage section for slow- moving
items.
Bin type
High bins
Low bins
Low bins
Storage section
Storage Bin
Definition
A storage type consists of a selection of storage spaces,
which are calledstorage bins in Extended Warehouse Management
(EWM). The storage bin is the smallest spatial unit in a
warehouse. Therefore, the storage bin represents the exact position
in the warehouse where products are and/or can be stored.
Since the address of a storage bin is frequently derived from a
coordinate system, a storage bin is often referred to as a
coordinate. For example, the coordinate 01-02-03 could be a storage
bin in aisle 1, stack 2, and level 3.
Use
To each storage bin, you assign the warehouse number in which the
storage bin is located. You just also assign a storage type [Seite
25] and storage section [Seite 29] to each storage
bin.
You can also define the following additional attributes for a
storage bin:
Maximum weight
Total capacity
Fire-containment section
Storage bin type (for example, for large or small
pallets)
In some putaway strategies, the storage bin type plays an important
role during optimization of the automatic search for a storage bin,
in connection with the pallet type. For example, you can define the
putaway strategy in such a way that you put away large industrial
pallets into special large bins, and smaller pallets into small
bins.
For information about defining storage bins, see the Implementation
Guide (IMG) for
Extended Warehouse Management under Master Data → Storage
Bins.
Structure
Quant
Definition
Stock of a specific product with the same characteristics in
one storage bin [Seite 30], resource [Seite 752], and
transportation unit [Seite 613]. The system manages different
batches of a product as different quants. You can increase the
quantity of a quant by adding to the existing stock. Quants can
only be created and deleted using movements.
Use
Quants are used to manage stocks at storage bin level, resources,
and transportation units.
When you put a product away into an empty bin in Extended Warehouse
Management (EWM), the system generates a quant in this storage bin.
When you remove the quantity from storage, the system automatically
deletes the quant.
In the quant record, the system manages the data for the products
collected together in the quant. This data includes:
Quant identification
Door
Definition
Location in the warehouse where the goods arrive at or leave the
warehouse. The door is an organizational unit that you assign to
the warehouse number.
Vehicles [Seite 612] and their transportation units (TUs)
[Seite 613] drive up to the doors of a warehouse to load or
unload goods there. The doors are in close proximity to the
relevant staging areas [Seite 33].
Use
To control putaway and stock removal processes in your warehouse,
you can define doors and staging areas within a warehouse
number.
You can assign various functions to a door:
Inbound
Outbound
Inbound and outbound
In delivery processing, the system uses determination rules to
determine the following for each delivery item:
Staging area groups
Doors
The determination rules are influenced by the possible assignments
that you have defined in Customizing between doors and staging
areas as well as between doors and staging area/door determination
groups. The system updates the delivery at item level with the
values that it finds.
You define doors in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management
(EWM) under Master Data → Warehouse Door → Define
Warehouse Door. You assign staging areas and staging
area/door determination groups to your doors underMaster Data
→ Warehouse Door.
Structure
You assign each door to a storage bin that you can use to post
goods receipts or goods issues. You assign this storage bin to a
storage type with the storage type roleF.
You can also assign doors to supply chain units [Seite 53] to
control authorization checks. You can also assign doors to yard
bins (seeYard Management [Seite 619]).
See also:
Staging Area
Definition
Organizational unit that is assigned hierarchically to the
warehouse number and that is used to organize the flow of goods in
the warehouse.
Use
Staging areas are used for the interim storage of goods in the
warehouse. They are located in close proximity to the doors [Seite
32] assigned to them. You can define staging areas for
different purposes and even simultaneously for multiple
purposes:
Goods receipt
Interim storage of unloaded goods until they are put away
Goods issue
Interim storage of picked goods until they are loaded
In Customizing, you define staging areas and assign the staging
areas to the relevant doors. For more information, see the
Implementation Guide (IMG) forExtended Warehouse Management (EWM)
under Master Data → Staging Areas → Define
Staging Areas and Master Data → Warehouse
Door → Assign Staging Area to Warehouse
Door .
Structure
You can group multiple staging areas into staging area groups. The
staging area group corresponds to a storage type (storage type role
“D”), while the staging area corresponds to a storage section. You
can divide each staging area into one or more storage bins. You
need multiple storage bins, for example, if you want to define a
loading sequence.
See also:
Work Center
Definition
The work center is a physical unit in the warehouse, in which you
can perform warehouse activities such as packing, distribution, or
weighing.
Use
You can use the work center in the following processes:
Packing
Deconsolidation
Counting
Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) contains the following
transaction types for the work center:
Packing - General
Deconsolidation
This transaction type is for distributing mixed handling units
(HUs) into HUs for non- mixed deconsolidation groups.
Quality Inspection and Count
This transaction type is for entering count and inspection results,
and for confirming inspection results.
Packing in the Staging Area
This transaction type is for packing together HUs according to the
criterionStop on Route.
You must assign each work center to a warehouse number, storage
type, and storage bin. Note that you can only use storage types
that have the storage type role ‘Work Center’ (E), ‘Pick Point’
(B), or ‘Identification and Pick Point’ (C). You can configure more
than once work center for each storage type in the system.
You can assign an inbound and outbound section to each work
section. For more information about setting up work centers, see
the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM underExtended Warehouse
Management → Master Data → Work Center .
Example
The following example shows you various options, for example, on
how a work center for deconsolidation can be structured:
Outb. Section Work Center
You can also join work centers together into work center groups.
This means that you can send individual products or HUs to a work
center group, which corresponds to a storage section. In the above
example, this would be a warehouse task to storage section
0001.
Resource
Definition
A resource is an entity representing a user or equipment,
which can execute work in the warehouse.
Use
A resource can log on to a radio frequency (RF) or non-RF
environment.
Once the resource is logged on to the system, it can receive work
for execution, and can be tracked and displayed in the warehouse
management monitor [Seite 878].
For more information about logging on to an RF environment,
seeLogon [Seite 790].
For more information about how resources receive work,
see Assignment of Warehouse Order to Resource [Seite
755].
Structure
A resource belongs to a resource type [Seite 753] and
resource group [Seite 754].
You define a resource in the transaction for resource maintenance.
To do so on
the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse
Management →
Resource Type
Definition
A resource type is a grouping of resources with similar
technical or physical qualifications.
Use
The resource type determines the following for its
correspondingresources [Seite 752]:
Horizontal velocity
The velocity of a resource can influence the LSD of a warehouse
order (WO).
For more information, see Latest Starting Date (LSD) [Seite
760].
Applicability of position management
For more information, see Position Management [Seite 795].
Qualifications and preferences (reflected by priority
values) regardingbin access types [Extern] and HU type groups
[Extern]
The qualifications and priority values influence which WOs are
selected for a resource requesting work.
For more information, see Warehouse Order Selection [Seite
757].
You define resource types, and assign to them qualifications, in
Customizing for
Extended Warehouse Management → Cross-Process Settings
→ Resource Management → Define Resource Types.
Resource Group
Definition
A resource group is a grouping of resources forqueue [Seite
764] assignment purposes.
Use
The resource group determines the sequence of allowed queues for
its corresponding resources [Seite 752], which can influence which
WOs are selected for a resource. For more information, see
Warehouse Order Selection [Seite 757].
You assign/unassign a resource group to/from a queue using the
queue sequence for resource group transaction, accessed on theSAP
Easy Access
Warehouse Product
Definition
Warehouse-number-dependent view of the product master data. The
warehouse product comprises all the properties of a product that
relate to its storage in a certain warehouse within the framework
of Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), such as the putaway
control indicator.
Use You need the warehouse product if you wish to use a product
whose global data you have already maintained in the product master
inEWM. You can create or change a warehouse product via the SAP
menu underExtended Warehouse Management → Master Data
→ Maintain Warehouse Product. Entry of the warehouse number
[Seite 23] and the ‘party entitled to dispose’ is mandatory,
because the warehouse-number-dependent data pertaining to the
warehouse product applies only to this warehouse number and this
party.
Structure
The warehouse-number-dependent data on the warehouse product can be
found on the following tab pages in the maintenance function for
warehouse products:
Warehouse data
Here you maintain data on the warehouse in which the product is
stored.
Slotting
Storage type data
Here you maintain data on the type of facility in which the product
is stored. For more information, see Storage Type [Seite 25].
Integration
Global, warehouse-number-independent data pertaining to the storage
of the product can be found on the Storage tab page. This tab
page is also displayed in product master maintenance.
The following warehouse-number-independent data on the storage of a
product is adopted in EWM from the ERP system.
Handling unit types
Warehouse product group
Warehouse storage condition
Warehouse handling indicator
Serial number profiles
Quality inspection groups
Hazardous Substance
Definition
Substance that can pose a danger to humans, animals, or the
environment when being handled or stored. The handling and storage
of hazardous substances is governed by law.
For more information, see the SAP Help Portal underSAP ERP Central
Component →
Logistics → Environment, Health and Safety
(EHS) → Hazardous Substance Management
(EHS-HSM) → Hazardous Substance Master
→ Hazardous Substance.
Packaging Specification
Definition
A packaging specification is master data. The packaging
specification defines all the necessary packing levels for a
product in order, for example, to put away or transport the
product. For a product, a packaging specification mainly describes
in which quantities you can pack the product into which packaging
materials in which sequence.
Use
In printed form, a packaging specification is a set of
instructions for the employee in the warehouse. More specifically,
the work steps that you enter in a packaging specification are
intended as information for the employee. In this way you can, for
example, give the employee exact instructions as to where to place
the label on a box, or how a product should be stacked onto a
pallet.
The system can determine packaging specifications during
various processes (see below). Processes that determine packaging
specifications use only parts or specific attributes from the
packaging specification.
Structure
Header
Pack. mat. Work stepElement 2
Level 2 Pack. mat. Work stepElement 1
Level n Pack. mat. Work stepElement 1
Product
Packaging
specification
OR
Header
Contents
A packaging specification contains a product. However, some
packaging specifications contain more than one product, or refer to
other packaging specifications.
Level
You can map various packing levels in a packaging specification.
Each level contains a target quantity, which defines how many times
you can pack the previous level into this level.
Element group
For each level there is exactly one element group. However, you can
reuse element groups in several packaging specifications.
Elements
Elements consist of a packaging material and/or a work step.
Step
A text with an identification, which you can use in one or
more packaging specifications.
Packaging material
A product that is defined with a packaging material type in
the product master.
Example for a Packaging Specification and Its Structure:
Header: Name: PS1, Status: New
Contents: product A, 1 piece
Level 1: Target quantity one, element group EG1
Element group EG1:
Element E1: packaging material ‘Small box’, work step ‘Place
1 piece upright in each box’
Element E2: additional packaging material ‘Label’, work step
‘Place label on upper left’
Level 2: Target quantity 50, shift quantity 10, element group
EG2
Element group EG2:
Element E3: packaging material ‘Pallet’, work step ‘Place
boxes layer by layer onto pallet’
Integration
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processes
In both the Inventory Collaboration Hub (ICH) and in Extended
Warehouse Management (EWM), you can use the same packaging
specification for an inbound delivery or an ASN that you then use
for the Automatic Packing [Seite 510] process.
Example
Palletization data in EWM
In your warehouse, you put away product A onto pallets for 50
pieces. Create a packaging specification with a level that contains
the main packaging material Pallet and the contents Product A. For
this level, enter the target quantity 50.
In the process ‘Putaway’ for the inbound delivery, the system
splits the quantity in the inbound delivery across multiple
warehouse tasks, due to this packaging specification. For example,
if a quantity of 100 pieces is delivered, then the system creates
two warehouse tasks for 50 pieces.
Functions of the Packaging Specification
The following functions are possible for packaging
specifications:
Create, copy, and activate (see also: Creation of Packaging
Specifications [Seite497])
Determine (see also: Packaging Specification Determination
[Seite499])
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Route
Definition
Sequence of legs that are connected by transshipment locations
[Extern].
Use
The route represents a framework or corridor that comprises a
multitude of trips, in other words, possible concrete itineraries.
The system uses routes to determine trips inroute determination
[Seite 638].
Structure
Leg
A leg is assigned uniquely to a route, in other words, it
cannot be part of multiple routes. You define legs as a sequence of
stops. Each stop is asupply chain unit (SCU) [Seite 53], in other
words, a location or zone [Seite 646]. The stops that connect two
consecutive legs must be locations.
By specifying whether the stop-offs are optional or mandatory, you
define which locations the carrier is to serve in which
order.
You assign exactly one means of transport to each leg. In most
cases, adjacent legs of a route have different means of transport.
However, it might also be necessary to change legs due to various
properties of the legs. Nonetheless, in most cases, the legs of a
route represent its unimodal parts.
Stop
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In static route determination, the system determines the mode of
transport for foreign trade for outbound shipments (trips) in the
following sequence:
1. Country of first location
2. Part of the location sequence of the trip that runs from the
first location within this country
3. The first location in this part of the location sequence when
going backward that is a stop along the leg and for which a mode of
transport for foreign trade was defined, in other words, the
location that lies closest to the border.
Carrier Assignment
You can assign as many different carriers as you want to your means
of transport or any of its subordinate means of transport for the
leg. You can specify whether dangerous goods can be transported for
each such combination of leg, means of transport, and
carrier.
In static route determination, the system defines the carrier for a
trip as the carrier for the first leg who can transport dangerous
goods, if required, and for which you have defined the lowest costs
for transportation along this leg in the carrier profile.
Departure Calendar Assignment
You can define a departure calendar for the leg. If the departures
for a specific request type do not correspond with the departure
calendar for the leg, you can also define a specific departure
calendar for this request type.
The system takes into account departure calendars whenscheduling
[Seite 656] a trip for both the start location of the request
and for each transshipment location served.
Validity and Restrict ions
You can restrict the validity of a route by specifying the
following:
A validity period that the system compares with the
cutoff time of a single request.
Permitted shipping conditions that the system compares with
the shipping conditions of a single request.
Permitted request types that the system compares with the request
type of a single request.
You can specify permitted request types at the header level of the
route and for each stop within the leg (customer, for example). The
request types at stop level must be part of the request types that
you specify at header level. Request types at stop level have a
higher priority than those at header level. Accordingly, the
request types at header level are valid for those stops for which
you have not defined separate request types.
Permitted transportation groups that the system compares
with the transportation groups of the products in a single
request.
Weight limits for single and collective requests that the
system compares with the total weight of the products in the single
request or in multiple combined requests
You can also specify weight limits for single and collective
requests for each stop within a leg. These limits overwrite the
relevant limits that you specify for the route at header
level.
Volume limits for single and collective requests that the
system compares with the total volume of the products in the single
request or in multiple combined requests
You can also specify volume limits for single and collective
requests for each stop within a leg. These limits overwrite the
relevant limits that you specify for the route at header
level.
Dimension limits (length, width, and height)
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You can specify the maximum dimensions that a product is permitted
to have to be valid for a certain route. The system compares these
dimensions with those that you defined in the product master.
Cross-Docking Route
Definition
One or more inbound routes or one or more outbound routes that are
connected by exactly one cross-docking location (warehouse or
distribution center relevant to cross-docking).
Use
You use cross-docking routes (CD routes) to link routes to route
networks. The system takes into account CD routes when you use
route determination [Seite 638] as part of cross-docking
[Seite 544]. Here you can define per route pair (inbound route and
outbound route) whether goods at the cross-docking location (CD
location) are to remain on the same vehicle or whether they are be
loaded onto a different vehicle.
Structure
To define a CD route, you must make the following settings:
You specify a CD location for the route at header
level.
You specify one or more inbound routes on theCD
Routes tab page. Here the destination location of all these
routes must be identical with the CD location.
You specify one or more outbound routes on theCD
Routes tab page. Here the start location of all these routes
must be identical with the CD location.
By specifying a different CD route as the inbound or outbound
route, you can create a route network with multiple CD locations.
Here an outbound CD route from CD location 1 must have at least one
inbound route with the start locationCD location 1. An inbound CD
route to CD location 2 must have at least one outbound route with
the destination location CD location 2.
On the CD Attributes tab page, you define the required
attributes, for example, whether transshipment is not required
(goods remain on the same vehicle), for the route pairs that
consist of inbound and outbound routes.
You define CD routes in the master data forExtended Warehouse
Management (EWM) under Master Data → Shipping and
Receiving → Route Determination → Maintain
Route.
Example
Cross-
Docking
Location 1
R o u t e 1 ( I n b o u n d )
R o u t e
2
3
Cross-Docking Route 1
R o u t e 6
Vehicle
Definition A specialization of a particular means of
transport. A vehicle can comprise one or more transportation units
[Seite 613].
Use
You define vehicles in the master data for transportation. You use
vehicles to group deliveries and to communicate with invoicing and
Transportation Management (TM) [Seite 629].
If you assign transportation units to a vehicle in a fixed way, you
cannot assign these transportation units to another vehicle. In
this case, data that you define for the vehicle is also valid for
the assigned transportation units.
The dimensions of the vehicle come from the means of transport that
you assign to the vehicle, and are used as the planned size.
Integration
When the loading process has been completed, a status change
triggers the sending of a message to TM that enables bills of
lading to be created automatically (see Integration of TM with the
Loading Process [Seite635]).
Before goods issue posting, you can create the current
invoice via an invoice request to SAP CRM Billing (see Invoice
Creation Before Goods Issue [Seite368]).
Example
Transportation Unit
Definition
The smallest loadable unit of a vehicle [Seite 612] that is
used to transport goods. The transportation unit (TU) can be a
fixed part of the vehicle.
The following figure shows different transportation units:
Vehicle 1: Semitrailer truck with one transportation
unit
Vehicle 2: Truck with cargo area and trailer, in other
words, two transportation units
Vehicle 1
You map transportation units as handling units (HUs) and assign
packaging materials to them. By linking these packaging materials
to means of transport, you define construction rules for your
vehicles. In this way, you define, for example, how many
transportation units a vehicle is supposed to have and the order in
which they are to be arranged. You also specify whether a
transportation unit is to be optional or obligatory:
Obligatory transportation units are a fixed part of a
vehicle (fixed assignment). You cannot assign them to another
vehicle, for example, truck cargo area.
You can assign optional transportation units to other
vehicles, for example, trailer for a truck.
Use
You define transportation units in the master data for
transportation. You use them for inventory management in the
yard.
Example
Compartment in a tank truck
Container
Supply Chain Unit (SCU)
Definition
Physical or organizational unit that is used with one or more
business characters within a logistical process. An organizational
unit may be a goods receiving office or a shipping office, for
example.
The business characters are predefined by SAP.
Use
With the SCU, you can replicate certain business characters of
locations, such asdoor or warehouse, which you need in
the processes of Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). You can
use an SCU with different business characters. An SCU can
simultaneously be used as a planning location and a shipping
office, for example.
You can create hierarchies of SCUs to represent the organization of
a supply chain.
You can create, change, and delete SCUs via the SAP menu,
underExtended Warehouse Management → Master
Data → Maintain Supply Chain Unit.
Structure
The SCU contains general data and address data of the corresponding
location. In contrast to the latter, however, it does not contain
any further global or application-specific data. The SCU also has
one or more business characters.
You will find this SCU data on the following tab pages:
General
General header data of the SCU/location, such as the global
location number (GLN) and geographical data.
The technical name of an SCU must be unique in the system. That is
to say, it must not conflict with the technical name of a
location.
Address Data
Business Character
Integration
When a location is created in SAP SCM either manually or by
transfer via the core interface (CIF), the system automatically
creates an SCU with identical general and address data and the
business character planning location.
Conversely, if you create an SCU with the business
characterplanning location, the system automatically creates a
location with identical general and address data.
This relationship is of significance when a location is deleted.
When you delete a location, the system only deletes the business
characterplanning location of the corresponding SCU. If the
SCU has further business characters, it remains in the system with
the same name. To delete the SCU from the system, you must first
delete all other existing business characters.
Warehouse Task
Definition
Document that uses Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) to
execute goods movements. Logical or physical goods movements or
even stock changes can be the basis for a warehouse task. These
include:
Picks
Putaways
Use
You create the warehouse task either with reference to a warehouse
request or without a reference document, for example for internal
goods movements.
The following figure shows the different warehouse tasks for
products and handling units (HUs):
Product Warehouse Tasks [Seite 406]
Handling Unit Warehouse Tasks [Seite 407]
HU WT Handling Unit Warehouse Task
You or the system use product warehouse tasks, for example,
fordeconsolidation [Seite 298] and handling unit warehouse
tasks, for example, forunloading [Seite 608].
You can identify the type of the warehouse task from the warehouse
process type in the warehouse task. For more information about the
simultaneous use of product warehouse tasks and handling unit
warehouse tasks, seePick Point [Seite 410].
EWM also submits hazardous substance texts [Seite 969] in the
warehouse task.
Warehouse Order
Definition
Document that represents an executable work package that a
warehouse employee should perform at a specific time. The warehouse
order consists of warehouse tasks or physical inventory
items.
Use
When you move products, in other words you or Extended Warehouse
Management (EWM) create warehouse tasks, then EWM groups these
warehouse tasks together into warehouse orders, and makes them
available for processing.
When you perform a physical inventory, in other words you create
physical inventory items, EWM also groups these physical inventory
items together into warehouse orders.
You can adjust the scope and type of a warehouse order using the
warehouse order creation rules that you have defined in
Customizing.
For more information about warehouse order creation rules, see
the
Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Cross-Process
Settings →
Warehouse Order → Define Creation Rule for Warehouse
Orders.
Integration
The warehouse groups together warehouse tasks or physical inventory
items.
Example
Warehouse Management Monitor
Use
The warehouse management monitor is a central tool for keeping
warehouse managers constantly up-to-date as to the current
situation in the warehouse, and to enable them to initiate
appropriate responses in light of this situation.
The warehouse management monitor also contains alert monitoring
capabilities, which highlight to warehouse managers actual and
potential problematic situations in the warehouse, and provide
exception handling tools.
Prerequisites
2. Entering the warehouse number and name of the monitor.
3. Choosing Execute.
Node Hierarchy Tree
The node hierarchy tree [Extern] contains all of the
predefined nodes representing different object classes.
The tree is used solely for navigation purposes. You can use the
hierarchy tree to display in the upper view area object information
for a specific node, based on selection criteria.
The warehouse management monitor contains nodes for object classes
relating to the following:
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Processes such as stock and bin, and resource
management [Seite 750]
Alerts such as overdue waves [Seite 769] or
overdue deliveries without goods issue/goods receipt
Drilldown Capabilities
After displaying in the upper view area object information
for a node, you can drill down and display the object information
for its lower-level nodes, via designated pushbuttons.
You can similarly drill down to the lower-level nodes from the
lower view area.
List and Form Views
By default, object information is displayed as a list view
[Extern]. The list view is displayed in an ALV grid, and offers all
standard ALV functionalities, including sorting, filtering and
printing.
You also have the option of toggling to form view [Extern] for
a selected object. The form view provides a focused view of the
object, and provides more detailed information than the list view.
The form view is displayed in an HTML viewer.
Methods
After object information is displayed in either view area,
you can call methods to perform actions on selected objects. For
more information about the available methods, seeMonitor Methods
[Seite 882].
Customizing Options
You can use the standard SAP monitor or you can create your own
monitor in Customizing.
For more information about creating your own monitor, see the
Implementation
Guide (IMG) for EWM under Extended Warehouse Management
→ Monitoring → Warehouse Management Monitor.
If you use the standard SAP monitor, you can tailor it to your
needs by either creating variants for the standard nodes, or
creating new variant nodes, based on the standard nodes.
Creating variants for the standard nodes enables you to use
predefined selection criteria while running a session of the
monitor. The variant-node assignments are lost when you close the
monitor session.
Monitor Basic Operations
Hide a selected node in the hierarchy tree
This operation is invoked by choosing the Hide Node option in
the node’s context menu.
Show hidden nodes This operation is invoked by choosingShow Hidden
Nodes.
After choosing this option, previously hidden nodes are
displayed in the
hierarchy tree, with the icon.
Unhide a selected node in the hierarchy tree
This operation is invoked by choosing theUnhide Node option in
the node’s context menu.
After choosing this option, the node
icon changes to (regular node) or
(variant node).
There are two options from the node’s context menu:
Create Variant Node for Current Level – creates a variant node
directly underneath the original node
Create Variant Node for Category Level – creates a variant
node under the original node, on the same level as the node’s
category
When creating the variant node, you have one of the following
execution options:
Execute – creates only the variant node based on the source
node
Execute with Sub-Tree – creates the variant node, as well as
all of the same lower-level nodes as are contained in the source
node
After creating the variant node, you can create a variant for
selection criteria, as well as assign to it a layout variant.
Delete variant node This operation is invoked by choosing the
Remove Node option in the node’s context menu.
Change variant node text This operation is invoked by choosing the
Rename Node option in the node’s context menu.
Display in list view object information for a node
Expand all nodes in the hierarchy tree
This operation is invoked by choosing
in the top tool bar.
Collapse all nodes in the hierarchy tree
This operation is invoked by choosing
in the top tool bar.
Display object information of a lower-level node in the higher-
level node’s list view
This operation is invoked by selecting a row in the ALV, and
choosing the pushbutton corresponding to the lower-level
node.
Information on the lower-level objects appears in the bottom list
view.
Toggle between list and form views
You call this operation by selecting one or more
rows in the ALV, and choosing from the list view tool bar.
You can toggle back from form view
to list view, by choosing again.
Show display transaction for object
Monitor Methods
Use
The warehouse management monitor methods enable you to manage and
control warehouse objects and processes.
The methods are assigned to object classes, and carried out on
specific objects within the object classes. They are implemented by
utilizing function modules from content providers responsible for
the object classes.
Prerequisites
You have defined object class methods, and their presentation, in
Customizing forExtended Warehouse Management → Monitoring
→ Warehouse Management Monitor → Define Object Class
Methods.
Methods are included in the standard delivery. The methods are
displayed as standard with the accumulated methods menu
buttons.
Activ ities
Description
Change Bin
BIN Storage Bin Enables you to change data of the selected storage
bin (transaction /SCWM/LS02)
Print HU
Reprint HU
Display HU
HU Handling Unit Enables you to display detailed information for an
HU at a work center
PIDIFF Differences-{}-
PIHREF References
PIHSTK Product
Maint. Resource
Enables you to maintain a selected resource [Seite
752] (transaction /SCWM/RSRC)
Logon Resource
Enables you to log on a selected resource to the desktop
environment
Logoff Resource
Enables you to log off a selected resource from the desktop
environment
Send Message
RSRC Resource
Enables you to create and send a message to one or more selected
resources
Assign Queue
Unassign Queue
RSRCG R
Resource Group
Enables you to assign/unassign a queue [Seite 764] to/from
the selected resource group [Seite 754] (transaction
/SCWM/QSEQ)
Simulate WO
Enables you to simulate WO creation for one or more selected WTs,
based on a specified WO creation rule.
If none is specified, the system will attempt to determine one
pursuant to the search sequence for WO creation rules per activity
area.
Display WT Log
Split from WO
Enables you to unassign one or more WTs from a WO, and group them
into a newly-created WO.