Extended Warehouse Management

Training Session 1Duration ½ Hour

EWM Structure

ERP Warehouse Management

• Part of SAP ERP

• Known as Classical WM

• Features: – Inventory Management exact to Storage Bin Level– Mapping of all goods movements with TO– Simple Putaway– Conventional PI

ERP Warehouse Management

SAP Extended Warehouse Management

• Decentralized WM Solution

• Features: – Inventory Management exact to Storage Bin Level– Mapping of all goods movements with respect to Deliveries– Complex Internal Routing– Value Added Services– Kitting– Packing Execution

SAP Extended Warehouse Management

SAP EWM Deployment Options

• Requires Integration with ERP system for • Master Data• Transactional Data

Organizational Units for EWM

Warehouse Number The organizational unit at the highest level in Warehouse Management.

Represents the warehouse complex. Represented by Four-Character.

Storage Types Group of warehouse bins with similar characteristics• There are different forms where products are physically stored in a warehouse:- various types of racks, any open storages, goods receipt and goods issue areas.- This is represented with storage types as a group of warehouse bins with similar characteristics. Storage types are defined on the basis of their spatial or organizational features.

Organizational Units for EWM

• A storage section is a subdivision of a storage type and represents a group of binsthat generally have some sort of like attribute. • Common used storage sections are fast-moving or slow-moving items or the type of stored

products. • Storage sections are used for determining the putaway storage bin.• On lowest level of organizational structure are storage bins. They are assigned toa storage section (if exist) and a storage type and represent the physical locationor storage space where the products are stored in the warehouse.• Whenever you keep a product in your warehouse, you have to indicate it's exact residence:

the storage bin. The coordinates of the storage bin tell you the precise position in thewarehouse. Storage bins are considered as master data.

• Storage bins - independent of their assignment to a storage type - are logically grouped in activity areas. Per activity, such as picking, putaway or physical inventory, you define an activity area. Activity areas are used do define the bin Sorting. when warehouse orders are created. According the activity , the same storage bin can be assigned to multiple activity areas.• If stock is kept on a storage bin, this quantity is represented as a quant. The quantis therefore the content of a storage bin and is used for inventory managementof a product in a storage bin.