Warehouse Controlling  

The Warehouse Management (WM) application is integrated with the SAP Logistics Information System (LIS) to support the analysis of the physical flow of quantities and workload in the warehouse. Warehouse Controlling evaluates and reduces the extensive information from Warehouse Management to a few essential performance measurements, thus allowing an analysis of weak areas with the aid of graphics. The evaluations for Warehouse Controlling are integrated with the Inventory Controlling menu as standard analyses. These analyses are based on statistical databases in the Warehouse Controlling module – called "information structures" – into which important, up-to-date performance measures are written directly from the warehousing applications. This data can be used for performance planning purposes.

The data on which all five standard analyses for Warehouse Controlling are based form data that are updated to the information structures S090 and S091.

The following five standard analyses for Warehouse Management exist in Inventory Controlling:

For this analysis, the system displays the total weight and quantities of goods that were putaway, picked or returned.

This analysis displays the quantities and weights that moved in the warehouse. It also includes information about frequency and the average time expired between transfer requirement or delivery creation and transfer order creation.

This analysis is based on the putaway and picking of a specific material or range of materials and includes quantity and weight information for a given time period.

Quantity, weight and time required for material movements are considered in this analysis.

This analysis is based on movement type and the types of storage areas into or from which stock is placed or removed.

The following table provides an overview of events that are updated by the information structures S090 and S091 once the update has been activated.

Overview of Events

Event

information structure

Goods movements/Inventory Management

(external quantities)

Stock placements or removals

S090

Create transfer order

(Stock placements, removals, return transfers)

transferred quantity

S090

 

S091

Confirm transfer order

(Confirm real and unreal differences)

S091

 

Only physical movements are taken into consideration, that is, there are no inventory adjustment postings or posting changes.

Activating the Update

Using the customizing task, you activate the update of the two information structures S090 and S091 in Inventory Controlling. If the V1 update is selected, the document is posted with the original documents, if V2 is selected the update takes place at a later time. If you use Multiple Processing, then you should use only the V2 update.