Putaway Status 

You can determine to what extent putaway has been carried out for a delivery from the putaway status. The putaway status is stored in each item in the delivery.

In the standard version of the SAP system, the following indicators are defined for the putaway status:

Standard Putaway Status Indicators

Indicator	Significance
Blank	The item is not relevant for putaway
A	Putaway has not been started yet
B	The item has been partially put away
C	The item has been completely put away

A delivery item is regarded as partially put away if the quantity that was put away is smaller than the delivery quantity.

Putaway Status on the Delivery Item Level

You will find the putaway status on the Putaway item details screen. To call up this screen, select the item whose status you want to display on the delivery overview screen. Then choose Goto ® Item ® Putaway. You will find the status indicator in the PutawyStatus field.

If a delivery item was put away in the Warehouse Management System WM, the processing status of the item in the WM System is also shown on the screen.

Putaway Status in the Overview

The putaway status of each delivery item is shown in the status overview. To call up this overview screen, choose Status overview in a delivery. The overall status of the putaway can be found in the OvrPtawySt column.

Putaway Status and Goods Receipt

You can only post goods receipt for a delivery once all items relevant for putaway have been completely put away.

Therefore, the delivery cannot be put away in the system if the putaway quantity that was reported to the warehouse is smaller than the delivery quantity. In this case, you must decide whether to reduce the delivery quantity and post goods receipt immediately or whether to carry out putaway again to determine if the entire quantity can be made available for the warehouse.

Putaway Status and Decentralized Warehouse Management

If you implement decentralized Warehouse Management, the individual delivery items are not relevant for putaway in the central system.  As described in goods receipt, the delivery is reported to the decentralized system. Putaway occurs in the decentralized system. Following the putaway step, the delivery is reported back to the central system, where goods receipt is posted.

If the item category is marked as relevant for putaway, the process of distributing it to the decentralized system automatically sets the item to not relevant for putaway, since putaway takes place in the decentralized system.