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Purpose

Putaway enables you to display your complex putaway process steps and includes the following functions:

      Unloading

      Counting

      Deconsolidation

      Final Putaway

It takes into account your warehouse arrangement (for example, putaway using identification points in a high rack storage area) as well as the process-oriented rules and process flows defined by you (for example, counting requests, repacking). Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) contains putaway strategies  to simplify the search for appropriate storage bins.

You can put away your products directly or through storage control.

You can only execute complex putaway processes by using handling units.

Prerequisites

      You have defined the following basic settings in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM):

Basic settings are, for example:

IMG Activity

Path in Implementation Guide (IMG)

Storage types, storage area, storage bins

IMG for EWM under Master Data

® Define Storage Type

® Define Storage Section

® Storage Bins

Activity Areas

IMG for EWM under Master Data ® Activity Areas ® Define Activity Areas

Activities

IMG for EWM under Master Data ® Activity Areas ® Activities ® Define Activity Areas

if required, work centers, for example, for deconsolidation

For more information about defining putaway steps, see the IMG for EWM under Master Data ® Work Center ® Define Work Center.

Doors

IMG for EWM under Master Data ® Warehouse Door ® Define Warehouse Door

Staging areas

IMG for EWM under Goods Issue Process ® Define Staging Areas

      You have displayed your putaway steps in the system.

For more information about defining putaway steps, see the IMG for EWM under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Task ® Layout-Oriented Storage Control or Process-Oriented Storage Control.

      All required processes are fully integrated. The system updates, for example, the inbound delivery in the warehouse activities.

Process

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       1.      The process begins when SAP R/3 receives an advanced shipping notification from an external system (for example, SAP CRM) for a planned inbound delivery.

       2.      The ERP system uses this advanced shipping notification to create an inbound delivery, and distributes it to EWM.

       3.      EWM uses the data from this inbound delivery to create a warehouse request.

This warehouse request is the starting point for the putaway process.

If you reject the inbound delivery in EWM, EWM sets the planned delivery quantity to zero and notifies the ERP system. EWM ends the inbound delivery and sets the status of the warehouse request to Completed.

Note

For more information, see Warehouse Request of the Returns Type.

Result

EWM uses the warehouse request to create one or more warehouse tasks for the putaway (putaway WT). You can use it to put away the products.

 

 

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