staging area

Credit Management (SD-BF-CM)

Organizational unit on a hierarchial level below a warehouse.

Staging areas are used for the intermediate storage of goods in the warehouse. They are near the relevant doors. Each staging area can be defined for more than one purpose:

Goods receipt

for the temporary storage of unloaded goods until they are physically received

Goods issue

for the temporary storage of picked goods until they are physically loaded

Distributor-Reseller-Management (IS-HT-DRM)

All data transmitted by distributor/ reseller to manufacturer/ supplier by means of EDI lands in the staging area. Here, the items can be worked upon to correct any transmission errors. When the item, say a sales return information, is released from the staging area, it updates the DRM system.