Use

You are implementing the decentralized Warehouse Management System (WMS) as an independent system that is responsible for your warehouse management and thus also for all your goods movements, irrespective of the use of a central Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP).

Integration

If you have decentralized Warehouse Management, all your business transactions, including inventory management of quantities, are executed in the ERP system, while all the processes required for the physical and logical goods movements run in the decentralized WMS.

The leading ERP system communicates planned goods movements to the decentralized Warehouse Management system (WMS) through deliveries .

Prerequisites

The master data of the ERP system has been transferred to the decentralized WMS via the distribution model in the Customizing section of both systems. In this way you have the basis in the decentralized WMS to be able to process subsequent deliveries from the central ERP system and confirm them. (see also Setting up the Decentralized Warehouse Management System ).

Features

With the decentralized WMS, you can execute goods movements. These include:

Goods receipts are inbound movements of stock that has been received as the result of a purchase order, production order, or for other reasons. All goods receipts cause an increase in the total stock in inventory management and warehouse management. The decentralized WMS has a type of distribution function in that it transfers the received goods from the goods receipt area to suitable storage bins in the warehouse.

In the case off goods issues, the total stock in inventory management and in decentralized warehouse management is reduced by the goods issue posting. The task of the decentralized WMS is to determine the required goods for picking in the individual storage bins in the warehouse and to transfer them to the goods issue area.

If you have stock transfers of materials between two storage locations (plants), the goods are picked from the issuing storage location (plant) and put away in the destination storage location.

Posting changes usually refer to a change in the data of a particular material. In this case, the goods remain at the same storage location, and there is no physical transfer of the goods, for example, a change in the batch number or release of blocked stock.