Staging Area Implementation Using VAS

Use

Currently in Warehouse Management (WM) , stock that has been picked for an outbound document is moved to a dynamic bin, identified by the delivery number, in storage type 916. The place where the stock is placed is referred to as the staging area . When stock is located in the staging area, it is not visible in the system, since the staging area is not a real bin.

Value-Added Services addresses this problem. By defining VAS work centers (each of which has a storage type and bin) to represent the staging areas, the stock will be visible in the work center/staging area until just before it is moved to storage type 916 and goods issue is posted. Furthermore, Value-Added Services can manage the movements from the staging area to storage type 916.

Activities

  1. You define work centers to represent the staging areas.

  2. You create one or more VAS templates .

    • If the relationship between doors and staging areas is 1:1, create one template (containing one work center) for each staging area.

    • For more complex relationships between doors and staging areas, create one template with many work centers. Use Add-In method WORK_CENTER_PRIORITY_CHANGE to determine the work center to be used for the template.

  3. Define conditions and create determination records for your VAS template(s).

  4. When a delivery is created, the system analyzes the determination conditions and determines which template (with work center) applies to which delivery.

  5. The resulting transfer order (TO) is created to the work center.

  6. In order to move stock from the work center to the door, call the confirm VAS order function module and create the TO to storage type 916.

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