You use this picking technique when you want to pick the quantities directly from fixed storage bins without using a transfer order.

This technique has the following characteristics:

• The document used to remove the material from the warehouse is a picking list, which is created in the Sales and Delivery (SD) Shipping component.

• The source storage bins for the material are determined by the picking area storage type and storage bin defined in the material master record.

To use this technique, you need to create a fixed storage bin in the picking area (fixed bin storage type) for each material that is to be picked. You assign the fixed storage bin to the material in the material master record field Storage bin.

When you create the delivery document in SD, the information about the location of the material is provided by WM. This information, which includes the warehouse number, the storage type, and the fixed storage bin for the material, is stored in the delivery item.

You can only use this picking technique if you have assigned a fixed storage bin to all materials that are to be picked. You assign this bin in the WM view of the material master record. When you use this picking technique, the material is picked directly from the fixed bin that has been assigned in the material master. For fixed bin picking, WM does not create a transfer order. Therefore, a verification of the pick is not possible when you use this picking technique. The fixed storage bin is also the interim storage bin, that is to say, when you post the goods issue in the SD application component, the quantity picked is cleared directly from the material stock of the fixed bin. The removal of the materials takes place using the picking list that was created in SD.

You should only use this picking technique if you are willing to do without a return verification of the pick.

When you post the goods issue in SD, the fixed storage bin is used simultaneously as an interface between IM and WM.