Goods Receipt: Automatic Determination of the Appointment Length Based on Workload
Use
The system can determine the appointment length depending on the workload if you have maintained the article master data accordingly and made the required settings in Customizing. Various factors can be considered, such as the quantity of goods expected, and the attributes of the unit of measure and of the articles being delivered.
Integration
Workload calculation is also used for calculating picking workloads in Shipping and for rough workload planning in Warehouse Management.
Prerequisites
You have to make the necessary Customizing settings for workload calculations in Customizing for Warehouse Management in the rough workload estimate section so that the system can calculate the time required for processing the additionals.
Subdivisions (operations) of the warehouse process Appointments must be defined for each appointment. The warehouse process category for appointments is defined internally as
In many cases, the workload generated by a goods receipt depends on the unit of measure involved. You can group units of measure together into load categories, and then define the length of operations in the workload table dependent on the unit-of-measure load category.
The logistics handling group represents a group of articles with the same handling considerations (for example, hazardous or fragile goods). You can specify the logistics handling group in the article master.
By defining the length of operations in the workload table dependent on the logistics handling group, you can ensure that the attributes of the articles influence the workload calculation.
The lengths of the operations for the warehouse process category Appointments are stored here. Every operation can have a constant and a variable time portion. In workload calculation the variable portion is multiplied by the goods receipt quantity.
Every operation length specified can be assigned to a unit-of-measure load category and a logistics handling group. This means that you can make different specifications for the length of an operation according to whether the unit of measure or the attributes of the article are considered.
A constant length must be entered in the workload table for operations which do not depend on the individual document items (for example, driving the truck up to the door). Neither a unit-of-measure load category nor a logistics handling group can be specified in the workload table for these operations.