Warehouse Request
Definition
The warehouse request is a document that enables the processing of warehouse activities for a specific product. The warehouse activities for a product include the following:
Picking
Putaway
Posting change
Stock transfer (within warehouse)
Scrapping
The following types of warehouse requests exist:
In addition to these working documents, the following predecessor documents exist:
Use
You use this document in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) to:
Process specific product quantities within a warehouse for your goods receipt process or goods issue process (for example, for putaway or picking).
Create posting changes
Process internal goods movements
Process scrappings
EWM uses warehouse requests to form waves . EWM works with both inactive and active document versions .
It creates warehouse tasks to fulfill the warehouse request.
You can create, process, delete, or archive warehouse requests .
Structure
A warehouse request consists of
Document categories with different document types. You can define the document types in Customizing for delivery processing. For more information about the paths in the Implementation Guide (IMG), see Menu Paths and Customizing Paths for Delivery Processing .
Item categories with different item types. You can define the item types in Customizing for delivery processing. For more information about the paths in the Implementation Guide (IMG), see Menu Paths and Customizing Paths for Delivery Processing .
Services that EWM can use. These include:
For more information about the structure, see Documents in Delivery Processing .
Integration
Systems outside of
EWM
send messages for a warehouse request to
EWM
. For a goods receipt process, this is an SAP ERP system. For a goods issue process, this is a sales order system.
Note
For more information about Customizing for integration between SAP ERP and EWM, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for
Supply Chain Management
under
Extended Warehouse Management
Interfaces
ERP Integration.
