You can use consolidation groups in the outbound process to determine which delivery items can or cannot be picked or packed together into a handling unit (HU).
The use of consolidation groups is determined by the setting of the Packing Consolidation
checkbox of the outbound delivery item, which the system takes over from the Order Combination
checkbox of the outbound delivery in SAP ERP.
If you use Outbound Processing: Transportation Planning in TM-ERP-EWM
or Outbound Processing: Transportation Planning in EWM-ERP-TM
, do not use cross delivery HUs in this process. Either leave the Order Combination
checkbox of the outbound delivery empty in SAP ERP, or create a Business Add-In (BAdI) implementation for BAdI Determine Consolidation Group
(/SCWM/EX_CORE_CONS
), which prohibits the packing consolidation in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM). For more information, see Outbound Processing: Transportation Planning in TM-ERP-EWM and Outbound Processing: Transportation Planning in EWM-ERP-TM.
You have made the following settings in Customizing for SAP EWM:
You have defined if you want to work with consolidation groups in the outbound process of your warehouse and if so, what attributes influence the creation of the consolidation group per outbound delivery item. The attributes that the creation of the consolidation group can depend on are the following:
Warehouse number
Route
Ship-to party
Priority of the delivery item
For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management
under .
You have defined number ranges for your consolidation groups and assigned them to the different use cases of consolidation groups.
For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management
under the following:
In the Customizing of the work center, you have defined on which of the following levels you want to check the consolidation group during packing.
Check while repacking products
Check while repacking handling units (HUs) and products
No check
For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management
under .
During the creation of outbound deliveries, the system determines the consolidation group for each delivery item. Depending on the setting of the Packing Consolidation
checkbox, the system determines the consolidation group in the following way:
If the checkbox is selected, the system tries to find an existing consolidation group from the Maintain Consolidation Group
transaction.
If there is no appropriate consolidation group yet, the system creates a new one and adds it to the Maintain Consolidation Group
transaction for later reuse.
If the checkbox is not selected, the system creates a new consolidation group but does not add it to the Maintain Consolidation Group
transaction. Therefore, the new consolidation group cannot be reused.
After determining the consolidation group for the outbound delivery item, the system transfers it to the corresponding warehouse tasks.
Depending on the setup of the warehouse order creation rule (for example, on the setting of the value limit), it is possible to group only warehouse tasks with the same consolidation groups into one warehouse order or to group warehouse tasks with different consolidation groups into one warehouse order. If you use more than one planned pick-HU within your warehouse order, it is possible to assign warehouse tasks with the same consolidation group to the same pick-HU, while the corresponding warehouse order can carry warehouse tasks with different consolidation groups. For more information, see Warehouse Order Creation.
After the confirmation of a warehouse task into the pick HU, the system assigns the consolidation group to the stock. In case of mixed stock in one pick HU with different consolidation groups, you can execute a repacking at a packing station to consolidate the stock in terms of packing together only stock with the same consolidation group into one HU.
After the confirmation of a warehouse task into a consolidation group unique HU, the HU carries the information about the consolidation group as well.
Transportation integration offers you the following features:
When you change the door and the SAP EWM processing has not yet started, the system can redetermine the consolidation group with the new door.
To use this feature, you have to maintain a separate consolidation group per door. To do so, on the SAP Easy Access
screen, choose .
When you or the system change the transportation unit (TU) assignment of a delivery and the SAP EWM processing has not yet started, the system can redetermine the consolidation group with the new data.
To use this feature, you have to maintain a separate consolidation group for each TU. For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management
under .
You have to decide if you want to use consolidation groups in the outbound process.
During picking processes, the system checks whether the picking of warehouse tasks with different consolidation groups into a pick HU is allowed or not.
During processes of repacking stock or HUs with consolidation groups, the system checks whether they are allowed or not.
To start the Maintain Consolidation Group
transaction, on the SAP Easy Access
screen, choose
In Customizing for SAP EWM, you have activated the consolidation group determination for the warehouse number, the ship-to party, the route, and the priority. In SAP ERP, you have selected the Order Combination
checkbox in the outbound delivery. You have created two outbound deliveries in the system within the same warehouse, for the same ship-to party, on the same route, and with the same priority. Since the Packing Consolidation
is selected, SAP EWM assigns all the items of both deliveries to the same consolidation group. Therefore, all the warehouse tasks created for all those line items belong to the same consolidation group. Since all the warehouse tasks have the same consolidation group, you can pick and pack the requested stock into one HU.
In Customizing for SAP EWM, you have activated the consolidation group determination for the warehouse number, the ship-to party, the route, and the priority. In SAP ERP, you have not selected the Order Combination
checkbox in the outbound delivery. You have created two outbound deliveries in the system within the same warehouse, for the same ship-to party, on the same route, and with the same priority. Since the Packing Consolidation
is not selected, SAP EWM assigns the two deliveries to unique consolidation groups. Therefore, the items within one delivery belong to the same consolidation group but the items of the other delivery have a different consolidation group. This means that you cannot mix the requested stock for the two deliveries into one HU. You can pick and pack only the items of one delivery together.