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 Process Flow for Stock Transport Orders

Purpose

Transportation cross-docking for this process is similar to the Process Flow for Sales Orders , except that SAP CRM is not involved because the stock transfer is purely internal and does not involve a particular customer.

The following illustration describes this process:

Process Flow

  1. SAP APO triggers replenishments for a warehouse and creates a stock transport order. This stock transport order contains the supplying warehouse as the stock source and the receiving warehouse as the final location.

  2. The ERP system (SAP ECC) creates checked replenishment outbound delivery and sends it to the supplying warehouse’s EWM (Extended Warehouse Management) system. The planned receipt into the receiving warehouse is visible in the planning system, but it will only be reconciled after the actual goods receipt into that location.

  3. The EWM system performs a new route determination for the outbound delivery and decides whether additional cross-docking steps are needed. It sends this information to the ERP system during goods issue for this delivery.

  4. If the EWM system or a BAdI in the ERP system decides that the goods are to be shipped through a cross-docking location, goods issue is posted into “stock in transfer” (instead of “stock in transit,” as it would be if the next location were the final location). The ERP system now treats the outbound delivery as a stock transfer delivery instead of a normal replenishment delivery.

  5. The ERP system automatically creates a pair of cross-docking inbound and outbound delivery documents from the replenishment outbound delivery and sends them to the EWM system that administers the intermediate cross-docking warehouse.

    Note Note

    The delivery documents are always created as a pair: an outbound delivery document automatically triggers the creating of an inbound delivery document for the next stop along the transportation route.

    End of the note.

  6. The cross-docking location receives the goods and moves them to the shipping area, posting goods issue as “stock in transit” to the receiving warehouse (if there are no additional cross-docking locations).

  7. When the shipment arrives, the receiving warehouse posts goods receipt, just as it would for a normal stock transfer process.