Material Staging Through Change in Storage Location 

Purpose

You use this process if you do not manage your production storage location via the decentralized warehouse, but nonetheless wish to support material staging for production supply through your decentrally managed warehouse. The communication between the central Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP System) and the decentralized Warehouse Management System (WMS) is based on outbound deliveries that are created through stock transfers between storage locations.

Prerequisites

You have defined the production storage location and the storage location of your decentrally managed warehouse in the Customizing application of the company structure.

The master data of the ERP system is transferred to the decentralized WMS using the distribution model. (see also Setting up the Decentralized Warehouse Management System).

At the warehouse number level in the Customizing application, you have stored delivery-relevant data for the warehouse number standard values for production under the path Logistics Execution ® Decentralized WMS Integration ® Central Processing ® Application ® Define Interface to Inventory Management You require this data, which cannot be entered by Inventory Management, to create the outbound deliveries.

Process flow

  1. In the central ERP System, you enter a production order and release it.
  2. In accordance with the stock situation in production, you execute a stock transfer of the required materials. Based upon this stock transfer, the system creates a delivery for a stock transfer.
  3. The delivery for the stock transfer is passed on to the decentralized Warehouse Management System.
  4. The decentralized WMS creates a transfer order for the delivery for the stock transfer.
  5. Using this transfer order, you can pick the required parts. In this way, the transfer order serves as a basis for the actual material staging.
  6. By confirming the transfer order, you inform the system that the material staging activity is completed and that the required parts are at the interface to the production storage location.
  7. With the confirmation of the transfer order, the decentralized WMS automatically reports the delivery for the stock transfer, with the materials that have been actually staged, to the ERP system.
  8. In the central ERP System, this confirmation leads to a storage-location posting change from the decentralized location to the production storage location.