Stock Determination in the Decentralized Warehouse Management Sy (SAP Library - Decentralized Warehouse Management (LE-IDW))

Stock Determination in the Decentralized Warehouse Management System

Use

In the decentralized WMS, the stock determination feature enables you to determine goods stocks of different stock categories during transfer order creation. In this way, you can search in your warehouse both for company stock as well as for consignment stock.

You can implement stock determination in decentralized WMS for the following stock types:

Company’s own stock
Vendor consignment stock (K)

Prerequisites

To be able to work with the stock determination function, execute the following settings:

In the Customizing section for Materials Management in the ERP system, select the path Inventory Management and Physical Inventory ® Stock determination ® Define Strategy for Stock Determination, and define a cross-application strategy for stock determination according to which the system should look for (and pick) stocks. You determine each strategy at the plant level using a stock determination group and a stock determination rule. Refer also to the section Creating Stock Determination Strategies.

You assign a stock determination group to the respective material in the material master record.

In the Customizing section, choose the path Materials Management, then Inventory Management and Physical Inventory ® Stock determination ® Assign Stock Determination Rule in Applications ® Warehouse Management, and assign the stock determination rule to the application Warehouse Management in decentralized WMS.

To be able to use the stock determination function in decentralized WMS, set the option 1 WM dominant for the indicator Other settings ® WM processing in the stock determination strategy.

Features

If you are using the stock determination function in decentralized WMS, the WMS combines the pick sequence determined by the stock determination strategy with your own pick strategies as follows: The system searches for stock of the required material using the storage type search and the pick strategy defined for the respective storage type, and it includes company-owned stock as well as consignment stock in this search.

If you wish to have the FIFO principle used for picking in a particular storage type, and the oldest quant in the storage type is consignment stock, the system will pick this consignment stock.