Material Staging for Production Supply 

Use

You can support material staging tasks for production supply using the decentralized Warehouse Management system (WMS). You request the required material in production and thus initiate the material staging from the decentralized warehouse. The decentralized warehouse is then responsible for staging the required materials and supplying them to production.

Integration

Using the production order, the central Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system creates an outbound delivery. On the basis of this outbound delivery, the system can pick the material required for production from the warehouse and stage it for production supply by creating one or several transfer orders for each outbound delivery.

Prerequisites

The master data of the ERP system has been 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 as consignee and customer 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.

Features

The decentralized Warehouse Management system supports two types of staging for production supply:

You support material staging for production from your decentralized warehouse for a production storage location that is not managed by this decentralized warehouse.

You support material staging for a production storage location that is managed by the decentralized warehouse.

The WM-PP interface, which you can use in the integrated SAP system for production supply, is not supported for decentralized warehouse management.