Material Staging of Components with WM (SAP Library - Handling Unit Management (LO-HU))

Material Staging of Components with WM

Use

You use this function if you want to carry out material staging of production order components with handling units in conjunction with warehouse management (WM).

The general procedure is as follows: You create a production order and release it. For requirements coverage, WM creates a pick request from which you can create a transfer order. The execution of the transfer order results in the components that are managed in HUs at the storage location, being withdrawn and made available for production. Finally you post the goods issue. Depending on your organizational structure you can either use an outbound delivery or a transfer requirement as a picking document.

For more information, refer to the Warehouse Management component.

Prerequisites

The following conditions must be fulfilled:

The issue storage location must be HU and WM-managed.

The components must not require backflushing.

You have the following controlling options:

In the production scheduling profile (Customizing for Shop Floor Control, under Master data ® Define production scheduling profile) you decide with the GR via delivery indicator, whether the goods issue should be posted via the delivery or the production order.

You can decide how the pick document is created (using outbound delivery or transfer requirement). You make this setting in Customizing, under Logistics Execution ® Warehouse Management ® Interfaces ® Define Production (General area, indicator L). For more information, refer to the Implementation Guide (IMG) under Define Production.

Features

The individual steps vary according to the picking document selected. You can select the following as picking documents:

The outbound delivery (see Material Staging via Outbound Delivery)

If you work with the outbound delivery as the pick request, you can specify that the goods issue is posted automatically when the transfer order is confirmed. You make this setting in Customizing under Logistics Execution ® ?Warehouse Management ® Interfaces ® Shipping Define Shipping Control (Activity Define Shipping Control at the Movement Type Level). In the standard system the movement type 319 (Replenishment for production) is used for replenishment of production. Set the field Copy WM quantity to the value 2 (Copy WM quantity as delivery quantity and post GR/GI) for this movement type.

The transfer requirement (see Material Staging via Transfer Requirement)

See also:

Picking HUs for Production