Replenishment of WM-Managed Storage Locations (SAP Library

Replenishment of WM-Managed Storage Locations

Use

You use this function if your supply storage location is managed using WM and you want to transfer components from these storage locations to the production storage location that is MM based. In this way the KANBAN material is taken to an interim storage location and from there is transferred via the KANBAN control cycle to the supply area.

With this process you initially create a transfer requirement, which will be converted in Warehouse Management into a transfer order. The system does not post the material until the transfer order has been confirmed, that is, after completion of the stock transfer.

Prerequisites

You have entered both a WM-relevant storage location and a KANBAN storage location.

You have created a replenishment strategy with control type 6 for this type of stock transfer (in the standard system, strategy 0006 is used).

If you want to create a transfer order directly in the KANBAN application, you must maintain Direct TO Creation in the replenishment strategy.

If applicable, you have maintained the difference indicator in the replenishment strategy. If the actual quantity does not correspond to the KANBAN quantity in the confirmation, this value determines where to post the difference.

You have created a storage type and storage section in WM Customizing under Master Data and a storage bin in the WM application (in the standard system storage type 150 is used).

In Customizing under Logistics Execution ® Warehouse Management ® Interfaces ® Define Kanban ® Movement Type Assignment to Kanban Supply you have assigned transaction type 350 to the storage type. With this transaction type in WM, the kanban parts are transferred to the interim storage bin.

In Customizing under Logistics Execution ® Warehouse Management ® Interfaces ® Define Kanban ® Stor.Location Control in Warehouse Mgmt you have signed the WM storage type (interface) to the KANBAN storage location and you have also defined the movement type for the transfer posting from the WM storage location to the KANBAN storage location (standard 311).

You have created a material that shows the WM warehouse number and the storage type both in your KANBAN storage location (demand source) as well as in your WM storage location (supply source).
You have created a control cycle for your material that

contains the replenishment strategy mentioned above
contains the WM storage location, the warehouse number mentioned above, the storage type and the storage bin from the WM as the KANBAN interface.

Process Flow

You set a kanban to EMPTY.

The system creates a transfer requirement for the Warehouse Management system with one item per kanban.

Alternatively, the system can also create a transfer order immediately (see prerequisites).

Warehouse Management converts the transfer requirement into a transfer order.

The material will be transferred from the WM storage location via the kanban interface to the supply area, which is set in the control cycle.

Warehouse Management confirms the order.

The system sets the kanban to FULL and posts the goods movement.

Note

You can also set the kanban to FULL first, in which case the system confirms the open transfer order in WM in the background and posts the goods movement.

Note

It is only possible to confirm with a variance to the kanban quantity for a transfer order item – otherwize the the difference cannot be assigned to any transfer order.

The following graphic describes this process:

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text