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 Specification of the Putaway Path

Use

You can use this function to specify a putaway path for each activity in the activity area. When Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) creates a warehouse request (WT), it specifies this putaway path. During definition of putaway paths, you can assign more than one putaway path, or you can allow activity areas to overlap. However, only one putaway path is active for each WT.

Integration

Specification of the putaway path is integrated into WT processing, which means that EWM sorts the WTs according to the putaway path.

Prerequisites

  • You have defined the storage bin types, descriptions, and structure.

    For more information, refer to the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Storage Bins End of the navigation path .

  • You have defined activity areas and categories, have assigned storage bins to the activity areas, and have specified the sorting sequence of the activity areas.

    For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Activity Areas End of the navigation path .

  • You have assigned an activity to a warehouse process type.

    For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Start of the navigation path Cross-Process Settings Next navigation step Warehouse Task Next navigation step Define Warehouse Process Type End of the navigation path .

Features

If EWM has grouped several WTs into a warehouse order, then it sorts the WTs based on the warehouse order. This is not dependent on the product that is contained in the handling unit.

If you use radio frequency devices, you can skip a destination storage bin proposed by EWM. EWM places this destination storage bin at the end of the RF display.

Example Example

You cannot gain access to a destination storage bin because a colleague is currently putting away products in it. You skip the destination storage bin proposed by EWM and process the next one.

End of the example.

Activities

For your putaway, you or EWM create the necessary WTs for the warehouse request of the outbound delivery. In so doing, EWM determines the putaway path according to your settings in Customizing and saves this information in the WT. On the radio frequency device, EWM shows the destination storage bins in this predefined sequence.

Example

The following figure shows you an example of specification of the putaway path, based on a warehouse order.

EWM has created a warehouse order that contains WTs. It has created a WT for each handling unit item.

EWM creates the following putaway path:

Document Item

Handling Unit

1

1

2

2

3

1

4

2

5

3

…

…

Therefore, if you simultaneously put away several HUs, EWM sorts these across the warehouse.