Putaway always occurs into a particular storage location. This means that if a delivery item is relevant for putaway, a storage location must be entered in the delivery.

• The goods are put away in the stock of the storage location that is specified in the delivery.
• If the putaway is carried out using the WM System, the storage location in the delivery determines which storage location in the Warehouse Management System is responsible for putting the goods away.

The item category of the delivery item determines whether the item is relevant for putaway and whether a storage location must be specified. For example, text items are not relevant for putaway, so there is no need to specify a storage location for them. Item category controls can be set in Customizing.

Since the information necessary for specifying a putaway location may not be available when the purchase order is entered, the person responsible for processing purchase orders cannot usually decide into which storage location the goods are to be put away. The storage location for the putaway is specified when the delivery is created.

There are two ways in which the putaway storage location can be specified:

1. It can be determined automatically when the delivery is created and then entered into the delivery item.

2. You can specify it manually in the delivery item.