Kitting at a Work Center with a VAS Order 

Purpose

You can use this process to create a kit with a value-added service order (VAS order). This provides you with the following VAS order options:

●     Working with a special kitting work center

●     Automatic determination of the kitting work center

Documentation about efforts and status tracking for kitting

●     Integrating VAS processing into the delivery

You can use an indicator for the item type of the kit header to make the system generate an item for the kit header in the pick-handling unit (pick-HU). You can print out this HU item in a HU list, display it in the packing transaction, and confirm it to the ERP system.

In EWM, a kitting instruction can exist in one of the following forms:

●     As free text from the SAP Customer Relationship Management sales order that forms the basis for the outbound delivery.

●     As free text that you have created in the warehouse request in EWM.

You can display this text in the work center as additional information.

Prerequisites

You have made all the required settings for kitting in Customizing. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Goods Issue Process ® Make Settings for Kitting.

An outbound delivery with kit items exists in EWM.

You have created a packaging specification for the product of the kit header item as master data, so that you can create a VAS order. This packaging specification must have a level of the level type Kitting. If you are using process-oriented storage control, you must assign the corresponding warehouse process step (such as KIT) of the warehouse process used to the kitting level (see also: Process-Oriented Storage Control).

Note that a packaging specification (and therefore a VAS order) can only have one level of the type Kitting. You can assign a packaging material to the kitting level as a proposal for packing the kit.

If the system is to automatically generate an HU item for the kit header in the pick-HU, set the Create Kit Item indicator in Customizing. For more information about the packing profile, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Goods Issue Process ® Outbound Delivery ® Define EWM-Specific Settings for Item Types.

Process

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       1.      EWM receives an outbound delivery with kit component items from the ERP system.

       2.      Depending on your Customizing settings, either you manually create a VAS order or you have the system create one automatically (see also: VAS Order for the Kit Header Item of the Warehouse Reqeust).

       3.      You generate warehouse tasks for the kit component items in EWM.

       4.      You pick the kit component into a pick-HU and confirm the warehouse tasks. The kit components are then at the kitting work center.

○     If you have set the Create Kit Item indicator in Customizing and are working with pick-HUs, the system generates the kit header item in the pick-HU. You can then use these items in the work center to repack the entire kit into another HU.

○     If you have not set the Create Kit Item indicator in Customizing, you can generate the kit header item in the work center manually.

       5.      You assemble the kit in accordance with the kitting instructions where required.

                            a.      You can display the kitting instruction.

                            b.      You can report the work progress in the VAS order.

       6.      You pack the kit into an HU and generate the HU item for the kit header.

If the ERP system is dependent on an HU item for the confirmation, and you have not set the Create Kit Item indicator in Customizing, then you must generate the item manually after packing the kits in the work center at the latest. If a transfer posting of the stock from the kit components to the kit header takes place in the ERP system when processing the goods issue confirmation from EWM, the ERP system is dependent on this item (see also: Kit to Order).

       7.      You generate an HU warehouse task to transport the HU to the goods issue zone.

       8.      You confirm the HU warehouse task.

       9.      You then post the goods issue for the warehouse request.

If you have set the Create Kit Item indicator, the system uses this HU item in goods issue posting to check whether the packed kits are complete, meaning the system can therefore post these kits for goods issue.

The system only performs this check if the indicator is set in the item type of the kit header.

This process allows you to use the following options:

●     Process-oriented storage control

●     Integrating the VAS order into storage control

●     Creating VAS orders based on a packaging specification

This enables you to provide additional steps in the warehouse process, such as loading.

You can also define your own warehouse process steps for packing kits into an HU, such as in the following instances:

●     If you are not performing this step during kitting, but as an additional step at the same work center.

●     If you are packing the kits into an HU at a different work center after kitting.

The decision as to whether you map additional steps as a step in the warehouse process only, or as a level of the packaging specification as well, depends on whether you want to document this step in the VAS order. The system only generates a VAS activity where you can report effort and consumption of the packaging material if you have mapped this step as a level of the packaging specification.

Result

You can ship the kit.