Creation of Warehouse Tasks for Putaway 

Use

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) automatically creates warehouse tasks for the putaway based on a warehouse request for an inbound delivery, so that you can put away products.

EWM uses a warehouse task to specify the following for the putaway:

●      The destination storage types, sections, and bins

●      The path to the destination storage type

Prerequisites

If you want EWM to automatically group warehouse tasks into warehouse orders, you must have made the settings in Customizing for warehouse order creation.

In the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM, choose Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order.

Features

●      EWM can create warehouse tasks for an inbound delivery in the following ways:

○       EWM automatically creates warehouse tasks for an inbound delivery, using an action from the Post Processing Framework (PPF).

○       You create the warehouse tasks manually.

●      When EWM creates a warehouse task for a warehouse request, it uses putaway strategies to determine the storage bin. For more information, see Storage Bin Determination for Putaway.

●      When EWM creates a warehouse task, it uses direct or combined storage control  to determine whether you should put away a handling unit directly or by using interim storage bins. The warehouse task reflects the direct or combined storage control.

●      EWM automatically groups warehouse tasks according to your Customizing settings for warehouse orders. For more information, see Warehouse Order Creation.

●      EWM uses layout-oriented and process-oriented storage control, according to your Customizing settings. For more information, see Process-Oriented Storage Control and Layout-Oriented Storage Control.

●      In the warehouse task, EWM specifies various activities for you to perform (for example, deconsolidation), according to your Customizing settings.

Activities

●      If you have made settings in Customizing for PPF for the PPF action to create warehouse tasks for putaway, EWM automatically creates the warehouse task for putaway.

In the IMG for EWM, choose Cross-Process Settings ® Delivery Processing ® Actions ® Use Assistant to Create Actions.

●      If you want to create a warehouse task manually, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Work Scheduling ® Create Warehouse Task for Warehouse Request ® Putaway for Inbound Delivery.

●      If you want to post goods receipts for all deliveries for an inbound delivery, and also want to create warehouse tasks for unloading, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Goods Receipt and Shipping ® Unload.

●      When EWM creates a warehouse request warehouse task for an outbound delivery, it simultaneously updates this warehouse request. EWM carries out this update by updating the quantity in the document flow. If the quantity update leads to a change in status, EWM updates this change in the warehouse request as well.

You have an inbound delivery of 100 pieces of a product. EWM automatically creates three warehouse tasks (WT1, WT2, and WT3) for the entire quantity, based on the storage bin determination.

Following creation of the warehouse tasks, the warehouse request status Putaway Planning changes to Completed.

If EWM does not create warehouse tasks for the entire quantity, the Putaway Planning status is set to Partially Completed.

The following table gives you an overview of the Putaway Planning status in the warehouse request.

Goods Receipt Process Product Description	Delivery Item	Warehouse Task	Warehouse Request Status Putaway Planning
P-01	10	WT1 for 10 pieces	Partially Completed, after EWM creates WT1
P-01	20	WT2 for 30 pieces	Partially Completed, after EWM creates WT2
P-01	30	WT3 for 60 pieces	Completed, after EWM creates WT3