Executing Automatic Route Determination 

Use

Depending on your Customizing settings and various other settings, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) may be able to execute automatic route determination. This means that you do not need to enter a route manually and route determination determines a new route when data is changed.

Prerequisites

You made the settings for route determination.

Features

If either you or the system change one of the following fields in the delivery header or a delivery item in the delivery, EWM automatically executes new route determination:

Delivery Header

●     Changing the route or setting the determination indicator for the route to Initial or Value Determined by System.

●     Changing the means of transport or setting the determination indicator for the means of transport to Initial or Value Determined by System.

●     Change to Delivery Date

●     Changing the final delivery date/time.

●     Changing the warehouse (of the source location).

●     Changing the ship-to party.

●     Changing the final ship-to party.

●     Changing the freight forwarder.

Delivery item

Delivery processing only executes new route determination for those items that are relevant for the route. This means that delivery processing does not execute new route determination for changes to text items, kit items, or items that are not warehouse-relevant.

In addition, delivery processing only executes route determination or new route determination for those items that are not yet assigned to an outbound delivery order.

●     Changing the product.

●     Changing the delivery quantity.

●     Changing the shipping conditions.

●     Changing the weight or volume.

●     Changing the planned goods issue date/time.

●     Creating a new delivery item.

If you release a route in the delivery manually, EWM does not execute new route determination. EWM also does not check the validity of the route. EWM only executes route checking again when you change a route.

If EWM has already scheduled a document for picking, meaning that the status type Picking has a status value in the delivery other than Not Yet Started, EWM does not execute new route determination or set dependent data. It only checks the validity of the route. As soon as you change a route, EWM sets the dependent data once again.