VAS Order for the Kit Header Item of the Warehouse Request 

Purpose

You can generate value-added service orders (VAS orders) automatically or manually in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), to document and monitor these value-added services.

VAS orders that are generated for a kit header item have a special structure.

Prerequisites

You have made the required settings in Customizing for generating VAS orders automatically or manually. If you want to create a VAS order for kit items in the delivery, make the settings for the item type of the kit header only. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under Cross-Process Settings ® Value-Added Services ® Define Relevance for VAS Order.

An outbound delivery with kit items exists in EWM.

You have defined a packaging specification with a level of type Kitting. Note that a packaging specification (and therefore a VAS order) can only have one level of the type Kitting.

Process

Automatic Generation

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       1.      You receive an outbound delivery with kit items from the ERP system.

       2.      EWM checks whether it is to generate a VAS order for the kit header item automatically, and generates it where appropriate.

       3.      EWM saves the number of the VAS order as a document flow for all kit items of the warehouse request.

       4.      If you have activated the VAS Order status in the status profile of the item type for the warehouse request item, EWM sets the VAS Order status of the kit items to one of the following entries:

○     Generated

If you have defined in Customizing that EWM is to generate the VAS order automatically.

○     Not Relevant

If you have defined in Customizing that EWM is not to generate the VAS order automatically.

Manual Generation

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       1.      You receive an outbound delivery with kit items from the ERP system.

       2.      You create a VAS order for the kit header item manually (see also: Create and Edit VAS Orders).

       3.      EWM creates the VAS order. When you save the VAS order, EWM saves the number of the VAS order as a document flow for all kit items of the warehouse request.

       4.      If you have activated the VAS Order status in the status profile of the item type for the warehouse request item, EWM sets the VAS Order status of the kit items to Generated.

Result

The system has created a VAS order for the kit header. You can use this VAS order for confirming services in the process Kitting at a Work Center with a VAS Order.

When you edit the VAS order, EWM changes the VAS Order status of the warehouse request item (see also: Updating the Warehouse Request Using the VAS Order).

The VAS order for the kit header has the following special features. For example, you have defined a packaging specification with the levels Oiling, Kitting, and Packing. The VAS order for the kit header has the following special features:

●     All activities prior to the kitting activity (such as oiling) and the kitting activity itself have kit component items of the delivery as their items. This is based on the assumption that you perform all activities prior to assembling the kits and the kitting activity itself in the kit components.

●     All activities after the kitting activity (such as packing) have the kit header item as their item. This is based on the assumption that you perform all activities after assembling the kits in the kit itself.