Preprocessing for Deliveries and Physical Inventory  

Use

You use this function to create the workload based on deliveries or physical inventory documents.

Features

Delivery

When creating the workload, the system determines the process steps required to execute a particular delivery item in the warehouse. You specify these steps in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Labor Management ® Set Preprocessing.

Preprocessing calculates the time when the workload is due, based on the duration of the steps of the found process and of the dates/times of the delivery.

You select the data type that you want to use for calculating inbound and outbound deliveries in Customizing for EWM, under Extended Warehouse Management ® Labor Management ® Define Delivery Date/Time for Preprocessing. The dates/times here are always planned and not actual. If you fail to define a date/time, the system always uses the planned delivery date/time for the time calculation.

Physical Inventory

Preprocessing only supports cycle counting within the physical inventory because it takes place periodically, and can therefore be planned. You do not have to make any special settings. The system uses the settings that you have made for the physical inventory.

This differs from physical inventory in only one respect: If an active cycle counting document exists in which you plan cycle counting for a later time, such as for the following day, preprocessing determines that cycle counting is required again in 31 days if the specified planning period stretches that far.

Prerequisites

EWM Customizing

You can make Customizing settings for preprocessing either directly or using a wizard.

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       1.      In Customizing, you have activated Labor Management.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Labor Management ® Activate Labor Management.

       2.      You have defined a preprocessing header and preprocessing items.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Labor Management ® Set Preprocessing.

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Preprocessing Header

In the preprocessing header, you assign a storage process to a delivery item.

You define a separate storage process with the name of the owner for the products for which you have to execute a special value-added service.

You identify the delivery item using the activity area and warehouse process type that the system has found for the delivery item. You can also specify a condition.

Preprocessing Items

The entry found by the system in the preprocessing header is the key for determining preprocessing items that are relevant for the current delivery item. In the preprocessing item, you define the steps for preprocessing in the warehouse that are relevant for delivery item currently being processed.

○       Duration: As a standard process, the system takes the duration of the external process step from Customizing for storage control. You can change this value.

The system uses the duration to determine when a step takes place in the warehouse. As a basis for this, it uses the dates/times of the delivery across the duration of all steps of the found process. You can assign a step to a preprocessing item more than once.

If you define identical steps in Customizing one after another, note that the system uses the Percentage field to check the total of the entries in the field. The total of the percentage values must not exceed 100%, otherwise this would mean additional workload. If another step is positioned between two identical steps, the system considers the identical steps as being independent of each other.

○       You can define either a Percentage or a Condition.

The percentage value tells you the percentage of the current delivery item that is relevant for the found activity area and found process step.

The condition enables you to see in more detail whether a found step is relevant for a delivery item. Here you can make checks based on the attributes of the condition editor. Only when this check has been performed successfully does the system consider the step for the current delivery item in the preprocessing.

EWM System

In the Planning and Data group box of function Planning and Simulation, you have selected an Object Type for the delivery or cycle counting within the physical inventory:

●      K for delivery item

●      F for warehouse order for physical inventory