Manual Assembly of Warehouse Orders 

Use

You use this function in the goods receipt process to delete warehouse tasks of different handling units (HUs) from your warehouse orders, and to group them together in a new warehouse order. This allows you to put away the HUs collectively, and Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) is able to determine the optimal putaway path.

Prerequisites

●      You have made sure that putaway warehouse tasks exist and are active for the entire contents of the HU.

●      If EWM is to generate a single warehouse order for all warehouse tasks that belong to the HUs you have specified, you have made sure that the warehouse activity area and queue for these warehouse tasks are identical (see Warehouse Order Creation).

●      If you want to print warehouse orders using a PPF action, you have scheduled a corresponding PPF action.

Features

This function is optimized so that you can operate it using a hand-held scanner that is installed on a keyboard filter. You can specify multiple HUs in the entry field, one after each other. EWM shows you the specified HU in the lower part of the screen, and assigns the HU to a position field, ascending. For example, you scan three HUs. EWM assigns the HU scanned first to position one, the next HU to position two, and the HU scanned last to position three. Make sure that the position of the HU in EWM matches the physical position of the HU in the resource. When you perform putaway, EWM shows you the position in the Radio Frequency dialog (RF dialog).

A traffic light shows the status of the warehouse task.

●      Green means that you have specified a valid HU, and that warehouse tasks exist for all products in the HU. EWM has updated screen content for the total weight and total volume, and increased the number of HUs in the new warehouse order that is to be created by one.

●      Red means that you have specified an HU, but that no warehouse task exists for at least one of the products in the HU. EWM does not update the screen content for the total weight and total volume, and does not include the HU in the new warehouse order that is to be created.

Activities

●      On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Execution ® Manually Assemble Warehouse Orders.

●      After you have specified all the HUs, choose Save. In doing this, EWM deletes all warehouse tasks of the HUs from your warehouse orders. EWM attempts to generate a warehouse order for all warehouse tasks, and saves the warehouse tasks in this order.

EWM displays a success message if appropriate. If EWM generates one warehouse order only, you can take the warehouse order number directly from the message. If EWM generates multiple warehouse orders, the message only contains the number of warehouse orders. In this case, you can get the warehouse order number from the log.

EWM updates the screen content.

●      You can print the warehouse order in one of the following ways:

○       Using a Post Processing Framework action

○       Manually

Choose Work Center ® Print Last Warehouse Order. Under Create Action, choose the PPF action you require for printing warehouse orders (see Printing Warehouse Orders and Warehouse Tasks).