Generation of Warehouse Request of Outbound Delivery Order Type 

Use

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) uses this function to generate a warehouse request for your goods issue process (outbound delivery request).

Integration

When you generate a warehouse request of the type outbound delivery order, you can automatically generate value-added service orders (VAS orders) for the warehouse request item.

When you generate a warehouse request of the type outbound delivery order, EWM can perform route determination in accordance with your Customizing.

Prerequisites

The warehouse process type in the warehouse request must be defined.

For more information about defining and determining the warehouse process type, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) under Extended Warehouse Management ® Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Task ® Define Warehouse Process Type and Determine Warehouse Process Type.

Features

The common functions that are performed automatically for both the inbound delivery and the outbound delivery order when a warehouse request is generated or changed (both inbound and outbound) enable you to do the following:

●      Automatic packing

EWM automatically creates handling units in accordance with the packing instruction. It uses the condition technique to do this. You can assign handling units and cross-delivery handling units to an outbound delivery order. SAP ERP copies this information to the corresponding SAP ERP outbound delivery.

●      Connection to SAP Business Information Warehouse

When a delivery item has been completed in EWM, EWM sends the current data to SAP Business Information Warehouse. As a prerequisite, you must have activated the update of delivery items in SAP Business Information Warehouse.

For more information, see the IMG for SAP SCM under Extended Warehouse Management ® Interfaces ® SAP Business Information Warehouse ® General Settings ® Activate BW Update.

The additional functions that are performed automatically for the outbound delivery order when a warehouse request is generated or changed enable you to do the following:

●      Rough determination of the picking location

The system determines the source storage bins for a delivery based on the stock removal strategies. However, it does not make quantity reservations for the products. You can use the activity area that is assigned to the storage bin as a selection criterion.

A delivery contains three delivery items of 10 tires each. The system determines the same source storage bin for each delivery item. It contains 10 tires only. Therefore, the total quantity of 30 tires does not exist at the source storage bin. For fixed storage bins, the system organizes the total quantity using replenishment strategies.

For more information about Customizing for stock removal strategies, see the IMG for SAP SCM under Extended Warehouse Management ® Goods Issue Process ® Strategies.

●      Determination of which products can be packed together for a shipment

●      Determination of staging area

●      Determination of door assignment

●      Determination of warehouse process type

For more information, see the IMG for SAP SCM under Extended Warehouse Management ® Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Task ® Determine Warehouse Process Type.

●      Route determination

●      Determination of staging area group

●      Adding packaging items

If, for example, you use recyclable packing materials, you can manually add delivery items for the packing material to an outbound delivery order and then post goods issue again for this packing material (see also Processing of Packaging Items).

On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Delivery Processing ®Maintain Outbound Delivery Order. Select an outbound delivery order, and on the Items tab page, choose  Create. Use the input help to select a packaging item type.

●      You can control processes for outbound delivery orders as part of the configuration. For example, you can create an invoice before goods issue in the outbound delivery process. You can also do this on the basis of other delivery parameters, for example, the export relevance or the route that is determined. As a prerequisite, you have defined process profiles for the delivery document header and for the delivery document items in Customizing for EWM. For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Cross-Process Settings ® Delivery Processing ® Process Management and Control.

●      You can enter the account assignment on the user interface for the outbound delivery order in the detail view of the item on the Account Assignments tab page.

A department within your company requests consumable material from your warehouse. Inventory management is no longer required for this consumable material. You update the consumable material, for example, for a cost center or project, by entering the account assignment on the user interface for the outbound delivery order.

Activities

●      At the same time as generating the outbound delivery, SAP ERP sends a message for an outbound delivery request or posting change request to EWM.

●      EWM automatically generates a warehouse request using the Post Processing Framework (PPF).

●      During the automatic creation and saving of the warehouse request, EWM triggers the following:

○       Mapping of delivery data from SAP ERP to the EWM delivery data

○       Data enrichment using data from the functions described under Features

○       Wave assignment, depending on your Customizing

○       Determination of warehouse process type, which controls the processing of a warehouse task in EWM, such as whether EWM is to immediately confirm a warehouse task

●      EWM creates the warehouse tasks at the same time as releasing the wave. In accordance with the warehouse tasks, EWM creates warehouse orders to put together work packages for the individual warehouse employees.

For more information, see Warehouse Order Creation and Creation of Warehouse Tasks for Warehouse Request.

●      EWM copies most of the settings that you make in Customizing for process control to the delivery documents and displays them on the user interface for the outbound delivery order. To do this, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Delivery Processing ® Outbound Delivery ® Maintain Outbound Delivery Order. Display an outbound delivery order in the form view.  Here you can find the settings from Customizing, for example, in the Corr.Deliv., Scrapping, or Pickup fields.