Ad Hoc Movement 

Use

Ad hoc movements are unplanned goods movements that you create manually within a warehouse. This means that the decision to make an ad hoc movement is not controlled by the system. Instead, it is triggered manually. Ad hoc movements do not have a preceding document. An ad hoc movement may be necessary for the following reasons:

●     The wrong product is located in the storage bin.

●     You have to take the product to another storage bin due to damage, for example for a quality inspection.

●     You want to take a product to the appropriate storage bin for scrapping.

●     You have to empty an aisle or storage bin for safety reasons.

●     You want to perform unplanned rearrangement movements.

●     You have to clear away stock lying around in the warehouse.

Prerequisites

●     Stock is available for the product to be moved.

●     You have defined a warehouse process type in Customizing for EWM under Cross-Process Settings  ® Warehouse Task ® Define Warehouse Process Type.

●     If you do not enter a source or destination storage bin for ad hoc movement and want the system to determine this automatically, you can control this using stock removal and putaway strategies.   For more information about prerequisites, see Putaway and Stock Removal Strategies.

Features

In an ad hoc movement, you move the stock of products from one storage bin to another. To be able to reproduce these movements, you manually create a product warehouse task (product WT) or a handling unit warehouse task (HU WT). If you work with HUs, you can also unpack or repack the products belonging to an HU by creating a product WT in the HU WT.

The following table shows the significant data for manually creating product WTs and HU WTs:

Product WT	HU WT
The system uses the product and source storage data from the stock overview that you have displayed by entering selection criteria. If you do not want the product to be removed from a specific storage bin, you can control the determination of the source storage data using stock removal strategies.	The system takes the HUs and source storage data from the overview.
Warehouse process type	Warehouse process type
Destination storage data (optional)	Destination storage data (optional)
Reason (optional)	Reason (optional)
Source quantity	­–

You can manually overwrite the values determined by the system. For the values entered manually, the system checks if they match the configuration of the storage type, storage section, and storage bin in question, for example, if mixed storage or receipts are allowed.

Immediate confirmation of the WTs is optional. Depending on the warehouse process type, you can confirm WTs directly after they have been created. While a WT is still open, in other words, until you have confirmed it, the assigned product quantity is not available at the source storage bin nor at the destination storage bin, but belongs to reserved stock. After you have confirmed a WT you can no longer delete it. You can, however, cancel it.

Radio Frequency Environment

In a radio frequency environment, you can also perform ad hoc movements for products and HUs. For more information, see Ad Hoc Movements Using Radio Frequency.

Actions

To create a product WT, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Work Scheduling  ® Create Warehouse Task Without Reference  ® Move Product.

To create an HU WT, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Work Scheduling  ® Create Warehouse Task Without Reference  ® Move Handling Unit.