Stock Removal Path Determination 

Use

You can use this function to specify a stock removal path for each activity in the activity area. When Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) creates a warehouse request (WT), it specifies this stock removal path. During definition of stock removal paths, you can assign more than one stock removal path, or you can allow activity areas to overlap. However, only one stock removal path is active for each WT.

Integration

Specification of the stock removal path is integrated into WT processing, which means that EWM sorts the WTs according to the stock removal path.

Prerequisites

●      You have defined the storage bin types, descriptions, and structure.

For more information, refer to the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Master Data ® Storage Bins.

●      You have defined activity areas and categories, have assigned storage bins to the activity areas, and have specified the sorting sequence of the activity areas.

For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Master Data ® Activity Areas.

●      You have assigned an activity to a warehouse process type.

For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Task ® Define Warehouse Process Type.

Features

If EWM has grouped several WTs into a warehouse order, then it sorts the WTs based on the warehouse order. This is regardless of which products or HUs are on the storage bins.

If you use radio frequency devices, you can skip a source storage bin proposed by EWM. EWM places this source storage bin at the end of the RF display.

You cannot gain access to a source storage bin because a colleague is currently removing products from it. You skip the source storage bin proposed by EWM and process the next one.

Activities

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For your stock removal, you or EWM create the necessary WTs for the warehouse request for the outbound delivery order. In so doing, EWM determines the stock removal path according to your settings in Customizing and saves this information in the WT. On the radio frequency device, EWM shows the destination storage bins in this predefined sequence.