Storage Control 

Use

You can use the process-oriented as well as layout-oriented methods for storage control. The goal of storage control is to display your complex putaway or stock removal process steps based on your processes or your layout data. During putaway or stock removal, an individual process step can be executed on single level basis or on multi level basis (that is, through intermediate storage types).

You can combine the process-oriented storage control with the layout-oriented storage control. Here, EWM always executes the process-oriented storage control first. The layout-oriented storage control then checks whether the sequence of putaway process steps is possible in layout view, and if required, adjusts the flow of the putaway or stock removal.

Based on the process-oriented storage control, EWM determined the following putaway process flow:

●        Unloading at door

●        Counting at counting station

●        Checking the quality

●        Executing value-added services

●        Putaway in high rack storage area

The layout-oriented storage control determines that a direct putaway in the high rack storage area is not possible and that the putaway must occur with the use of an identification point.

●        Unloading at door

●        Counting at counting station

●        Identification of goods at the ID point

●        Putaway in high rack storage area

Integration

Extended Warehouse Managment (EWM) uses the delivery to determine, via delivery type and delivery item among others, the warehouse process type. This contains the procedure, in other words, the putaway or stock removal process with different activities. EWM transfers this operation to the handling unit to be put away or removed from stock. The handling unit thus contains the information concerning what process steps are required for the putaway or stock removal.

Prerequisites

You have defined the following in Customizing for the putaway:

●      Paramaters that specify the work station determination for the next function (for example, counting) within the goods receipt process

The following parameters are possible:

○       Source storage type

○       Destination activity area or destination storage type

○       Warehouse process type

○       Handling unit type

●      Determination of the warehouse process type, using the delivery type and delivery item type, among others.

Features

For information about the features of storage control, see Process-Oriented Storage Control and Layout-Oriented Storage Control.