Yard Management 

Use

You use Yard Management to manage your yards. The yard is where you maintain vehicles and transportation units that arrive or depart.

You map movements within a yard using warehouse tasks (WTs). For more information, see Yard Movement.

You can monitor your yard in the warehouse management monitor.

The following figure shows an example of a yard.

Integration

Yard management is integrated into SAP Global Trade Services (GTS). For more information about GTS, see the SAP Library under SAP xAPPs ® SAP Global Trade Services.

Prerequisites

●     You have activated yard management for the warehouse in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Cross-Process Settings ® Shipping and Receiving ® Yard Management  ® Activate Yard Management for Warehouse.

●     You have made the following settings in Customizing for EWM under Master Data  ® Shipping and Receiving ® Yard Management:

○     You have defined the yard using the storage type.

○     You have defined checkpoints.

○     You have optionally structured the yard using storage sections.

●     You have defined doors in Customizing for EWM under Master Data ® Warehouse Door ® Define Warehouse Door.

●     You have assigned the doors and checkpoints to yard bins. You have also specified a warehouse process type for the checkpoints. These are required by the system for the arrival at and departure from the checkpoint.

To do this, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Master Data ® Shipping and Receiving ® Yard Management ® Assign Warehouse Door to Yard Bin or Assign Checkpoint to Yard Bin and SCU.

See also:

Arrival at/Departure from Checkpoint

Connection of Delivery Processing to Yard Management