Work Center 

Definition

The work center is a physical unit in the warehouse, in which you can perform warehouse activities such as packing, distribution, or weighing.

Use

You can use the work center in the following processes:

●      Packing

●      Deconsolidation

●      Counting

●      Quality Inspection

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) contains the following transaction types for the work center:

●      Packing - General

This transaction type is for all general repacking transactions.

●      Deconsolidation

This transaction type is for distributing mixed handling units (HUs) into HUs for non-mixed deconsolidation groups.

●      Quality Inspection and Count

This transaction type is for entering count and inspection results, and for confirming inspection results.

●      Packing in the Staging Area

This transaction type is for packing together HUs according to the criterion Stop on Route.

You must assign each work center to a warehouse number, storage type, and storage bin. Note that you can only use storage types that have the storage type role ‘Work Center’ (E), ‘Pick Point’ (B), or ‘Identification and Pick Point’ (C). You can configure more than once work center for each storage type in the system.

You can assign an inbound and outbound section to each work section. For more information about setting up work centers, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Extended Warehouse Management ® Master Data ® Work Center.

Example

The following example shows you various options, for example, on how a work center for deconsolidation can be structured:

Work center 1 represents the deconsolidation work center, which has no inbound section and no outbound section.

Work center 2 represents the deconsolidation work center, which has an outbound section but no inbound section.

Work center 3 represents the deconsolidation work center, which has both an inbound section and an outbound section.

You can also join work centers together into work center groups. This means that you can send individual products or HUs to a work center group, which corresponds to a storage section. In the above example, this would be a warehouse task to storage section 0001.

The system only determines the final storage bin, and thus the work center, when you confirm the warehouse task.