Kitting During Picking Without a VAS Order 

Purpose

You can use this process in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) to create a kit during picking. This process is suitable for the following cases:

●     You do not require detailed documentation of the kitting procedure in EWM.

●     You assemble the kits during picking, that is, you do not perform kitting at special work centers.

You can only find information about kitting in the information for the kit in the outbound delivery and in the kitting instruction that may exist in the form of free text for the warehouse request item of the kit header.

You can use an indicator for the item type of the kit header to make the system generate an item for the kit header in the pick-handling unit (pick-HU). You can print out this HU item in an HU list, display it in the packing transaction, and confirm it to the ERP system.

In EWM, a kitting instruction can exist in one of the following forms:

●     As free text from the SAP Customer Relationship Management sales order that forms the basis for the outbound delivery.

●     As free text that you have created in the warehouse request in EWM.

You can display this text in the work center as additional information.

Prerequisites

You have made all the required settings for kitting in Customizing. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under Goods Issue Process ® Make Settings for Kitting.

An outbound delivery with kit items exists in EWM.

If the system is to automatically generate an HU item for the kit header in the pick-HU, set the Create Kit Item indicator in Customizing. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Goods Issue Process ® Outbound Delivery ® Define EWM-Specific Settings for Item Types.

If the ERP system is dependent on an HU item for the kit header in the confirmation of goods issue, you must make this setting.

If a transfer posting of the stock from the kit components to the kit header takes place in the ERP system when processing the goods issue confirmation from EWM, the ERP system is dependent on this item (see also: Kit to Order).

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Process

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       1.      EWM receives an outbound delivery with kit component items from the ERP system.

       2.      You generate warehouse tasks for the kit component items.

       3.      You pick the kit components and assemble the kit, where required in accordance with the kitting instruction.

       4.      You confirm the warehouse tasks.

If you have set the Create Kit Item indicator in Customizing and are working with pick-HUs, the system generates the kit header item in the pick-HU. You can then repack these items into other HUs in the work center.

       5.      You then post the goods issue for the warehouse request.

If you have set the Create Kit Item indicator, the system uses this HU item in goods issue posting to check whether the packed kits are complete, and therefore whether the system can post goods issue for these kits.

The system only performs this check if the indicator is set in the item type of the kit header.

Results

You can ship the kit.