Warehouse Order Creation 

Use

This function groups together warehouse tasks into warehouse orders, according to your settings in Customizing for warehouse orders, and thus creates optimum work packages for you. For warehouse order creation, you define rules with their relevant criteria. Warehouse order creation is particularly suitable for optimizing processes for picking.

Integration

You assign warehouse orders to warehouse workers in resource management.

Prerequisites

You have defined the following in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM):

●      Number Ranges for Warehouse Orders

For more information about defining number ranges for warehouse orders, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order ® Define Number Ranges for Warehouse Order.

●      Storage Bins

For more information about defining number ranges for warehouse orders, see the IMG for EWM under Master Data ® Storage Bins.

●      Activity Areas

For more information about defining number ranges for warehouse orders, see the IMG for EWM under Master Data ® Activity Areas ® Define Activity Area.

●      Start Bins

To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Master Data ® Storage Bin ® Assign Start/End Storage Bin for Activity Area.

Features

A wave consists of a number of deliveries. After the wave and wave item have been released (either automatically by EWM or manually by a user), EWM creates warehouse tasks. EWM joins the warehouse tasks together into warehouse orders, according to the warehouse order creation rules (WO creation rules) you have defined. A warehouse order can contain warehouse tasks from more than one delivery.

You can create locked warehouse orders resulting from the wave release. You cannot initially continue to process these warehouse orders. You can use a method in the warehouse management monitor to release the lock on the warehouse orders. If you want to release the lock on a warehouse order, you can select the Unlock WO method, for example, in the warehouse management monitor in the dialog structure under the node Documents ® Warehouse Order using the More Methods action menu (see Processing Waves).

During this summarization of the warehouse tasks into warehouse orders, EWM uses the search sequence for WO creation, for example, first rule A, then B, then C. EWM works through the WO creation rules in sequence, as you have defined for each activity area. You can change the sequence subsequently.

Filters and limit values control which warehouse tasks and how many warehouse tasks EWM groups together into a warehouse order.

The individual WO creation rule can contain sort rules. As soon as EWM applies a WO creation rule, it sorts the warehouse tasks according to these sort rules.

Since the work packages for the warehouse employee are based on the complete summarization of warehouse tasks into warehouse orders, then after all user-defined WO creation rules have been applied, no warehouse tasks must be left over that are not assigned to a warehouse order. If EWM has applied all the user-defined WO creation rules for the search sequence, and there are still unprocessed warehouse tasks, the system uses a remainder rule . This rule creates warehouse orders for the remaining warehouse tasks. EWM summarizes these warehouse tasks according to the following criteria:

●      For each activity area

●      For each queue

●      For each consolidation group

If you do not define your own WO creation rules for the current activity area, then warehouse order creation uses a standard rule . This rule attempts to group deliveries according to the following criteria:

●      For each activity area

●      For each queue

●      For each delivery

You can use the following parameters to define creation of warehouse orders in detail for your warehouse processes:

●      Sorting rule

For more information about defining sorting rules, see the IMG for EWM under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order ® Define Sorting Rules for Warehouse Tasks.

●      Filters

For more information about item filters or subtotal filters, see Filters for Warehouse Order Creation Rules.

●      Limit value

For more information, see Limit Values for Warehouse Order Creation Rules.

●      Parameters for packing

You use these parameters to specify the number of handling units for a warehouse order. You specify these parameters in a packing profile, which you assign to a packaging specification.

For more information about defining packing profiles, see the IMG for EWM under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order ® Define Packing Profile for Warehouse Order Creation.

●      Packing mode

●      Consolidation group

During warehouse order creation, the consolidation group influences which warehouse tasks you are permitted to pack together. EWM determines the consolidation group in the delivery, and transmits it to the relevant warehouse tasks.

You define the maximum number of consolidation groups in a warehouse order as the definition of a limit value.

You can simulate creation of warehouse orders for your warehouse tasks.

You can define control parameters for warehouse order creation. For example, you can activate the log for WO creation for each warehouse number, activity area or warehouse order creation rule, or specify the number of work processes depending on the warehouse number.

Activities

●      EWM creates a list of warehouse requests.

●      EWM groups the warehouse requests into a wave (for example, a wave pick) and releases it.

●      EWM starts warehouse order creation, and uses the wave as a basis for creating a suitable number of warehouse tasks.

●      EWM creates warehouse orders for each warehouse task, according to your Customizing settings, which contain the relevant warehouse tasks.

○       For more information about making settings for the sorting rules, filters, limit values, parameters for packing, and the packing mode, see the IMG for EWM under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order ®

■       Define Sort Rules for Warehouse Tasks

■       Define Filters for Warehouse Order Creation Rules

■       Define Limit Values for the Size of Warehouse Order

■       Define Packing Profile for Warehouse Order Creation, and select an option for Split WT.

■       Define Packing Profile for Warehouse Order Creation, and select an option for Split TO.

○       For more information about setting the consolidation group, see the IMG for EWM under Goods Receipt ® Deconsolidation ® Define Number Ranges for Consolidation Group or Extended Warehouse Management ® Goods Issue ® Define Number Range for Consolidation Groups.

●      If you want to simulate warehouse order creation for your warehouse tasks, then on the SAP Easy Access screen choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Monitoring ® Warehouse Management Monitor.

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                                                  i.       Choose warehouse number 0001, the monitor SAP and Execute.

                                                ii.       Open Documents ® Warehouse Tasks.

                                               iii.       In the dialog box, choose the warehouse task status Open and  Execute.

                                               iv.       Select one or more open warehouse tasks and choose Other Methods ® Simulate Warehouse Order. The WO Create Rule dialog box appears.

                                                 v.       Enter a warehouse order creation rule.

If you do not make an entry, then EWM executes the warehouse order creation rules according to the search sequence for warehouse order creation rules.

●      If you want to define control parameters for warehouse order creation, from the SAP Easy Access choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Settings ® Warehouse Order ® Set Up Control Parameters for Warehouse Order Creation.