Pick-and-Pack During Picking 

Use

You can generate pick handling units (pick HUs) into which you can pack products during picking. Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) assigns the pick HU to a warehouse task. You or EWM transfer the pick HUs to the delivery. You thus do not need to execute any further packing for the delivery.

Prerequisites

●      You have created a product that is a packaging material.

On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Master Data ® Product ® Maintain Product.

●      You have defined a packaging material.

In Customizing for EWM, select Cross-Process Settings ® Handling Units ® Basics ® Define Packaging Material.

●      In Customizing, determine which steps you want to execute automatically using EWM.

For more information about making settings in Customizing for the individual steps, see under “Activities“.

For more information about packaging materials, see Packaging Materials.

Features

In the Implementation Guide (IMG), for the creation of a warehouse order, you can make settings for which packaging material the system should propose for picking. When EWM creates a warehouse order, you can set the packing proposals for any number of combinations of warehouse order, activity area, and movement type, as follows:

●      Automatic creation and assignment of pick HUs

When EWM creates a warehouse order, it automatically creates one or more pick HUs with the specified packaging material. It assigns the pick HUs to the warehouse tasks in the warehouse order (optional). When you confirm the associated warehouse tasks, you can manually change the pick HUs and their assignments to the warehouse tasks.

●      Automatic proposal of packaging materials

When EWM creates a warehouse order, it automatically proposes the number of pick HUs with the required packaging material. When you confirm the warehouse tasks for the warehouse order, you can confirm the proposals for the packaging materials and manually create your own pick HUs.

●      Manual creation and assignment of pick HUs during warehouse task confirmation

EWM does not create any pick HUs, nor does it determine a packaging material. You can create the pick HUs manually. When you confirm the warehouse task, you can manually assign the pick HUs to the warehouse task.

For more information about packing, see Packing During Warehouse Task Confirmation.

Warehouse Task Item Split for Pick HUs

If you determine during picking of the warehouse task items that the pick HU is too small for the entire item quantity, you can split the warehouse task item and pick in a newly-created pick HU, in other words, you can execute a partial picking.

Activities

●      If you want EWM to automatically create and assign the pick HUs, then in Customizing for EWM, choose Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order ® Define Packing Profile for Warehouse Order Creation.

○       Define a packing profile.

○       If you want EWM to automatically create pick HUs, select Create HUs.

○       If you want EWM to automatically assign pick HUs to the warehouse tasks in the warehouse order, choose Assign HUs to WTs.

●      If you want EWM to automatically propose the number of pick HUs with the required packaging material, then in Customizing for EWM, choose Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order ® Define Packing Profile for Warehouse Order Creation, and define a packing profile without choosing Create HUs or Assign HUs to WTs.

●      If you want to manually create and assign pick HUs, you do not define a packing profile in Customizing for EWM.

For more information about the packing profile, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order ® Define Packing Profile for Warehouse Order Creation.