Filters for Warehouse Order Creation Rules 

Definition

The filter for a warehouse order creation rule decides whether Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) processes a warehouse task using a creation rule. Warehouse order creation uses the filters on all warehouse tasks that you have not yet assigned to a warehouse order, and which WO creation should process.

Use

You can define two types of filters: Item Filters and Subtotal Filters.

Item Filter

You define item filters, so that EWM checks the individual warehouse task against the filter criteria defined in your Customizing settings.

During processing of a warehouse task, EWM checks whether the given item filter fits. If the filter fits the warehouse task, then EWM continues processing for the warehouse task. If it does not fit, EWM stops processing the warehouse task. EWM checks, according to your Customizing settings, whether it should use another warehouse order creation rule to check the warehouse task that has not yet been processed.

For more information about Customizing for filter parameters for warehouse tasks, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order ® Define Filters for Warehouse Order Creation Rules.

Subtotal Filter

You define subtotal filters, so that EWM can use the filter criteria defined in your Customizing settings to compare several warehouse tasks against a subtotal, containing values you have defined. During this, EWM works out the subtotal for each consolidation group. You must have defined sorting rules with the sort field DSTGRP (consolidation group), for the warehouse tasks to process.

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

During processing of several warehouse tasks, EWM checks whether the given item or subtotal filter fits. If the filter fits the transfer orders, then EWM continues processing for the warehouse tasks. If it does not fit, EWM stops processing the warehouse tasks. In the case of a subtotal filter, this means that EWM does not process the entire group of warehouse tasks for a consolidation group using the current filter. EWM checks, according to your Customizing settings, whether it should use another warehouse order creation rule to check the warehouse tasks that have not yet been processed.

For more information about Customizing for filter parameters for warehouse tasks, see the IMG for EWM under Cross-Process Settings ® Warehouse Order ® Define Filters for Warehouse Order Creation Rules.