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 Processing of Packaging Items

Purpose

You can process packaging items to put away stock-relevant packaging materials or to remove them from stock. When putting away the packaging material, you use a warehouse request for an inbound delivery. When removing the packaging material from stock, you use a warehouse request for an outbound delivery order (see also Warehouse Req. - Type Inbound Del. or Outbound Del. Order ).

If the delivery items are relevant to picking or to putaway, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) creates warehouse tasks for the warehouse request and the corresponding warehouse orders. If not, EWM creates neither warehouse tasks for the warehouse request nor warehouse orders.

If packaging items already exist in an inbound or outbound delivery in SAP ERP, SAP ERP distributes them to EWM and EWM adds the packaging items to the inbound or outbound delivery.

Prerequisites

  • The product of the packaging item is a packaging material. Check the settings for the packaging data in the global view of the product master. To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Product Next navigation step Maintain Product End of the navigation path and then choose the Global Data setting in the View group box. Choose the Pkg Data tab page and display the relevant data.

  • In the goods issue process, the goods movement bin in the warehouse request from which you are booking out the stock for the goods issue must contain a valid storage bin in which a sufficient quantity of the product is available.

Process

  1. You or EWM create the warehouse request for an inbound delivery or an outbound delivery order. Either SAP ERP distributes an inbound or outbound delivery to EWM and EWM automatically generates a corresponding warehouse request, or you manually generate the warehouse request in EWM.

    You can manually generate packaging items for both the inbound delivery and the outbound delivery. EWM processes these to a large extent in the same way as normal items. Exceptions include the batch split, which is not possible in this case.

    When you manually generate the packaging items, you specify all the relevant stock attributes of the packaging material, for example, the stock type, in the warehouse request.

    If the delivery item is not relevant to picking, you specify a goods movement bin.

    If you have configured goods movement bin determination in Customizing for EWM, EWM automatically suggests a goods movement bin. On the SAP Easy Accessscreen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Settings Next navigation step Maintain Goods Movement Bin Determination.EWM uses the settings that you specify here to process delivery items that are not relevant to putaway and delivery items that are not relevant to picking. End of the navigation path

  2. If the delivery items are relevant to picking or to putaway, you generate the warehouse tasks for the warehouse request and confirm them.

  3. You perform any other relevant goods receipt or goods issue steps. For example, you pick products and use the packaging material as pick-handling units.

  4. You post goods receipt for the inbound delivery or goods issue for the outbound delivery order.

Result

EWM has generated the warehouse request for an inbound delivery or an outbound delivery order. You have either put away the packaging material in your warehouse and posted goods receipt, or you have removed it from your warehouse and posted goods issue.