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 Loading and Unloading

Purpose

You use this process to load and unload your vehicles and transportation units (TUs).

For simple loading and unloading processes, you load or unload your deliveries (outbound delivery orders or inbound deliveries) or handling units and thereby automatically trigger a status change.

For complex loading and unloading processes , you create warehouse tasks (WTs) and move the handling units into or out of the warehouse. For example, during unloading you bring the goods from the door (source storage bin) to the staging area or to a deconsolidation area or inspection area (destination storage bin).

You can post a goods receipt or a goods issue at different times during the loading and unloading process. For example, you can post goods issue without loading, or you can post goods issue after loading.

You can post stock receipts and stock issues that result from goods receipts and goods issues to the following inventory management objects:

You can post a goods receipt and a goods issue for deliveries and vehicles. Alternatively, you can also post a goods receipt and a goods issue directly into or out of the warehouse.

Prerequisites

General Information

  • Outbound delivery orders or inbound deliveries have been created automatically in Extended Warehouse Management ( EWM ) for deliveries from SAP R/3 .

  • You have created handling units. These are a prerequisite for complex loading and unloading processes.

  • You have made the settings for storage control in Customizing for EWM . For example, you must define storage types for staging area groups (also called goods receipt or goods issue areas) and doors. These settings are necessary for complex loading and unloading processes.

Vehicles and TUs

  • You have defined TUs, vehicles, and default owners in the master data (to do this, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Shipping and Receiving). End of the navigation path

  • You have defined a means of transport in Customizing for SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Transportation Lane Next navigation step Define Means of Transport. End of the navigation path

  • You have made the settings for vehicles and TUs in Customizing for EWM under Start of the navigation path Cross-Process Settings Next navigation step Shipping and Receiving End of the navigation path , for example:

    • Number ranges

    • Settings for the Post Processing Framework (PPF)

    • Control parameters for forming vehicles and TUs

  • You have defined links between packaging materials (TUs) and means of transport (to do this, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Settings Next navigation step Shipping and Receiving ). End of the navigation path

Staging Area and Door Determination

You have set up staging area and door determination .

Process

Simple Loading Process

  1. The picked outbound delivery orders or handling units, if you have directly picked in handling units, are ready to be loaded, for example, in the goods issue area.

  2. You load the outbound delivery orders (transaction /SCWM/LOAD). When saving, the system updates the status of the outbound delivery orders and HUs.

    Note Note

    Variant with vehicles and TUs

    You can load multiple outbound delivery orders for the vehicle (transaction /SCWM/VEH) or for the TUs (transaction /SCWM/TU). Here the system also updates the status when saving.

    End of the note.

  3. You post the goods issue for the outbound delivery orders (transaction /SCWM/LOAD).

    Note Note

    Variant with vehicles and TUs

    You can also post the goods issue for the vehicle (transaction /SCWM/VEH) or for the TUs (transaction /SCWM/TU).

    End of the note.

  4. At the end of loading, at the latest when you post goods issue, the system automatically creates outbound deliveries for the relevant outbound delivery orders.

Simple Unloading Process

  1. You receive advanced shipping notifications (ASNs) that give you an overview of the workload to be expected.

    Note Note

    Variant with vehicles and TUs

    The vehicle drives into the yard. You register or enter the vehicle (transaction /SCWM/VEH) or the TUs (transaction /SCWM/TU), and set the Arrival at Checkpoint status. You can post the goods receipt for the vehicle (transaction /SCWM/VEH) or the TUs (/SCWM/TU) immediately, in other words, before you have unloaded the vehicle.

    End of the note.

  2. You unload the inbound deliveries and post the goods receipt (transaction /SCWM/UNLOAD). When saving, the system updates the status of the inbound deliveries and HUs.

    Note Note

    Variant with vehicles and TUs

    You unload the inbound deliveries for the vehicle (transaction /SCWM/VEH) or for the TUs (transaction /SCWM/TU). Here the system also updates the status when saving.

    End of the note.

  3. The goods are ready for the final putaway in the goods receipt area, for example.

See also:

Assignment of Deliveries to Vehicles and TUs

Integration of TM with the Loading Process