Use

In staging area and door determination, the system can determine the following values by using determination rules:

Staging area groups

Staging area

Staging bays

Doors

The system needs staging areas, staging area groups, and staging bays for storage control .

Staging area and door determination runs automatically in the background when you create or change a delivery (outbound delivery order or inbound delivery) in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). In the outbound delivery process, it runs after route determination since the route influences the determination of staging areas and doors.

Integration

Integration with delivery processing is necessary for using staging area and door determination.

Prerequisites

You have defined staging area/door determination groups in Customizing for EWM under Master Data → Staging Areas.

You have defined doors and assigned staging areas and staging area/door determination groups to these doors in Customizing for EWM under Master Data → Warehouse Door.

You should not specify a staging area or a door as the destination storage type/destination storage bin when defining the warehouse process type for the delivery in Customizing for EWM under Cross-Process Settings → Warehouse Task → Define Warehouse Process Type.

Features

In order that the system can perform staging area and door determination in the background, you must define determination rules. When doing this, you first specify which values the system is to compare with the values in the delivery:

Inbound delivery process: Warehouse process type and staging area/door determination groups

Outbound delivery process: Routes, departure calendar, staging area/door determination groups, and destination sequence numbers

You then define which of the values named under “Use” are to be determined by the system.

If, in a radio frequency scenario, you specify a staging area group but no staging area or staging bay, the first handling unit (HU) that you confirm for a staging area defines the staging areas and staging bays for all additional HUs.

When the system performs staging area and door determination, it checks the determination rules one after another until it finds one whose values match the values of the delivery in question. It then writes the values defined for this determination rule into the delivery.

Activities

To define the determination rules for staging area and door determination, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management → Settings → Shipping and Receiving → Staging Area and Door Determination (Inbound) or Staging Area and Door Determination (Outbound).