Warehouse Request 

Definition

The warehouse request is a document that enables the processing of warehouse activities for a specific product. The warehouse activities for a product include the following:

●      Picking

●      Putaway

●      Posting change

●      Stock transfer (within warehouse)

●      Scrapping

The following types of warehouse requests exist:

●      Inbound delivery

●      Outbound delivery order

●      Posting change

●      Internal stock transfer

In addition to these working documents, the following predecessor documents exist:

●      Inbound delivery notification

●      Outbound delivery request

●      Posting change request

Use

You use this document in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) to:

●      Process specific product quantities within a warehouse for your goods receipt process or goods issue process (for example, for putaway or picking).

●      Create posting changes

●      Process internal goods movements

●      Process scrappings

EWM uses warehouse requests to form waves. EWM works with both inactive and active document versions.

It creates warehouse tasks to fulfill the warehouse request.

You can create, process, delete, or archive warehouse requests.

Structure

A warehouse request consists of

●      Document categories with different document types. You can define the document types in Customizing for delivery processing. For more information about the paths in the Implementation Guide (IMG), see Menu Paths and Customizing Paths for Delivery Processing.

●      Item categories with different item types. You can define the item types in Customizing for delivery processing. For more information about the paths in the Implementation Guide (IMG), see Menu Paths and Customizing Paths for Delivery Processing.

●      Services that EWM can use. These include:

○       Text management

○       Quantity offsetting

○       Status management

○       Field control

○       Connection to the Post Processing Framework (PPF)

○       Incompleteness check

For more information about the structure, see Documents in Delivery Processing.

Integration

Systems outside of EWM send messages for a warehouse request to EWM. For a goods receipt process, this is an SAP ERP system. For a goods issue process, this is a sales order system.

For more information about Customizing for integration between SAP ERP and EWM, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Supply Chain Management under Extended Warehouse Management → Interfaces → ERP Integration.