Stock Removal 

Purpose

The stock removal process includes the picking of goods from storage bins in the warehouse and preparing them at the destination storage bin. If you use Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) for warehouse management, create a warehouse task for all stock movements. You use stock removal transfer orders to execute stock removals. EWM groups stock removal warehouse tasks to warehouse orders. You use the printed warehouse order as a pick list for the stock removal.

EWM contains stock removal strategies to simplify your search for the correct product to be removed from stock. According to the stock removal strategy, EWM selects the storage type and exact storage bin from which you can pick the product that is to be removed from stock.

Regardless of how you organize stock removals in your company, you can configure EWM in such a way that the stock removal activities are performed in one of the following ways:

●      If EWM creates a warehouse request: automatically, using a Post Processing Framework action.

●      Regularly at set times, using the automatic wave scheduling.

For more information, see Automatic Wave Assignment.

Process

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       1.      The warehouse request is a request for EWM to remove goods from stock.

For more information, see Warehouse Req. - Type Inbound Del. or Outbound Del. Order.

When EWM creates a warehouse request, you can trigger the picking of goods in EWM automatically. In so doing, EWM creates one or more warehouse task items for each item in the warehouse request.

EWM automatically transfers the information concerning the picking status to the warehouse order. You then have access to the current data concerning the processing status in the warehouse.

       2.      You create a warehouse task for the warehouse request.

       3.      You use a printed warehouse request as the pick list.

The warehouse request contains the corresponding warehouse tasks.

       4.      You confirm the warehouse task. In so doing, you confirm in EWM that the physical removal of goods is concluded. The product that is to be removed from stock is then found at the destination storage bin defined in the warehouse task.

At the same time, EWM transfers the picked quantity directly to the corresponding items in the warehouse request.

In addition, EWM reduces the storage bin stock in the source storage bin by the picked product quantity and posts this quantity to the destination storage bin.

Example

The following graphic clarifies the process of stock removal from the EWM-managed warehouse using a warehouse request:

To remove the product from stock, you create a warehouse task for a warehouse request to the outbound delivery order. EWM can thus create more than one warehouse task from one item in the warehouse request. This is the case, for example, if you have to pick the product for item 2 of the warehouse request from three different source storage bins to remove the product quantity specified in the warehouse request. Item 2 of the warehouse request results in the three warehouse tasks 2, 3, and 4. You use warehouse tasks 2 and 3 to move the products from storage type 1 to the goods issue zone, and you use warehouse task 4 to move products from storage type 2 to the goods issue zone.