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You use this strategy when you put away products in a reserve storage area. This strategy is intended for situations where reserve storage bins of a reserve storage type are located directly above the fixed storage bins in a picking storage type (nearby reserve).

You can configure whether the system checks if a fixed storage bin is available. You can set up your system in such a way that it first searches for a fixed storage bin in a picking storage type. If it does not find an empty bin, it then uses the Near Fixed Picking Bin strategy to search for a bin in a reserve storage type that is as close as possible to the fixed storage bin of the product.

The system first tries to find a reserve storage bin in the stack where the fixed storage bin is located. Here the system starts on the lowest level and works its way up. If it does not find an empty bin, it searches to the right of the fixed storage bin and then to the left in the same aisle, before searching in the adjoining aisles. Here it always searches from the bottom upwards.

If multiple fixed storage bins are available for the product in the picking storage type, the system takes the first fixed storage bin that it finds as the starting point.

Prerequisites

You have made the following settings for the storage type in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under   Master Data   Define Storage Type  :

  • You have chosen the Standard Warehouse value in the Storage Behavior field.

  • You have chosen the Empty Bin or Addition to Existing Stock/Empty Bin value in the Putaway Rules field.

  • You have chosen the Near to Fixed Bin value in the SrchRule EmptyBin field.

You have defined the bin names according to the same Structure of Storage Bin Number for Shelf, Stack, Level in the picking storage type and the reserve storage type. For more information about this structure, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under   Goods Receipt Process   Strategies   Putaway Rules   Sorting Near To Picking Bin   Storage Type Control: Near to Picking Fixed Bin  .