Kit in the Warehouse Request for the Outbound Delivery Order 

Definition

Describes a piece list that you always deliver in a complete and assembled form.

Use

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) uses kits in Kitting. In EWM, the kit information in the outbound delivery forms the basis for kitting.

EWMcan only receive information about kits in outbound deliveries.

EWM does not support nested kits, that is, kits in kits.

Structure

The outbound delivery contains the following items as kit information, corresponding to the levels of a kit:

●      Kit Header Item

●      Kit Component Item

The kit header item is a direct predecessor of this item.

●      Substituted kit component item

The kit header item is a direct predecessor of this item, and the kit component item is in turn a subitem of this item.

SAP delivers preconfigured item types as standard for these kit items. You can use these to individually control the kit items in an outbound delivery.

If you want to change the settings of the preconfigured item types, you must note the following regarding the profiles. We recommend that you use the standard profiles shipped by SAP.

●        You must make sure that the status profile for the item type of the kit header and of the substituted kit components prevents them from being considered in warehouse processing. For example, you must therefore deactivate the picking relevance and the goods movement relevance.

●        You must configure the quantity offsetting profile of the kit header and of the substituted kit components so that for example EWM does not calculate any open quantities for picking or goods issue. This means that you must set the corresponding quantity roles in this quantity offsetting profile to inactive.

When EWM generates a warehouse request with kit items, it checks the settings of the item types of the kit header items and of the substituted kit component items. If you follow the settings for the status profile and the quantity offsetting profile, EWM generates these items without error status and considers these items in warehouse processing.

For more information about settings for kits in the delivery, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Goods Issue Process → Make Settings for Kitting, section Requirements.

If you change the quantities of a kit component item in EWM through a pick denial, for example, EWM recalculates the quantities of the other kit component items and of the kit header item (quantity correlation).

Make sure that SAP ERP always sends information about entire kits to EWM. That is, the quantities of the kit components must be enough to create entire kits, otherwise the delivery quantity correlation returns incorrect results.

A kit header item and its related subitems can be part of a delivery group together with other delivery items. This enables you to be sure that EWM only ships the kit together with the other delivery items.

Integration

●      Integration with SAP ERP

EWMreceives information about the kit as part of the outbound delivery from SAP ERP. SAP ERP also saves the kit as items in the outbound delivery (see also: Kit to Order).

●      Integration with value-added service orders (VAS orders)

You can create a VAS order for the kit header item. EWM copies the kit component items into the VAS order as items (see also VAS Order for the Kit Header Item of the Warehouse Request).

●      Integration with warehouse processing

Warehouse processing in EWM handles kit component items the same as outbound delivery items, meaning you can pick, pack and load them.