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 Putaway

 

The destination of the final putaway is the putaway of products into storage bins in the warehouse. The starting point for this is the warehouse request. For the putaway, SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) determines a putaway path. SAP EWM uses your settings to define the path that the warehouse employee should take to put the products away.

Regardless of how you perform putaways in your company, you can configure SAP EWM in such a way that the putaway activities are performed in one of the following ways:

  • Automatically during creation of an inbound delivery

  • Regularly at specific times

  • Manually using overviews of the daily loads, after a request from an employee

You specify this using the Post Processing Framework.

For scheduling and monitoring of the putaway operations, SAP EWM stores a putaway status in each delivery item. This status tells you, for example, for which items putaway has already started.

Integration

Putaway uses the following:

Features

  • You can perform the final putaway using radio frequency devices (RF devices), or you can print the warehouse orders and enter the information for the final putaway manually. You can then enter and save the manually entered data in SAP EWM.

    Both on the display of the RF device and on the paper printout, the sequence of the warehouse tasks corresponds to the putaway path.

  • If there are unplanned stock movements without a preceding document, you can create a warehouse request without a reference.

  • If, for example, the connection between SAP R/3 and SAP EWM is interrupted, you can create a warehouse request manually. SAP R/3 and SAP EWM compare their data at a later point when the connection is available again.

  • You can use SAP EWM to allow the system to define a putaway path for the putaway, which optimizes the order of the storage bins. Storage bin sorting takes place in a logical section of the warehouse, the Putaway activity area, and refers to specific activities. When defining this path, SAP EWM takes into account both one-way streets as well as differentiations in the various putaway strategies, for example, first drive to all the right-hand bins, then to all the left-hand bins, or first drive to the standard bins, then to the reserve bins.

Warehouse Tasks for Putaway

Putaway creates warehouse tasks for you, for the purpose of putting away your products. The warehouse tasks can be created in the following ways:

  • Automatically by SAP EWM

    You can control the time by assigning a schedule condition in the Post Processing Framework Action (PPF Action). For example, Status Packed is Set or Status Goods Receipt is Set.

  • Manually by a user

Putaway requires warehouse tasks in order to

  • Specify the destination storage types, sections, and bins

  • Specify the storage control for the destination storage type

    For more information about storage control, see Storage Control.

When SAP EWM creates a warehouse task for putaway, it simultaneously checks whether the product to be put away is a hazardous substance. If the product is a hazardous substance, SAP EWM determines (according to your Customizing) the storage type you can use to put away the hazardous substance.

For more information, see Hazardous Substance Master.

Activities

If you want to use RF devices, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Execution Next navigation step Log On to RF Environment End of the navigation path.

If you want to print the warehouse order, you can define this in Customizing. For more information, see Customizing for SAP EWM under Start of the navigation path Cross-Process Settings Next navigation step Warehouse Order Next navigation step Print End of the navigation path.