Connection of Delivery Processing to Yard Management

Use

If you use yard management in Extended Warehouse Management ( EWM ), this communicates with delivery processing to exchange relevant information such as status changes. This enables delivery processing to allow follow-up actions, such as status-dependent goods receipt posting.

Yard management and delivery processing exchange the following information changes:

Status changes in the delivery, such as from In transit to In yard
Information about transportation units (TUs)

If you do not use yard management, delivery processing obtains the information about status changes from the user interface of the delivery.

Prerequisites

You use yard management in EWM .

See:

The “Prerequisites“ section under Yard Management .

Features

As a result of the connection to yard management, EWM is able to send modified TU data from yard management to delivery processing.

EWM writes this TU data to delivery processing and the handling unit in the following way:

If shipping and receiving is activated, delivery processing changes the status value for the Assign Transportation Unit status of the delivery document item from Not relevant to Not started.
EWM updates the TU data with the assignment of transportation unit to a delivery header, delivery document item, or at handling unit level.
1. Yard management informs delivery processing about the assignment.
2. For shipping and receiving, delivery processing changes the status value for the Assign Transportation Unit status of the delivery document item from Not relevant (default) to Completed .
  
  If yard management has not assigned a transportation unit to a delivery document item, it sets the Assign Transportation Unit status of the delivery document item to Not started .
3. Delivery processing aggregates the status data of the delivery document items.
  
  If all delivery document items have the same status value, namely Not relevant , Not started , or Completed , delivery processing also sets this status value for the delivery document header for shipping and receiving.
  
  If one delivery document item has a different status value to the others, for example, Completed rather than Not started , delivery processing sets the status value for the delivery document header for shipping and receiving to In process .
  
  As long as the status value of the delivery document header for shipping and receiving has not yet reached In processing or Completed , you can still change the following fields in the delivery document:
  - Delivery document header status In yard or Outside yard
  - Vehicle
  - Door
4. As soon as the Assign Transportation Unit status of the delivery document header has the value In processing or Completed , delivery processing locks the delivery document for assigning transportation units. It then informs yard management about this lock and the status changes that have occurred. This lock prevents data inconsistencies occurring between delivery processing and yard management. Now you can only change the assignment of transportation units in shipping and receiving or in yard management.
Using an action for the transportation unit

If you execute actions for transportation units, such as Loading Begin , EWM simultaneously updates the delivery documents and handling units that are assigned.

In delivery processing, you can only execute the actions In Yard or Leave Yard for transportation units that are assigned to the respective delivery documents or vehicles.

To keep the data consistent, EWM distributes the assignment of transportation units to doors using the delivery documents and handling units that are assigned.