Technical Data

Business Context and Use

The Warehouse Area business object enables information about a warehouse area to be investigated.

A warehouse area represents a physical, logical, or functional division of a warehouse, and is uniquely identified by the combination of warehouse number and storage type.

Storage types can include the following:

For example, consider a high rack.  The bins at the highest level of the rack are harder to reach and therefore, more difficult to pick.  A functional division can be applied to the highest level of the rack to use that level as a reserve storage type.  Physically, it is the same high rack, however, the highest level is defined as a different storage type.  You can therefore apply different search rules, and apply different criteria for which goods are placed in these bins, how and when they are placed there.

A warehouse area can also be subdivided into warehouse sub areas, for example, dividing a high rack into sections for slow versus fast moving goods (allowing the fast moving goods to be accessed for more quickly). A warehouse area or sub area can then be further divided into the actual storage bins where goods are stored.

Notes on SAP Implementation

The Warehouse Area business object represents the data and reference values that are used in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM).

This business object can only be used if all required Customizing activities have been completed in SAP EWM.When a user reads warehouse data, he or she needs authorizations for authorization object /SCWM/SLFU for function GL, and authorization for the corresponding warehouse number.

More Information

For more information about warehouses, warehouse areas and sub areas, see the SAP Library documentation for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) at http://help.sap.com/ .  Search for the topics Warehouse Structure , Warehouse Number , and Storage Type .For more information about warehouse areas and sub areas, see the Warehouse and Warehouse Sub Area business objects.