Read Warehouse

To find and read the description of a specific warehouse.

Technical Data

Entity Type	Service Operation
Release State	released
Technical Name	WarehouseByIDQueryResponse_In
Namespace	http://sap.com/xi/EWM/Global
Application Component	SCM-EWM
Web Service Definition (Back End)	/SCWM/BIF_WH_ID_QR
Direction	inbound
Mode	synchronous
Idempotency	no
Change/Update Behavior	not applicable
P2P Communication Enabled	true

Business Context and Use

The Read Warehouse inbound operation enables you to find and read the description of a specific warehouse.A warehouse is a logistics area that represents a warehousing facility or physical warehouse. A warehouse is uniquely identified by a warehouse ID or warehouse number.The Read Warehouse operation can be used by graphic applications to provide a visual depiction of a warehouse, or used by optimization applications to view or optimize warehouse storage facilities. To support these purposes, the Read Warehouse operation can be used in conjunction with other operations, such as Read Warehouse Area and Read Warehouse Sub Area .

Related Operations

The Read Warehouse Area operation reads the contents of a specific warehouse area or range of warehouse areas.The Read Warehouse Sub Area operation reads the description of a specific warehouse sub area or range of warehouse sub areas.

Features

You use the Read Warehouse operation to read the contents of a specific warehouse, and return its description. The unique ID of the warehouse is used as input to this operation. The operation returns the description for the selected warehouse.If the warehouse does not exist or cannot be found, an error message is returned.

Error Handling

The operation returns an error if the warehouse description cannot be retrieved. This can occur, for example, if the warehouse has been deleted. This can also occur if the warehouse ID specified is incorrect or invalid.

Message Types

WarehouseByIDQuery_sync
WarehouseByIDResponse_sync

Notes on SAP Implementation

For more information about SAP implementation requirements, see the Warehouse business object

Enhancements

The BAdI for WarehouseQueryResponse (/SCWM/EX_WHSE_BIF_WHSE) Business Add-In (BAdI) is available for this operation.

More Information

For more information about warehouses and their use, 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 .