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Process documentationOpportunistic CD (in EWM) in the Inbound Delivery Process

 

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) defines whether the inbound delivery is relevant for cross-docking. You can use this process when you generate warehouse tasks for the putaway. EWM then checks whether the inbound delivery suits an existing outbound delivery order item in terms of the following criteria:

  • Product

  • Batch

  • Quantity including stock separation characteristics, such as party entitled to dispose or the sales order stock

In this case, you can take the stock directly from goods receipt to goods issue. You can perform the process with or without storage control.

Prerequisites

For more information, see EWM-Triggered Opportunistic Cross-Docking.

Process

The following figure shows you an example of EWM-triggered opportunistic cross-docking in the inbound delivery process.

  1. EWM creates an inbound delivery.

  2. You post the goods receipt.

  3. You generate the warehouse tasks for putaway. At the same time, EWM looks for suitable delivery items in existing outbound delivery orders based on the active Business Add-In (BAdI) implementation. EWM checks whether delivery items of outbound delivery order exist whose outbound delivery stock is suitable in terms of products or batch and quantity.

    • If EWM is unable to determine any delivery items of this kind, it continues with the standard goods receipt process and generates the related warehouse tasks for putaway.

    • If EWM is able to determine delivery items of this kind, it checks whether it has already generated pick warehouse tasks for these delivery items, which are assigned to the radio frequency environment.

      • If open pick warehouse tasks of this kind exist, EWM cancels these without violating the FIFO principle. EWM generates relevant new pick warehouse tasks and assigns to these the stock that you want to put away. This enables you to pick the stock directly, without having to perform putaway. If the outbound delivery stock found by EWM is less than the delivered stock, EWM generates a warehouse task for putaway for the remaining delivery quantity.

      • If EWM only determines open pick warehouse tasks, which you process on paper only, for example, EWM does not use these, thereby avoiding data inconsistencies. If you print out pick warehouse tasks, for example, and confirm the printout, you do not save this data in EWM. In this case, no current data for the status of the pick warehouse task is available to EWM, based on which it can trigger a cross-docking process.

  4. You perform picking or putaway and confirm the pick warehouse tasks or warehouse tasks for putaway.

  5. EWM updates the inbound delivery and the outbound delivery order.