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

 

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) defines whether the outbound delivery order is relevant for cross-docking. When you generate warehouse tasks for the outbound delivery order, you can use this process to have EWM check the stock in the goods receipt. In this process, EWM checks whether stock exists in the goods receipt, which is more suitable than the stock in the warehouse. In this case, you can take the stock directly from goods receipt to goods issue. You can only perform the process without using 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 outbound delivery process.

  1. EWM creates an outbound delivery order.

  2. You generate warehouse tasks for the stock removal. At the same time, EWM looks for suitable warehouse tasks with reference to an existing inbound delivery, based on the active Business Add-In implementation.

    Here EWM checks whether the goods receipt contains stock that is more suitable for fulfilling the outbound delivery order item than the stock in the warehouse.

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

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

      • If open putaway 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 stock found in the goods receipt is less than the required stock, EWM generates additional pick warehouse tasks for the open quantity, which refer to stock in the warehouse.

      • If EWM only determines open putaway warehouse tasks, which you process on paper only, for example, EWM does not use these, thereby avoiding data inconsistencies. If you print out putaway 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 putaway warehouse task is available to EWM, based on which it can trigger a cross-docking process.

  3. You confirm the pick warehouse tasks.

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