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 Staging Area and Door Determination

Use

In staging area and door determination, the system can determine the following values by using determination rules:

  • Staging area groups

  • Staging areas

  • Staging bays

  • Doors

For more information about staging areas and doors, see Staging Area and Door.

The system needs staging areas, staging area groups, and staging bays for storage control. For more information about storage control, see Storage Control.

Staging area and door determination runs automatically in the background when you create or change a delivery (outbound delivery order or inbound delivery) in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM). In the outbound delivery process, it runs after route determination since the route influences the determination of staging areas and doors. For more information about route determination, see Route Determination in EWM.

You can also use the Shipping Cockpit to assign staging area or staging bay and door manually. For this purpose, you are supported by the Staging Area Planning View, a graphical representation of staging area or staging bay occupancies.

Integration

Integration with delivery processing is necessary for using staging area and door determination.

Prerequisites

  • You have defined staging area or door determination groups in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Staging Areas End of the navigation path.

  • You have defined doors and assigned staging areas and staging area and door determination groups to these doors in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Warehouse Door End of the navigation path.

  • You should not specify a staging area or a door as the destination storage type or destination storage bin when defining the warehouse process type for the delivery in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Cross-Process Settings Next navigation step Warehouse Task Next navigation step Define Warehouse Process Type End of the navigation path.

Features

In order that the system can perform staging area and door determination in the background, you must define determination rules. When doing this, you first specify which values the system is to compare with the values in the delivery:

  • Inbound delivery process: Warehouse process type and staging area or door determination groups

  • Outbound delivery process: Routes, departure calendar, staging area or door determination groups, and destination sequence numbers

You then define which of the values named under “Use” are to be determined by the system.

Note Note

If, in a radio frequency scenario, you specify a staging area group but no staging area or staging bay, the first handling unit (HU) that you confirm for a staging area defines the staging areas and staging bays for all additional HUs.

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When the system performs staging area and door determination, it checks the determination rules one after another until it finds one whose values match the values of the delivery in question. It then writes the values defined for this determination rule into the delivery.

Activities

To define the determination rules for staging area and door determination, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Settings Next navigation step Shipping and Receiving Next navigation step Staging Area and Door Determination (Inbound) End of the navigation path or Start of the navigation path Staging Area and Door Determination (Outbound) End of the navigation path.