One-Step Cross-Docking 

Use

Cross-Docking enables one-step cross-docking, whereby goods to be cross-docked are moved directly from the goods receipt area to the goods issue area.

 

Prerequisites

You have done the following:

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       1.      Ensured that automatic confirmation is not set (HU-managed environment only) by doing at least one of the following in Customizing for Logistics Execution → Warehouse Management → Activities → Confirmation → Storage Type:

¡        Setting the Confirmation putaway indicator for the goods issue storage type (e.g. 916)

¡        Setting the Confirm stck removal indicator for the goods receipt storage type (e.g. 902)

       2.      Enabled one of the following (in the case of an HU-managed environment):

¡        Partial posting goods receipt at movement type level in Customizing for Logistics Execution  → Warehouse Management  → Interfaces  → Shipping  → Define Shipping Control  → Define Shipping Control at the Movement Type Level (enter 4 in field)

¡        Posting goods receipt before TO creation in Customizing for Logistics  → General  → Handling Unit Management  → Basics  → Delivery  → Define Sequence of Transfer Order – Goods Receipt

If you do not perform prerequisite 2, cross-docking execution will be implemented in two steps.

 

Activities

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       1.      The system creates a transfer order (TO) from the goods receipt area (storage type 902) to the goods issue area (storage type 916) in the following cases:

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                            a.      In the opportunistic cross-docking process

                            b.      In the planned cross-docking process where:

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                                                  i.       You have not forced two-step cross-docking in Customizing for Logistics Execution → Warehouse Management → Cross-Docking → General Settings → Maintain Warehouse Level Settings

                                                ii.       The inbound load’s quantity is not greater than the open decision quantity; and

                                               iii.       The decision links inbound and outbound document items or designates an outbound document or item for cross-docking

       2.      When the TO is confirmed, the inbound and outbound documents are updated with the actual pick and putaway quantities.

The cross-docking decision does not track differences.

       3.      In case the TO reference is handling unit (HU) managed, the HU is assigned to the outbound document during confirmation of the cross-docking TO.

One-Step Cross-Docking