Partial Picking (SAP Library - Warehouse Management System (WMS))

Partial Picking

Use

According to the standard settings, the system can only create transfer orders if all of the items in the outbound delivery can be completely fulfilled. For this reason, the system terminates creation of the transfer order if the current warehouse stock of the required material is not enough to stage the entire quantity for the outbound delivery.

Example

You have created an outbound delivery with two materials of 50 pieces each. Since you created the outbound delivery, 10 pieces of the material in the second item were removed from the warehouse so that now only 40 pieces are available. When you create the transfer order for this outbound delivery, the system issues a message saying that the picking requirement could not be completely met.

You use partial picking so that, in this case, you can still create transfer orders for the outbound delivery in the Warehouse Management system (WMS).

Prerequisites

You have allowed partial picking for goods issue for outbound deliveries in the Customizing for Warehouse Management under Interfaces → Shipping → Define Shipping Control → Shipping Control per Warehouse Number

Features

The system creates transfer orders even though the quantity available in the warehouse is not enough to fulfil all of the items in the source outbound delivery.

Activities

Allow partial picking and	Procedure	Result
allow the system to automatically adjust the outbound delivery quantity to the picked quantity	Set the Copy WM quantity indicator in the Customizing for Warehouse Management under Interfaces → Shipping → Define Shipping Control	The system copies the picked material quantity as the delivery quantity in the corresponding item of the outbound delivery, and sets the SD picking status and the WM activity status in the outbound delivery to C (fully picked).
manually adjust the outbound delivery quantity to the picked quantity	In the change mode of the outbound delivery, choose Overview → Picking, and adjust the outbound delivery quantity to the pick quantity on the picking overview screen. Or choose Edit → Copy picked quantity as delivered quantity in the change mode of the outbound delivery.	The system copies the picked material quantity as the delivery quantity in the corresponding item of the outbound delivery and sets the SD picking status and the WM activity status in the outbound delivery to C (fully picked).
do not adjust the outbound delivery quantity to the picked quantity		The delivery is not yet fully picked. You can create additional transfer orders in order to fulfil all items in the outbound delivery.