Stock Removal With Storage Unit Management (SAP Library - Warehouse Management System (WMS))

Stock Removal With Storage Unit Management

If you remove materials from storage unit managed (SU-managed) storage types, you can influence the stock removal as you can in non-SU-managed storage types using stock removal strategies.

You can also decide for SU-managed storage types, as for non-SU-managed storage types, whether the system should allow a partial stock pick for a material or whether a complete stock pick should be defined for the particular storage type.

Prerequisites

You execute a partial stock pick from an SU-managed storage type. To activate SU management, you have set the Full stk rmvl reqmt act. in the Customizing for Warehouse Management under Master Data → Define Storage Type.

Features

When you create a transfer order for stock removal from storage units, you can manually select storage units proposed by the system.

Complete Stock Picks from SU-Managed Storage Types

If you want the system to remove the entire SU from stock and stage it for the actual pick, independent of the requirement quantity, activate a complete stock pick for a storage type in the Customizing for Warehouse Management under Master Data → Define Storage Type.

In an SU-managed storage type with complete stock pick requirement, the system blocks the entire SU during stock removal, even if only a part of the material quantity was requested in the SU.

Complete Stock Picks from SU-Managed Storage Types

If you remove partial picks from SU-managed storage types, the system not only updates the data from the relevant storage bin, it also updates the detailed information on the storage unit (SU) from which you have removed the partial quantity.

WMS offers you several procedures for partial stock picks from SU-managed storage types.

Stock Transfer in Non-SU-Managed Storage Types

If you transfer a storage unit from an SU-managed storage type to a non-SU-managed storage type, the SU number is lost. The storage unit no longer exists.

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Stock removal from the warehouse usually has the goods issue interim storage type as the destination storage type in WMS. This kind of interim storage type cannot be SU-managed. Therefore the information on the SU is lost when the SUs are removed from the warehouse.

The SU no longer exists in WMS as soon as you confirm the transfer order item for this SU.

Stock Transfer to SU-Managed Storage Types

If you transfer a complete storage unit to an SU-managed storage type, the storage unit number does not change.

If you only transfer a part of the storage unit into another SU-managed storage type, the system assigns a new SU number for this part of the original SU.

If you transfer a part of the SU to another SU-managed storage type, you can assign this part of the original storage unit to an SU that already exists in a new SU-managed storage type.