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Process documentationAutomatic Packing in the Inbound Delivery

 

Your vendor sends you inbound deliveries that do not contain any packing information about handling units. You can specify that the system automatically packs any unpacked delivery items. The packed goods can then be included in process-oriented storage control (see Storage Control).

Prerequisites

You have met the following prerequisites:

  • You have created and activated a packaging specification (see Packaging Specification and Creation of Packaging Specifications).

  • You have configured determination for the packaging specification for your business characteristics (for example, vendor and product) (see Packaging Specification Determination).

  • You have configured the determination procedure for automatic packing. For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Inbound Delivery Next navigation step Manual Settings Next navigation step Define Document Types for Inbound Delivery Process End of the navigation path.

    Note Note

    If you have selected the No Automatic Packing checkbox in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Inbound Delivery Next navigation step Manual Settings Next navigation step Define Document Types for Inbound Delivery Process End of the navigation path, the system does not perform automatic packing when it creates an inbound delivery. It does not perform automatic packing either if you configure no determination procedure for automatic packing.

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Process

  1. An inbound delivery notification arrives in EWM through the ERP interface.

  2. When you activate the inbound delivery notification, the system simultaneously creates the handling units (HU), where the vendor has sent you the HU data. Moreover, at this time, the system calls packaging specification determination for the unpacked items, using the determination procedure you have defined.

  3. If the system finds a packaging specification, it creates handling units according to the packaging specification. When creating packaging specifications, you should ensure that the HU Check function does not display any errors in the log. The system can only perform automatic packing successfully if the packaging specification contains all HU-relevant data (in particular, packaging material, target quantity, and product).