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 Strategy: Fixed Storage Bin

Use

You apply this strategy if you want to put away a product in fixed storage bins in a storage type. You use this strategy primarily in storage types from which picking is done manually. You assign fixed storage bins manually.

If you want to put away a product without fixed bin assignment in a storage type for which you have defined the strategy “Fixed Storage Bin”, the system determines a suitable storage bin and assigns it to the product as a fixed storage bin.

The following figure is an example of a fixed bin assignment. In this example, warehouse 0001 has several fixed storage bins: FIX-AA, FIX-BB, and FIX-DD. Multiple fixed storage bins can be available for a product, for example, FIX-1-BB and FIX-2-BB for product BB.

Prerequisites

  • You have defined fixed storage bins in the master data for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Start of the navigation path Storage Bin Next navigation step Maintain Fixed Storage Bin. End of the navigation path

  • You have made the following settings for the storage type in Customizing for EWM under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Define Storage Type: End of the navigation path

    • You have chosen the Standard Warehouse value in the Storage Behavior field.

    • You have chosen the Addition to Existing Stock/Empty Bin value in the Putaway Rules field.

    • You have set the Fixed Bins Allowed indicator.

    • You have defined a maximum number of fixed storage bins in the Max. Fixed Bins field (you can also make this setting in the product master).

    • You have chosen the Addition to existing stock permitted value in the Addn.Stock Forbidden field.

    • You have chosen a method in the Capacity Check field to activate the capacity check.