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 Trade, Warehouse Operations Management

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of the Business Function

LOG_WM_ROLES

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available as of

SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 3

Technical Usage

Central Applications

Application Component

Warehouse Management (LE-WM)

Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

Not relevant

You can use this business function to simplify and streamline processes within your warehouse. Your warehouse managers can use a variety of applications in the ERP portal.

Prerequisites

Type of Component

Component

Is Needed Only for the Following Features

Software Component

EA-APPL, SAP_APPL

Features

Business Package for Warehouse Operations Manager

Employees assigned to the portal role Warehouse Operations Manager have easy access to comprehensive logistical information for warehouse management in the portal. New work centers with new personal worklists optimize how they work and manifold services simplify and speed up the day-to-day operations within a warehouse. Your warehouse managers can find these Web applications on a Web user interface in clearly structured, new or enhanced work centers. The following work centers are available for the warehouse managers:

Inbound Deliveries

In this work center, your warehouse operations manager can view and manage all inbound warehouse deliveries.

  • The Display Material Master service allows you to display a material master record as it currently is or as it will be at a key date.

  • The Display Handling Unit Monitor service provides you with the ability to issue a list of handling units via an evaluation report. By entering selection criteria, you can limit the list of handling units and then display the list. In the list itself, you can process the selected handling units or make posting changes as required.

  • The Display Inbound Monitor service allows you to display and process deliveries that are still open.

  • New personal object worklist (POWL) queries are accessible via links. In this work center, you can view inbound workload for the day, overdue workload or upcoming workload.

  • The Display Items feature allows you to view additional information about a selected item.

  • The Display Transports feature allows you to view additional information about a selected shipment document.

  • The Display Handling Units feature allows you to view handling units for inbound deliveries.

  • The Direct Access — Inbound Detail View feature provides you with direct access to a delivery document, an external delivery ID number, or a purchasing document.

Outbound Deliveries

In this work center, your warehouse operations manager can view and manage all outbound warehouse deliveries.

  • The Display Material Master service allows you to display a material master record as it currently is or as it will be at a key date.

  • The Display Handling Unit Monitor service provides you with the ability to issue a list of handling units via an evaluation report. By entering selection criteria, you can limit the list of handling units and then display the list. In the list itself, you can process the selected handling units or make posting changes as required.

  • The Display Outbound Monitor service allows you to display and process completed deliveries.

  • A new personal object worklist (POWL) query is accessible via links. In this work center, you can view outbound workload for the warehouse.

  • The Display Items feature allows you to view additional information about a selected item.

  • The Display Transports feature allows you to view additional information about a selected shipment document.

  • The Display Handling Units feature allows you to view handling units for outbound deliveries.

  • The Direct Access — Outbound Detail View feature provides you with direct access to a delivery document.

Physical Inventory Monitor

In this work center, your warehouse operations manager can monitor and modify physical inventory in the warehouse.

  • The Display Goods Movement service allows you to access the Material Document List transaction in order to view changes in stock.

  • The Display Stock Overview service gives you an overview of the stocks of the material across all organizational levels.

  • The Display Material Master service lets you display a material master record as it currently is, or as it will be at a key date.

  • The Display Physical Inventory Document List service provides you with a wide range of reporting functions to gain an overview of the progress of the physical inventory for each material during all its phases.

  • The Create Physical Inventory Document service allows you to create physical inventory documents.

  • New personal object worklist (POWL) queries are accessible via links. In this work center, you can view all open physical inventory documents, all materials for which you wish to perform a physical inventory count, and subsets of these two queries based on more detailed criteria.

  • The Display Physical Inventory Document feature provides you with detailed information pertaining to a selected physical inventory document.

  • The Delete Physical Inventory feature allows you to delete a selected physical inventory document.

  • The Check Transit Stock feature allows you to view the quantity of a material that was withdrawn from the stock of the issuing plant but has not yet arrived at the receiving plant.

  • The Record Physical Inventory Count feature allows you to enter a physical inventory count into the system.

  • The Display Inventory Differences feature provides you with a detailed view of physical inventory differences.

  • The Set Up Inventory Recount feature allows you to initiate a recount of a physical inventory document.

  • The Create Physical Inventory Document feature allows you to create physical inventory documents.

  • The Display Goods Movement feature allows you to view any movement of materials leading to a change in stock levels or leading to consumption of a material.

  • The Display Stock Overview feature gives you an overview of the stocks of the material across all organizational levels.

  • The Direct Access to PI Documents feature provides you with direct access to a physical inventory document.