Goods Receipt Process with VAS Order 

Purpose

The goods receipt process changes when used in connection with value-added services. You can perform the required VAS activities for a VAS order at special work centers in an interim step, before you complete the final putaway for the products.

Prerequisites

An inbound delivery exists, as does a valid packaging specification, meaning that the system can create a VAS order.

If you want to map automatic creation of warehouse tasks as an interim step in the system for the work centers where you are executing value-added services, you must have already configured process-oriented storage control in Customizing for value-added services (see: Process-Oriented Storage Control).

Process

Depending on how you use storage control, the following options are available to you in the goods receipt process for performing value-added services using a VAS order:

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●     You are using process-oriented storage control:

                            a.      The system creates a VAS order based on the inbound delivery.

                            b.      For each inbound delivery item, the system determines the corresponding packaging specification.

                            c.      The system then creates handling unit warehouse tasks that contain a work center as the destination storage location in accordance with the VAS order. Here, each VAS activity represents a separate process step with a corresponding warehouse task. You can define as many interim steps for the products as you require. All of these interim steps are of the type VAS possible.

                            d.      After completing all value-added services, the system puts away the products in the final storage bin.

●     You have only defined the individual process steps, and are not using process-oriented storage control:

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                            a.      The system creates a VAS order based on the inbound delivery.

                            b.      For each inbound delivery item, the system determines the corresponding packaging specification.

                            c.      The system then creates product warehouse tasks that contain a work center as the destination storage location in accordance with the VAS order. Here, each VAS activity represents a separate process step. You can define as many interim steps for the products as you require.

                            d.      After completing all value-added services, the system puts away the products in the final storage bin.

●     You are not using process-oriented storage control, and you have not defined any process steps:

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                            a.      The system creates a VAS order based on the inbound delivery.

                            b.      For each inbound delivery item, the system determines the corresponding packaging specification.

                            c.      You print out the VAS order and the warehouse employees undertake the VAS activities at the work centers manually.

                            d.      As soon as the VAS activities are completed, you can enter a confirmation in the system. The system then puts away the products in the final storage bin.

The following figure shows you a schematic overview of the goods receipt process with VAS order:

Result

The products are prepared for putaway following your requirements, and are put away.

Example

The following figure shows you how the system forms the VAS order from the inbound delivery item and its related packaging specification in the goods receipt process with VAS order. The system maps the packaging specification levels in the VAS order as VAS activities.