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© Mahindra Satyam 2009

Pankaj Jain

March 2010

SAP EWM Overview


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Objectives

Understand the EWM Basics

Landscape overview EWM Big picture

Warehouse Structure

Inbound Process

Outbond Process

New concepts

Major Enhancements

Other Notable changes

Warehouse Documents


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EWM Big picture Overview of EWM Functions

Transfer Order

creation

Customer Returns

Inventory Counting

Scrap Management

Slotting

ASN Management

Packing

Inbound Processing Warehouse Internal Processing Outbound Processing

Picking Locationdetermination

BundlingQuality inspection

Replenishment

Shipping

Transportation

Unloading & GR

Wave Management Yard Management

Kitting

Yard Management

Putaway

Deconsolidation

Putaway loc. Det.RF Framework Picking

Rearrangement


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Warehouse Structure

Warehouse number

Storage type

Storage section

Storage bin

Quant

Activity Area

Transportation Unit

Vehicle

Staging area

Door

Resource

Work centre

Packaging specification

Warehouse Product


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Warehouse Structure


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Warehouse Structure

Warehouse number

In EWM, you can manage an entire physical warehouse complex using a single

warehouse number.

Storage type

You can define the individual warehouse facilities or warehouses that make up

the warehouse complex, using their technical, spatial, and organizational

characteristics as storage types.

Storage section

Each storage type is divided into storage sections. All storage bins with specific

common attributes usually belong to one storage section, for example, storage

bins for fast-moving items that are close to the goods issue zone.


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Warehouse Structure

Storage bin

Each storage type and storage section consists of a selection of storagecompartments, that in EWM are called storage bins. The coordinates of the

storage bin tell you the exact position in the warehouse, where goods can be

stored.

Quant

The quant is used for inventory management of a material in a storage bin.


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Warehouse Structure – Activity Area

The activity area is a logical grouping of storage bins. It can refer to a storage bin, or

can concatenate bins from several storage types.


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SType ST02

Warehouse Structure – Activity Area

SType ST01

AA2AA1

AA3 (AA3 = AA1 + AA2)

• Activity Areas (AA) are logical groups of bins that can be used in different

activities like Picking, Put-away, Physical Inventory.

• Activity Areas are used to determine how Warehouse Orders (WO) are created

through Warehouse Order Creation Rules (WOCR).

• Activity Areas enables sorting sequences for Bins.

• Activity Area is an influencing parameter in determining queues

S &


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Warehouse Structure – Transport Unit & Vehicle

Transportation Unit (TU)

The smallest loadable unit of a vehicle that is used to transport goods. The

transportation unit (TU) can be a fixed part of the vehicle.

Vehicle:

A specialization of a particular means of transport. A vehicle can comprise one or

more transportation units

The following shows different transportation units:

· Vehicle 1: Semi trailer truck with one transportation unit

· Vehicle 2: Truck with cargo area and trailer, in other words, two transportation units

· Vehicle 3: Train with four wagons, in other words, four transportation units

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Warehouse Structure – Staging Area

Organizational unit that is assigned hierarchically to the warehouse number and

that is used to organize the flow of goods in the warehouse.Staging areas are used for the interim storage of goods in the warehouse. They are

located in close proximity to the doors assigned to them. You can define staging

areas for different purposes and even simultaneously for multiple purposes:

Goods receipt

Interim storage of unloaded goods until they are put away

Goods issueInterim storage of picked goods until they are loaded


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Warehouse Structure - Door

Door is a location in the warehouse where the goods arrive at or leave the

warehouse. The door is an organizational unit that you assign to the warehousenumber.

Vehicles and their transportation units (TUs) drive up to the doors of a warehouse

to load or unload goods there. The doors are in close proximity to the relevant

staging areas.

W h St t I b d/O tb d


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Warehouse Structure – Inbound/Outbound

Staging area/Door


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Warehouse Structure - Resource

Resource:

A resource is an entity representing a user or equipment, which can executework in the warehouse.

A resource can logon to a radio frequency (RF) or non-RF environment.

Once the resource is logged on to the system, it can receive work for

execution, and can be tracked and displayed in the warehouse management

monitor .


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Warehouse Structure – Work Centre

The work center is a physical unit in the warehouse, in which you can performwarehouse activities.

You can use the work center in the following processes:

· Packing

· Deconsolidation

· Counting

· Quality Inspection


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Warehouse Structure

Packaging Specification:

Packaging specifications are a master data that defines all the necessary packing levels

for a product in order to put away the product or transport it. For a product, a packaging

specification mainly describes in which quantities the product is packed into which

packaging materials in which sequence.

In printed form, a packaging specification is a set of instructions for the employee in the

warehouse. More specifically, the work steps that you enter in a packaging specificationare intended as information for the employee. In this way you can, for example, give the

employee exact instructions as to where to place the label on a box, or how a product

should be stacked onto a pallet.

The system can find packaging specifications during various processes. Processes that

determine packaging specifications often use only parts or specific attributes from the

packaging specification.


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Inbound Process

The inbound process comprises of:

Creation of a Purchase Order, which is sent electronically to the specificvendor

Vendor sends shipping notification (ASN) prior to actual delivery

Delivery document is created holding ASN data

Physical delivery takes place:

– Goods receipt – Putaway of goods

– During each process step delivery document is updated with actual

data

Directly involved systems:

ERP: creation of Purchase Order, creation of ASN, distribution of ASN toEWM

ICH: vendor communication medium via portal

EWM: creation of ASN, receive goods, execute putaway, communicate

goods receipt to ERP

Rough Communication Concept Inbound Processing


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Rough Communication Concept – Inbound Processing

R/3

InboundDelivery

Outbound Queue

Messages in R/3

Terminology

WME

New Delivery

Message Container

Header structure

Item table

M a p p

i n g

WME posts Goods Receipt

Confirmation Message to R/3 Update of Inbound Delivery

Inbound

Queue qRFC


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EWM - Inbound Delivery Processing

Inbound delivery notification: Represents the inbound

delivery / ASN from the ERP System. Serves as reference for

quantities.

Inbound delivery: a.k.a. Warehouse request. Serves as thereference for further processing in EWM.


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Outbound Process

The outbound process comprises of:

Creation of a Sales Order (SO)

Creation of outbound deliveries resulting from SO Physical delivery takes place:

– Pick goods from warehouse

– Goods issue

– During each process step delivery document is updated with

actual dataDirectly involved systems:

CRM: customer communication medium, creation of SO

ERP: creation of outbound deliveries and their distribution to EWM

EWM: creation of outbound deliveries, picking execution,

communicate goods issue to ERP

Rough Communication Concept Outbound Processing


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Rough Communication Concept – Outbound Processing

R/3

OutbondDelivery

Inbound Queue

Messages in R/3

Terminology

WME

New Delivery

Message Container

Header structure

Item table

M a p p

i n g

R/3 creates

Outbond Delivery

Replication to WME

Creation of Outbond

Processing Document

Outbound

Queue qRFC


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EWM - Outbound Delivery Processing

Outbound delivery: Represents the same data as ERP

checked delivery. Serves as quantity reference for further

processing in EWM

Outbound Delivery Order: a.k.a.Warehouse Request. Is

comparable with ERP Delivery. Alll further picking is based

on ODO.

Final Delivery: Represents the physical GI Quantities that

are posted in EWM. In Export cases this might be createdbefore the GI posting in EWM. In other cases it will

automatically be created with the GI Posting for the ODO in

EWM.


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New concepts and Major enhancement

Apart from new functionalities, all existing WMfunctions like picking, packing, shipping, put-away,

inventory, RF, Route determination, Transportationmanagement, cross docking etc., are enhancedand/or re-designed in EWM


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New concepts and Major enhancements

YARD MANAGEMENT

VAS (VALUE ADDED SERVICES)

ROUTE DETERMINATION

WAVE MANAGEMENT

WAREHOUSE ORDER

INTERNAL ROUTING FOR INBOUND AND OUTBOUND PROCESS

DE-CONSOLIDATION

SLOTTING

RE-ARRANGEMENT

EXCEPTION HANDLING

RE-USABLE LABEL ACROSS THE NETWORK

WAREHOUSE MONITOR

CONSOLIDATION GROUP

ALERT MONITOR

MESSAGE LOG


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Yard Management

Yard Management

• Yard Location

ManagementPhysical / Geographical

Location

• Yard Stock

Visibility

• Yard Movements Various movements

Truck


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V S Value dded Services

VAS – Value Added ServicesPacking, Kitting etc.

Delivery XItem 10

Pyramid 3 pc

Packspec PS1Level 1 – Preservation

Level 2–

Unit Containment

VAS Order VO1 Activity 1 – Workcen AP01 VAS item – Pyramid 3 pc

VAS auxpro – Oil Activity 2 workcen AP02 VAS item – Pyramid 3 pc VAS auxprod – Box 3 pc


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Route and Wave (outbound Process)

WR line 10

WR line 20Wave A

Wave B

Route A

WR 100

WR line 20

WR line 10

WR line 20

WR 200

WR line 30

WR line 40

Pick Area 1

Pick Area 2

Pick Area 2

Pick Area 3

Pick Area 4

Route B

Wave CWR line 10

WR 300

Pick Area 2

Route C


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Internal Routing

Following are the possible steps in the outboundprocess

PICK

PACK

STAGE

LOAD

Internal Routing (Outbound Process)

WO 1

WHR1

WHR1

WHR1

WHR1

TO

WO 2

WHR1

WHR1

WHR1

WHR1

TO

WO n

WHR1

WHR1

WHR1

WHR1

TO

PICK

STAGE

LOAD

PICK

PACK

STAGE

LOAD


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Internal Routing (Outbound Process)

Activity Area = TD01

Activity Area = 0020

Pick-HU

Pick-HU

Packing Work center Ship Staging area

Pack –HU’s

Door

TU

VehicleShip HU’s

Pick Pack HU

PICKING PACKING STAGING LOADING

D lid ti (I b d)


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Deconsolidation (Inbound)

Deconsolidation HU

Deconsolidation is

necessary if an incomingHU contains materials that

should be stored in

different Activity Areas or

Consolidation Groups or if

the number of items in the

incoming HU is bigger thana given threshold.

The result of the

Deconsolidation are put-

away HUs that only contain

materials that are put awayin the same consolidation

group.

Putaway HU

In Section

IS3Bin1 IS3Bin2

Out Section

OS2Bin1 OS2Bin2 OS2Bin3

Work Section


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Slotting

Slotting

Placing goods into a warehouse in efficient storage and picking of goods.

product related information e.g. weight, height, widthetc. stored in product master.Slotting run decides storage bin optimally.

Before

Slotting

After

Slotting


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Slotting

Result of slotting:

Slotting determines the following storage parameters and stores them in

the product master:

Put-away strategy

Maximum quantity in storage type

Storage section indicator

Storage bin types

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Exception Handling

Why do we need exception handling?To keep the gap between the real world (physical warehouse) and the

system data (Warehouse system) minimal, all detected inconsistenciesduring execution shall be entered, clarified and corrected in the system as

soon as possible. Exception handling enables this.

F o r e x a m p l e a warehouse worker has to execute a transfer order with a

pick quantity of 100 pieces from a defined Bin, but the Bin is empty.

With implemented exception handler service the user will be able to

describe the faced problem by entering an appropriate exception code.

Configurable follow-up-action can be used to solve the exceptional

situation and help the warehouse worker to continue his work withoutmajor interruption.


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Exception handling

RF-Transactions

UI for confirmation of Transfer Orders


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Warehouse Monitor

Hierarchical

tree for

navigation

Sub-screen

that displays

parent data

Sub-screen

that displays

child data


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Alert Monitor

The Alert Monitor shows Alerts that can for example be triggered by anexception code.


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Message Log

The message log gives additional information about, for example,

the warehouse order creation.


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Major enhancements

•REPLENISHMENT

•RETURNS PROCESS

•RF FRAMEWORK

•CAPACITY CHECK USING DIMENSIONS, WEIGHT AND VOLUME

•PACKING/PACKAGING SPECIFICATIONS

•TRANSPORT UNIT (TU) / VEHICLE / DOOR INTEGRATION

•PHYSICAL INVENTORY

•CROSS DOCKING *

•CONTRACT PACKAGER INBOUND *

• YARD MANAGEMENT *

•QUALITY MANAGEMENT INTEGRATION *


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Replenishment

Different types of replenishments PLANNED Replenishment

AUTOMATIC Replenishment

ORDER RELATED Replenishment

DIRECT Replenishment

Replenishment can be done at Storage type level

Replenishment Parameters can be automatically updated by slotting

Slotting – Calculates Maximum Quantity, Minimum Quantity and

Minimum Replenishment Quantity on Storage Type Level or on

fixed bin level

Manual Entry of Maximum Quantity, Minimum Quantity and MinimumReplenishment Quantity


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Customer Returns

Internal routing to take the return material to the return station

Ability to make usage decision on the return material

Communication sent to CRM on the extra effort for calculating charges

Follow on action that can trigger the next step related TO ’s for put-

away, scrap etc.,


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Other Notable Changes

Storage bin is unique through out the warehouse and it is 18 characters

long could logically defined as aisle-stack-level-bin section-bin depth

Warehouse Request (Transfer requirement )

Post Processing Framework (Message Processing)

Warehouse Process Type (Movement types)

Storage type (Door, Staging, Work centers)

Consolidation group

Country of origin

Final delivery and Final shipment


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Warehouse Documents

Inbound delivery Notification

Inbound delivery

Outbound delivery request

Outbound delivery order

Outbound delivery

Warehouse request

Warehouse order

Transfer order

Shipment

Handling Unit


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Warehouse Documents

Inbound Delivery Notification

The shipping notification from the supplier is saved in the inbound deliverynotification in EWM.

The inbound delivery notification is created automatically by incoming messages

and is converted manually/automatically into an inbound delivery.

Inbound Delivery

The inbound delivery is a document containing all the data required for triggeringand monitoring the complete inbound delivery process. This process starts on

receipt of the goods in the yard and ends on transferral of the goods at the final

putaway, production or outbound delivery


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Warehouse Documents

Outbound Delivery Request

The outbound delivery request is a document containing all the relevantlogistics data in the outbound delivery process right from the origin of the

outbound delivery process (sales order, for example).

The outbound delivery request is created automatically by incoming

messages and is converted manually/automatically into an outbound delivery

order.

Outbound delivery order (Warehouse Request)

The outbound delivery order is a document containing all the data required for

triggering and monitoring the complete outbound delivery process. This

process starts with the first planning activities for the outbound delivery and

continues until the finished goods have been loaded and sent.


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Warehouse Documents

Outbound Delivery

The outbound delivery is a document representing the goods to be

delivered together to a goods recipient. The outbound delivery is used as the

basis for printing the delivery note or for sending a shipping notification.

You use this document in delivery processing when executing the following

actions:

Posting a goods movement Cancelling a goods movement

Setting the status Leave Yard

You can save, process, delete and archive an outbound


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Warehouse Documents

Warehouse Request

The warehouse request is a document that enables the processing of warehouse

activities for a specific product. The warehouse activities for a product include

the following:

Picking

Put-away

Posting changeStock transfer (within warehouse)

Scrapping


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Warehouse Documents

Warehouse Order

This function groups together transfer orders into warehouse orders according to

your Customizing settings, and so creates optimum work packages. For

warehouse order creation, you define rules with their relevant criteria.

You assign warehouse orders to warehouse employees in resource management


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Extended WM – Process Terminology and Definitions


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Shipment

Document containing all the goods that are consolidated by a ship-from party and

are then transported together from an issuing location to a destination location.

The shipment forms the basis for planning, executing, and monitoring the

transportation of goods. The shipment can have the following directions:

Inbound shipment: For example, goods are transported from the supplier to the

plant.Outbound shipment: For example, goods are transported from the plant to the

customer.


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Warehouse Structure

Handling Unit:

A handling unit is a physical unit consisting of packaging materials (loadcarriers/packing material) and the goods contained on/in it. A handling unit isalways a combination of products and packaging materials. All the informationcontained in the product items, for example, about batches, is retained in thehandling units and is always available.

Handling units can be nested, and you can create a new handling unit fromseveral other handling units as often as you want.

A handling unit has a unique, scannable identification number that can be formedaccording to industry standards such as EAN 128 or SSCC.


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