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Step by Step Approach for Configuration of WarehouseManagement

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Confirmation

In this section, you configure the system settings for handling differences and for confirming transferorders.

Handling Differences

The system posts differences that you find in the warehouse into a specific difference storage type(for example, 999) whenever you

Confirm a transfer order with differences.

Perform a manual stock transfer to the difference storage type (for example, 999).

Perform automatic stock transfer to the difference storage type (for example, 999) after aninventory with quantity differences.

In the WM system, you can classify differences according to cause (for example, breakage, theft).

Using the difference indicator, you determine the storage type and the storage bin to which thedifferences are posted.

For each difference indicator, you can save the percentage value for the deviation allowed, that is,starting from which the dialog box is to appear. Suppressing the dialog box is appropriate for stockpicks that cannot be done to the exact amount and where the difference is cleared against the stockin the source bin.

Example

A warehouse worker guesses a 3 kilogram pick for a particular material and determines the actualweight further away from the bin. In this case, each pick is confirmed with a difference. It would beappropriate to have the dialog box suppressed so as to save this extra step.

Confirmation Control

One important aspect of confirmation of transfer orders is the setting of the confirmationrequirement. This requirement means additional work for the user, but it also affords a high level ofstock and information security.

The decision as to whether a transfer order item requires confirmation and whether it is confirmedimmediately depends on the parameters you set for your movement types and your storage types.

At the warehouse number level you define:

whether there is to be separate confirmation of pick and transfer

At the storage type level you define:whether putaways to this storage type require confirmationwhether picks from this storage type require confirmationwhether a zero stock check is to take place for a bin that becomes empty through thepickwhether the destination storage bin can be changed during confirmation

At the movement type level you define:

whether transfer orders with this movement type can be confirmed immediatelywhether the confirmation requirement is to be proposed during transfer order generationwhether single-step confirmation is to be applied although two-step confirmation is set

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for the source and destination storage typesthrough which screen the transfer orders are to be confirmed.

Confirmation Requirement

As soon as one of the above parameters calls for a confirmation requirement for a transfer order item,the item must be confirmed.

Immediate confirmation of a transfer order item only works out if

the respective movement type does not disallow this

if the storage type from which the materials are picked is not subject to pick confirmation

if the storage type into which the materials are put away does not have a putaway confirmationrequirement.

Two-Step Confirmation

For two-step confirmation, both storage types involved in the transfer order must be subject toconfirmation.

At the warehouse number level, you define whether transfer orders or TO items are to be confirmed intwo separate steps.

During the confirmation of the first step, you confirm the pick process from the source storage bin.The source storage bin and the quant are automatically updated. In the quant of the destinationstorage bin, only the open transfer quantity is updated at this point.

During the confirmation of the second step, you confirm both the transfer process and also the receiptof the material at the destination storage bin. Here the source storage bin and its quant are no longerupdated, but only the destination storage bin and the quant stored there.

SAP Recommendation

SAP recommends working with the stock placement and stock removal confirmation functions. Theconfirmation procedure is recommended for the following reasons:

Stock in a storage bin should only be available after the actual putaway has been confirmed.

Storage bins should only be released for further putaways after the goods putaway in thedestination bin has been confirmed.

A storage bin that is going to be emptied by a pending stock pick should already be filled with aputaway before it is really emptied.

The posting of differences should be executed during the actual confirmation, and not bymeans of a separate transfer order.

Include the confirmation process in your organizational procedures.

You can use the bar code for confirming transfer orders. This makes your work much easier.

Activities

1. Decide whether you want to confirm the transfer orders created in the SAP system using theconfirmation procedure.

2. Maintain the difference indicator for differences in TO confirmation.

3. Maintain the indicator "Confirmation control/Warehouse number".

4. Maintain the indicator "Confirmation control/Storage type".

5. Maintain the indicator "Confirmation control/Movement type".

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Define Print Control

In this section, you set the configuration data for print control.

Using the print control function, for example, you can define

Which documents (that is, for transfer orders) are to be printed for goods movements.

How these documents are to be printed (that is, which forms are to be used, how many copiesare to be printed).

On which printer a document is to be printed automatically.

Using the print control functions, you have flexible control of the printing activities in your warehouse.This flexibility, however, means that setting the parameters is a complex task. For this reason, werecommend that you take a look at the entire print control functions first, and then analyze the "print

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situation" in your warehouse.

The number and type of settings you need for your print control depends on whether you are usingthe Storage Unit Management component. If you are not using this component, you only need to setthe "standard" print control functions. However, if you are using Storage Unit Management, you needto set both the "standard" print control functions as well as the functions for storage units.

In this section, we describe the "standard" print control functions. These control the printing of transferorder slips.

The print control for printing specific slips for storage units is described in the chapter Define printcontrol for warehouses with Storage Unit Management.

You need the following settings for the "standard" print control function:

Spool Indicator

Slips are always printed within the SAP system using the Spool function. For each printout,certain data needs to be passed on to the Spool file. Typical examples of such data are:

Number of copies to be printed

Dataset name of the printout within the Spool system

"Print immediately"

"Delete after print"

Using the Spool indicator, you define the most appropriate combinations of the individualparameters you want to use.

In the following settings (for example, the settings for the print code), you do not need tospecify these parameters each time. You only enter the spool indicator as a type ofabbreviation.

Printer Pool / Labels

In the printer pool for labels, you can define a dependent label printer for each printer. In thisway, for example, labels can be printed in parallel on special paper while transfer orderdocuments are being printed.

Sort Profile / Multiple Processing

The sort profile sets the sequence of the transfer order items for printing. As of Release 4.1A,this only applies to printing in multiple processing, since during "standard" TO processing thesorting is set already when the TO is created. Furthermore, you can decide during multipleprocessing printing whether there should be a control break, that is, whether printing shouldcontinue on a new page if the field content changes.

Print code

The print code defines the following information for printing transfer orders:

Form that is used for printing

Sort sequence (via sort pool) in which the individual items of a transfer order are to beprinted. The sort pool is now called up through the multiple processing run.

Spool indicator (see above)

Reading shipping data. With this function you can have additional information for pickingorders called up, for example, the address of the ship-to party or serial numbers alreadyassigned to the delivery items.

Reading production data. Here reservations for staging materials for production areread. (Both switches for reading data should be inactivated for time-critical printing.)

Label form, label spool indicator, and the definition as to how the number of labels is tobe determined for each TO item.

The following text explains how you can assign a print code to each movement type in theWarehouse Management system. A transfer order is always assigned to a movement type. Inthis way, the print code determines the general print parameters for the transfer order.

Assignment of Print Code / Movement Type

You can define different printers and spool codes for various goods movements (sourcestorage type - destination storage type). Also, you can suppress the printing of transferorders, if required.

There are also parameters (print code, form) that you can define both in the configuration"Printer-Movement" as well as in the print code settings.

During the automatic determination of the print parameters, the system proceeds as follows: Ifan item of a transfer order is to be printed automatically, the system determines the generalprint parameters through the print code assigned to the movement type. Afterwards, it checksthe movement-specific print parameters. If one of these parameters (for example, for theform) is also defined in the print code, the system will use the movement-specific parameter.

It is possible to override the definitions for label printing in the print code, depending on thewarehouse movement.

You can also store an additional form for a combined picking list with the spool code and theprinter in order to print a combined document in parallel to single printing for each TO item.This is only possible as an accompaniment to non-combined-printouts (indicator for combinedprinting in the print code) and is otherwise ignored.

Assignment Printer - Picking Area

It can be useful to select a printer near the picking area for printing picking orders.

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Again you are faced with the question: How does the system proceed with automatic printerdetermination, since it is possible to define a standard printer both in the configuration for"Printer-Movement" as well as in the configurations "Printer - Storage Type", "Printer - PickingArea", and in the user master of each user?

First the system checks whether a printer is set in the configuration "Printer-Movement". If so,the printer determination is complete at this point.

If not, the system uses the parameter "PriSrcTyp" defined in the configuration "Printer-Movement" to decide how it will proceed.

If the parameter is set here, the system checks if a printer is defined in the setting "PrinterPicking Area" and then proposes this printer.

If the system finds no printer, it searches in the setting "Printer - Storage Type" and uses this,if a printer is set.

If the system cannot find a printer using the methods described above, it selects the printerdefined in the user master of the user currently logged on.

If no printer is defined here, the system automatically proposes LP01. This writes the data tothe spool file.

Assignment Printer - Storage Type

Here you can store one printer per storage type, in accordance with the printer determinationlogic described above.

Assignment Print Code - Movement Type

A print code is assigned to each movement type. As described above, the general printinformation is determined by this assignment.

Assignment Print Program - Warehouse Number

You must assign a print program to each warehouse number. The name of the standardprogram is RLVSDR40.

Print Control Multiple Processing

A print report is assigned to each warehouse number for printing acombined transfer order. You can also configure the following:

the print code

the printer

the print time

The print layout is set using forms.

Standard settings

All relevant print control tables are defined in warehouse number 001.

The following print programs are available:

RLVSDR40 (general print program)

RLKOMM40 (multiple processing)

Recommendation

Only use your own print programs if your print requirements are not met by the user exits in thestandard system. If you wish to extend the functionality of the program RLVSDR40, use the user exitMWMD0001 to develop them. If you wish to extend the functionality of the program RLKOMM40, usethe user exit MWMD0002. For further information on enhancements through the user exit, refer to thechapter Develop extensions.

Information on how to adapt forms in Warehouse Management is provided in the chapter Developforms.

Further Recommendations

1. Before you begin with table maintenance, you should first look at all tables carefully and determinewhich ones you need.

2. Then maintain the tables in the prescribed sequence.

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