Warehouse Management: Inventory and Labor

Internal Processing (Physical Inventory, Replenishment)

• Physical inventory procedures within a warehouse are controlled by defining an activity area and assigning it to the physical inventory area.
• Mobile devices offer advantages during physical inventory, such as enabling collective counting for bulk storage and eliminating the need for recounting.
• Storage category is the object to which the replenishment method is assigned.
• Confirmed warehouse tasks can be used as the basis in ABC analysis.

Cross Topics (Labor Management, Exception Handling, Batches, Serial Numbers)

• Standard functions that can be executed in the background upon entering an exception code in a radio frequency (RF) transaction include triggering replenishment and generating a workflow process.
• To activate Labor Management, you must activate the warehouse number and internal process step combination.
• A batch must be created before the goods receipt is posted in SAP EWM when a customer receives batch-relevant material in the warehouse.
• Stock in the warehouse is assigned to the owner and the party entitled to dispose of it.
• Engineered Labor Standards (ELS) are used to define the times required to execute an activity in the warehouse.
• An internal exception code must be assigned to an external exception code, which can be triggered by the system or entered by a user.
• The business context for an exception code controls the process that can use the exception code.
• To communicate with programmable logic controllers (PLC) for controlling conveyors and automated high rack storage areas when implementing a material flow system (MFS), use an AIE interface to a 3rd party software or directly integrate to the PLC using ASAP Push Channels.

System Integration, Master Data and Delivery Document Customizing

• Objects in the SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application used to map an SAP ERP warehouse to an SAP EWM warehouse are the business system and warehouse number.
• The custodian in the warehouse setup processes stock without transfer of title.
• For a new delivery type in SAP EWM, you must define a new document category and combine it with an existing document type.
• Key fields used to define a delivery document in SAP Extended Warehouse Management customizing include document type and document category.
• Additional customizing needed for a new EWM document type for an inbound process includes defining the SAP ERP document type mapping to the delivery document type.
• A business system in system integration is connected to a logical system, and it allows the mapping of document type and item type depending on the source system.

Inbound Processes (Value Added Services, Cross-docking, Quality Management)

• Elements of an inspection rule in a decentralized EWM include sample drawing procedure and Properties.
• Separating storage locations for sales and production allows control over material supplied for production vs. material available for sales.
• To simplify master data creation for quality inspections in decentralized SAP EWM with QM integration, create the inspection setup in the material master and distribute it to create the quality inspection rule.
• The default requirement for an asynchronous goods receipt process in SAP Extended Warehouse Management is an inbound delivery.
• A purchase order and production order can be the reference for a Notification of Expected Goods Receipt.
• Opportunistic cross-docking is enabled in a decentralized EWM in the product and the warehouse process type.
• When using embedded EWM, you can use the ERP Inbound Delivery to post goods receipt and use synchronous goods receipt where you post the GR in EWM.
• Information used to determine the availability group includes storage location, warehouse number, and plant.
• To perform explicit counting using the Quality Inspection Engine, a work center and inspection rule is required.
• One can configure the storage of high-theft-risk products by creating a new storage type, a new putaway control indicator, and a new storage bin type.

Warehouse Processing, Warehouse Task and Order Creation, Strategies

• Evaluation points influence the search sequence of storage types, storage sections, and bin types.
• Before creating warehouse tasks for an outbound or inbound delivery order, configure putaway/stock removal control indicators and warehouse process type determination.
• Item-level filters can be created using parameters like maximum weight, minimum volume and the number of items.
• The preparation time in the warehouse order creation rule defines the time required by an employee to prepare the processing of the warehouse order.
• A warehouse order can include warehouse tasks and physical inventory items.
• The warehouse process category indicates the type of goods movement when defining a new warehouse process type.
• A stock removal strategy that can be realized with either packaging specifications or the alternative unit of measure (AUOM) is large/small quantities and partical quantities first.
• Fields in the warehouse process type used to determine warehouse order creation rules (WOCR) include WOCR activity area and activity.
• Internal goods movements include warehouse reorganization, replenishment, and direct putaway.
• A process type group can be used to minimize customizing efforts for multiple process types that should all use the same storage type search sequence for putaway.
• You can assign an external process step to the warehouse process type and delivery item type.

Process and Layout Oriented Storage Control

• A warehouse process type and warehouse order creation rule can be used to specify the storage process.
• Assign an external process step to an internal process step to create external process steps in process-oriented storage control.
• A storage group provides the definition of a logical or physical breakdown of a storage type and assignment to multiple storage bins.
• Pack and value-added services can be used as process steps in an outbound process.
• Assign the first process step in product warehouse tasks during putaway with process-oriented storage control.

Outbound Processes (Wave Management, Production Integration)

• Storage type groups and storage types can be included in a storage type search sequence for stock removal.
• Actions possible based on a value-added service (VAS) order include assembling a kit, consuming auxiliary products, and capturing time required.
• Characteristics of an early capacity check include that it happens during warehouse task creation and is based on capacities of bin types.
• Quantities can be based on packaging specifications, replenishment quantities, and production material requests in advanced production integration.
• Requirements for automatic wave creation include a scheduled job for automatic release and wave templates with one or more options defined.
• Options available when using a parking profile to create pick-HUs include Split warehouse task, to fill the HU as completely as possible, Consolidate target length, width, and height and Use a simple algorithm, a complex algorithm, or a BAdI.
• An outbound delivery order and an outbound delivery is a mandatory document category combination with decentralized EWM.
• Processes for which a direct outbound delivery order can be created include issue to cost center, scrapping, and direct sales.
• For delivery-based production integration when using the delivery document in SAP ERP, a posting change document in SAP EWM is created when the supplying and receiving storage locations are assigned to the same warehouse number and A production material request in the supplying warehouse when the supplying and receiving storage locations are assigned to different warehouse numbers are created for outbound delivery.
• Waves are created automatically when an outbound delivery order is created and manually during planning in the shipping cockpit.
• The system attempts to read the combination of warehouse number, stock removal indicator, stock type, and warehouse process type; then, it only uses the warehouse number when determining the storage types from which to remove the stock for picking tasks.
• An outbound delivery is created in the ERP system in a direct outbound delivery scenario.

Shipping and Receiving

• To enable yard management, define a storage type for a yard in one of the warehouse numbers, and connect the yard with doors to the other warehouse number if your customer has two warehouse numbers that share the same physical yard.
• For the use of Yard Management, both doors and checkpoints are required.
• From the shipping cockpit, you can create waves and assign doors, create and check-in transportation units
• The advantage of advanced shipping and receiving compared to other transportation planning integration options is that transportation units or vehicles are not required.

Warehouse Structure, Resource Management and SAP EWM Master Data

• Conveyor System, Deconsolidation and Work Center in Staging Area Group are storage type roles.
• A bin must be unique in the warehouse.
• Select the handling unit to be processed is something a mobile user can do when working with semi-system-guided processing.
• You can assign resource type and bin access type to a resource.
• A resource group definition influences the queues a resource should process
• Storage bins from different storage types can be assigned to the same activity area.
• The warehouse order creation rules to be used and the area in which a resource will work in the warehouse can be controlled with an activity area.
• The warehouse order must be in a queue that is assigned to the resource either directly or through a resource group is a prerequisite for assigning a warehouse order to a resource automatically.
• Warehouse orders are sorted for automatic assignment to a resource by latest starting date and by execution priority.

Managing Clean Core

• Types of data contained in SAP S/4HANA Cloud include Transaction Configuration and Master.
• Features of the clean core dashboard include that it can be accessed by using SAP For Me and Customers can grant access to the dashboard to partners.
• You can use the SAP Signavio Process Manager and SAP Signavio Process Governance solutions to create the workflows when working on an SAP S/4HANA Cloud brownfield project,
• SAP Business Accelerator Hub can be used to explore released APIs.

Warehouse Management (Monitor - Cockpit)

• Stocks that can be displayed in the SAP Extended Warehouse Management warehouse management monitor include: Stock in transit and Stock in transportation units.
• Call a method to perform actions on the selected object by using a hotspot in the warehouse management monitor.
• Objects that can be added to the warehouse cockpit are tailored measurement services and calculated measurement services.
• Tailored measurement services are characteristics of tailored measurement services and that They are based on calculated measurement services