Use
Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) uses this function to generate a warehouse request for your goods issue process (outbound delivery request).
Integration
When you generate a warehouse request for an outbound delivery order, you can generate value-added service orders (VAS orders) automatically for the warehouse request item [Seite 231].
When you generate a warehouse request for an outbound delivery order, EWM can perform route determination [Seite 638] in accordance with your Customizing.
Prerequisites
The warehouse process type in the warehouse request must be defined.
For more information about defining and determining the warehouse process type, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Cross-Process Settings → Warehouse Task → Define Warehouse Process Type and Determine Warehouse Process Type.
Features
The common functions that run when creating or changing a warehouse request (either inbound or outbound) automatically, as well as for the inbound delivery and outbound delivery order, enable you to do the following:
● Automatic packing
EWM automatically creates handling units according to the packing instruction. It uses the condition technique to do this. You can assign handling units and cross-delivery handling units to an outbound delivery order. ERP copies this information to the corresponding ERP outbound delivery.
● Connection to SAP Business Information Warehouse
When a delivery item has been completed in EWM, EWM sends the current data to SAP Business Information Warehouse. As a prerequisite, you must have activated the update of delivery items in SAP Business Information Warehouse.
For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Interfaces → SAP Business Information Warehouse → General Settings → Activate BW Update.
The additional functions that run when creating or changing a warehouse request automatically for the outbound delivery order, enables you to do the following:
● Rough determination of the picking location
The system determines the source storage bins for a delivery based on the stock removal strategies. However, it does not make quantity reservations for the products.
You can use the activity area that is assigned to the storage bin as a selection criterion.
● Determination of which products can be packed together for a shipment
● Determination of staging area
● Determination of door assignment
● Determination of warehouse process type
For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Cross-Process Settings → Warehouse Task → Determine Warehouse Process Type.
● Route determination
● Determination of staging area group
● Adding packing items
If, for example, you use recyclable packing materials, you can manually add delivery items for the packing material to an outbound delivery order and then post goods issue again for this packing material (see also Processing of Packaging Items [Seite 165]).
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management → Delivery Processing → Maintain Outbound Delivery Order. Select an outbound delivery order, and on the Items tab page, choose with the quick info Create. Use the input help to select a packing item type.
● You can control processes for outbound delivery orders as part of the configuration.
For example, you can create an invoice before goods issue in the outbound delivery process. You can also do this on the basis of other delivery parameters, for example, the export relevance or the route that is determined. As a prerequisite, you have defined process indicators for the delivery document header and for the delivery document items in Customizing for EWM. For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Cross-Process Settings → Delivery Processing → Process Management and Control.
● You can enter the account assignment on the user interface for the outbound delivery order in the detail view of the item on the Account Assignments tab page.
A department within your company requests consumable material from your warehouse. Inventory management is no longer required for this consumable material. You update the consumable material, for example, for a cost center or project, by entering the account assignment on the user interface for the outbound delivery order.
Activities
● At the same time as an outbound delivery is generated in ERP, ERP sends a message for an outbound delivery request [Seite 90] or posting change request to EWM.
● EWM automatically generates a warehouse request using the Post Processing Framework (PPF).
● During automatic creation and saving of the warehouse request, EWM triggers the following:
○ Mapping of delivery data from ERP onto the EWM delivery data
○ Data enrichment using data from the functions described under Features
○ Wave assignment, depending on your Customizing
○ Determination of warehouse process type, which controls the processing of a warehouse task in EWM, such as whether EWM is to immediately confirm a warehouse task
● EWM creates the warehouse tasks at the same time as releasing the wave. In accordance with the warehouse tasks, EWM creates warehouse orders to assemble work packages for the individual warehouse workers.
For more information, see Warehouse Order Creation [Seite 419] and Creation of Warehouse Tasks for Warehouse Request [Seite 412].
● EWM copies most of the settings that you make in Customizing for process control to the delivery documents, and displays them on the user interface for the outbound delivery order. To do this, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management → Delivery Processing → Outbound Delivery → Maintain Outbound Delivery Order. Display an outbound delivery order in the form view. Here you can find the settings from Customizing, such as in the field Corr.Deliv., Scrapping or Pickup.