WM- SUT/ SU Management active

[Former Member]

Hello Friends,

What is the difference between SUT check active for storage type and SU mgmt active? Both you will find while defining storage type.

Ganesh

[Former Member]

Hi,

Activation of SUT check for stock placement- means that the storage unit type needs to be specified for stock placements.

Whereas, activation of SU Mgmt- Indicates that storage units (with appropriate storage unit numbers) are managed in the storage type concerned. It indirectly indicates that, upto "Storage Bin Types" level you can specify the stock placements.

Regards,

Narayana.

[Former Member]

SUT:

The system can only find the appropriate storage bins for a storage unit type (SUT) when creating transfer orders if the SUT check is activated. There is a restriction of 10 allowed SUTs per storage type.

You can enter *** as an allowed SUT in this table. This entry means that all the SUTs in this storage type are allowed. The system then searches for a suitable storage bin for the SUT based on the allowed bin types per SUT.

Before implementing this optional SUT check, you should examine the table parameters closely since problems with performance can arise if the configuration settings are not optimal.

The following example outlines the performance problems associated with the optional storage unit type check and their solutions:

For SUT E1, bin types P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 are allowed. They are to be stored in storage type 001. However, only storage bins of the type P0 exist here.

SUT type E1 would not normally be allowed in storage type 001. An efficient system recognizes this (in that it can access a completely buffered table) and continues the search for a place in the next storage type.

During the optional SUT check, the database is accessed 5 times unsuccessfully. This number increases correspondingly if you work with different storage sections.

It is relatively simple for you to check the customizing settings by viewing the log for the storage bin search. The more unsuccessful attempts made, the more ineffective the process becomes. The number of attempts must be reduced by optimizing the storage type search.

SU:

Storage unit (SU) management in Warehouse Management (WM) enables you to optimize warehouse capacity and control material flow by utilizing storage units within the warehouse.

A storage unit is a logical grouping of one or several amounts of material such as a pallet or a container that can be managed within a warehouse as a unit that belongs together. Storage units can be either homogeneous (containing one material item only) or mixed (containing two or more material items).

All storage units, whether the materials are stored on standard pallets, wire baskets or other containers, are assigned an identifier u2014 a number u2014 which is maintained in the system as the storage unit number. Therefore, it is possible at any given time to know where each storage unit is located in the warehouse complex, the amount of material contained in it, and which operations have been processed or planned for it.

When SU management is not active in a storage type, all stock is managed as separate quants at the storage bin level. With SU management, stock is managed at the pallet or storage unit level. A storage bin can have one or more storage units. Similarly, each storage unit can consist of one or more quants.