warehouse management

[Former Member]

HI..,

I have problem in ware house. That is when goods are placed in various places in

various storage types, and i want to pick the goods from several places while doing the delivery. How do i do that.

Thanks,

Rams.

[Former Member]

Hi Ramu,

Please correct me if my assumption on your question is wrong,

You wanted to search for the particular material when you want to create delivery for the particular item. If so you can use "Storage type search"

Logistics Exe>Warehouse mgmt>Strategies-->Activate Storage type search

Please go through the help document below:

Thanks

Sridhar

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Activate Storage Type Search

For putaway or pick operations, the Warehouse Management System (WMS) must know:

into which storage types materials can be placed

from which storage types materials can be removed

In the WMS, a storage type is determined as follows:

1. In the case of a putaway, you generally know where the material for the putaway is coming from. In the case of a pick, you generally know to where the material to be removed is to be transferred.

Information on the location from where the material is to be picked is either stored in the transfer requirement or determined by the system using the WM movement type.

2. The system must then know into which storage type the material should be placed, or from which storage type the material should be removed. The table "Storage type search", which you are setting here, provides this information. In this table, you store the preferred sequence of storage types to be searched for the material for putaways or picks.

If you have activated the storage unit check, this check also influences the storage type search. In this case, the storage unit type from the transfer order is also checked against the allowed storage units per storage type. The system finds this information via the table "Allowed storage unit types / storage type", which you are also setting here.

For further information on this subject, refer to the chapter Storage type search.

3. Furthermore, you can influence the storage type search using other indicators:

process indicator (for example, stock placement or removal)

storage type indicator from the material master

stock category indicator

special stock indicator

storage class

water pollution class (WPC)

reference movement type

The indicators storage class and water pollution class influence the storage type search. If you are not implementing Hazardous Material Management, you do not need to pay attention to these parameters.

For information on how to activate Hazardous Material Management, refer to the chapter Hazardous materials".

4. As mentioned above, different indicators influence the storage type search. If, however, you are using storage type indicators and you also have materials with different stock categories or materials with different special stocks, the number of required entries in the storage type search table can become quite large.

To reduce the number of entries, you can define an access strategy for the storage type search table. With the help of this access strategy, the system determines the required entries in the storage type search table as follows:

The system first tries to find a suitable match, that is, an entry in the storage type search table with all the relevant indicators from the material master and, if available, from the hazardous material master.

If the system does not find a suitable entry in the storage type search table, it again tries to read this table, but this time using the access strategy.

Actions

Set the required parameters for the "Storage type search" in the specified sequence:

1. Storage type indicator

Using the storage type indicator, you can ensure that certain materials are only removed from certain storage types or placed into certain storage types in the order of preference you have defined.

You define the valid storage type indicators in the table for "Storage type indicators".

2. Storage type search

Now define the sequence of storage types to be searched by the system for stock putaway and stock pick proposals.

Make sure that you enter the correct indicators for stock putaway and stock pick in the appropriate column.

If you want the system to search through the entire warehouse number for a stock pick, enter "***" (stands for stringent FIFO) as the storage type. The system will then search the entire warehouse for the oldest stock of the material. The entry "+++" means that the system branches to the user exit to the stringent FIFO process (MWMTO013).

If you are using the 2-step picking procedure, make sure that the destination storage type of the pick step is used as the source storage type for distributing the accumulated quantities. For the storage type search with the 2-step picking process, define activity type "2" (Column " Activity").

3. Movement type references

In the Warehouse Management component, you can set up the system so that for each WM movement type certain storage types are proposed. If you want to use this mechanism, set up the necessary reference movement types for the movement types concerned. These reference movement types must be taken into account in the table "Storage type search".

4. Access optimization for storage type search

Instructions for access strategy for the storage type search table