Warehouse

management

Materials Management (MM) Overview

Requirements
Planning
External procurement
Purchasing

Internal procurement
Production

Warehouse Management

Invoice
verification
Invoice
receipt

Goods
receipt
Inventory Management

Internal and external

financial accounting

Goods
issue

Posting
change

Sales and
Distribution

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The SAP Warehouse Management System

Integration of WM in the SAP System
The Physical Warehouse Structure and the Warehouse
Structure in the Warehouse Management System
Warehouse Numbers, Storage Types, Storage Sections,
Storage Bins and Quants
Depiction of the Warehouse Structure in the
Inventory Management System and the Warehouse
Management System

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WM in use

Goods issue

Production

Warehouse
management

Goods receipt

Quality
management

WM in use

1.
2.
3.
4.

Receiving goods
Picking for delivery
Movements inside the warehouse
Physical inventory

 Materials management means moving goods from one place to another either physically or mentally.

Goods receipt = goods to warehouse

Stock placement
Putaway

Goods issue = goods from warehouse

Stock removal
Picking
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Warehouse Structure in the System

Storage
Storage type
type
902
902

Storage type 001

GR
GR area
area

Good receipt

High rack storage

Storage type 004

Bulk storage
Storage
Storage type
type
910
910

Storage type 005

GI
GI area
area

Goods issue

Fixed Bin area

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Material master for WM

General data: material number, weight, order unit

Plant data: MRP group, special producurement, procurement

Warehouse number data: search indicators, storage unit qty

Storage type data: fixed bin, control qty, min/max per fixed b

Transfer requirement & transfer order

IM

WM

IM level

Transfer

input

requirement

IM

Transfer
order

Confirmations/

Difference

differences

Transfer requirement & transfer order

Transfer requirement = a need to move goods within a wareho

Transfer order = an action to move goods within a warehouse

Transfer order is to be confirmed with LT12

Needed info:

1.

material code

2.

amount

3.

source location

4.

destination location (TO)

Transfer requirement
selections:

Transfer order
selections:

1.

Single LB03

1.

Single LT21

2.

Storage type LB10

2.

List LT23

3.

Material LB11

3.

Storage type LT22

4.

Material document LB12

4.

Material LT24

5.

Requirement LB13

5.

For group LT25

6.

Storage bin LT26

7.

Storage unit LT27

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Physical inventory
Overview

Physical
inventory
triggers

Create
inventory
document

Print
inventory
document

Physical
counting

Enter count
results

Review
differences

Enter
recount
results

Post
differences

Display
stock

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Types of physical inventory

1.

Annual inventory

Storage type blocked, bins counted

2.

Continuous inventory

All quants in a bin counted

3.

Cycle counting

Material per material

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Placement strategies = Where the material is placed by default

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Fixed bin (F)

Bin from the material master WH2 on storage type level

Near picking bin (K)

Near the fixed bin

Next empty bin (L)

The first empty bin faced (random storage)

Addition to existing stock (I)

Where material already exists

Storage unit type (P)

Different kind of materials into different storage units

Open storage (C)

First available storage bin in the storage section

Bulk storage (B)

Customer specific

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Picking strategies = From where the material is removed by default

1. Partial quantities first (A)

Number of storage units with partial quantity reduced
2. Large/Small quantity (M)
Large qtys from high rack, small qtys from fixed bin
Cascadable through quantity rounding
3. Picking from fixed bins (F)
Fixed bin from material master even though it would be
empty
4. Shelf life expiration date (H)
Fewest day remaining before expiration date

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Storage type searches

Stock placement
Storage type: storage type search
Storage section: storage section search
Storage bin: stock placement strategy
Stock removal
Storage type: storage type search
Storage section: storage removal strategy
Storage bin: stock removal strategy

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Fixed bin replenishment

Fixed bin defined in material master

Control limits set in material master
System is checking control limits
System creates transfer requirements with background program to maintain appropriate
stock level
RLAUTA10 creates transfer orders from transfer requirements

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Line replenishment and reel verification

Production backflushing components from line buffers

Fixed bins for materials in the line buffers
IHUB is feeding line buffers with fix bin replenishments
Reel verification is taking a reel from line buffer to the line

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Relevant WM tables
LAGP = storage bin data
MARD = storage location data
LTBK = transfer requirement header
LTBP = transfer requirement item
LTAK = transfer order header
LTAP = transfer order item
PKHD = control cycles
PVKT = supply areas plantwise
PVBE = supply areas, plant, storage
location
MLGN = material master data on
warehouse level
MLGT = material master data on storage
type level
LQUA = quant data, where the quants exist
LINK = WM inventory document header
LINP = WM inventory document position
IKPF = IM level inventory docs header
ISEG = IM level inventory docs position
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Screen shots
from the system

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 Warehouse view 1

Warehouse number level

Storage indicators: defaulted storage searches

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 Warehouse view 2

Warehouse number level

Fixed bin

Storage type leve

Limit values for the bin

Limit value for supplement

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 Storage bin master data LS03N

Log- log exe master data - WH - storage bin-display

Warehouse
org. levels

Bin type
O1: open storage one bin
P1: production
Nn: pallets
Blocks
Why in master data ?

Quant data
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Storage quant master data LS23

Log-log exe- internal wh proc bins and stock display single display - quant

Quant number

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 Control cycle LPK3: link between PP and WM

Log-log exe- master data- WH production supply control cycle production
supply display-individual

Staging indicator:
1:Component staged with transfer req
4:Component staged automatically

control cycle for backflushing

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Transfer requirement LB03

Log-log exe- internal wh proc - transfer requirement-display-single

Requirement eg. production order

Source

Destination

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 Transfer order LT21

Log-log exe- internal wh proc stock transfer display TO-single document

Confirmed

Views
Source & destination

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WM stock overview LS26: where is the material

Log-log exe- internal wh proc bins and stock total stock per materia

WH

Storage

type

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 WM bin stock LS24: where is the material

Log-log exe- internal wh proc bins and stock bin stock per material

Storage

bin

Storage

type

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 WM bin stock LS25: which materials are stored in the

chosen bin
Log-log exe- info system WH stock per storage bin

Storage

type
Storage

bin

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 IM stock overview MMBE: where is the material

on storage location level
Log-mat man inv man - environment stock stock overview

ctivate WM storage loc and select environment WM stock => L

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WM bin stock LS06: block or unblock warehouse bins

og-log exe- internal wh proc bins and stock block storage bin select

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 LI13N: display counting results for an inventory document

Logistics-log exe-internal whse processes- physical inventory- in WM - physical
inventory document count results-display

Warehouse levels

Counter
material

Quantity

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 LX22: Physical document overview

Logistics-log exe-internal whse processes- physical inventory in WM -physical
inventory document overview

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 WM bin stock LX03: Bin status report

Log-log exe- info sys- WH storage bin - bins status report

Time in warehouse

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 WM bin stock LX02: Bin status report

Log-log exe- info sys- WH stock for all materials

Material plant sloc

Stype bin

stock

By displaying one record youll get into quant data LS23.

This transaction can be used for several materials.
Also YLX02 exists.
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 WM bin stock LS04: which bins are empty in a given storage type
Log-log exe- info sys- WH storage bin empty bins

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