This indicator is required to be defined If materials are supposed to be managed in Bulk Storage. The indicator describes the ability of a material to be stacked and is one of the main criteria used to define the structure of a bulk storage unit.
Every material used in bulk storage must be assigned a bulk storage indicator in the Material Master (MM01 / MMO2) "Warehouse Management 1" view. Materials that have the same stacking ability are assigned to the same bulk storage indicator.
If this indicator is entered manually on the initial screens of the goods movements in Materials Management (WMS parameter), the indicators from the material masters are ignored.
IMG Path:
Logistics Execution -> Warehouse Management -> Master Data -> Material -> Define Special Movement Indicator
Transaction Code: SPRO/ SM30
Table / View: T306 / V_T306
Default settings
In the SAP standard system, examples are preset for warehouse numbers 001 and 002.
Actions
1. Classify your materials according to certain criteria (for example, bulky materials, extremely heavy materials, and so on).
2. Create your special movement indicators with the corresponding description.
3. Allocate special movement indicators to the materials in the material master data.
Notes:
There are some pre-requisites to be fulfilled to handle bulk storage in WM.
1) Bulk storage indicators are to be defined and assigned in WM view of material master.
2) Palletization data to be defined in WM view of material master with SUT types.
3) The strategy 'B' to be selected for the put-away storage type.
4) Add to existing stock and mixed storage (if required) are to selected for the put-away storage type.
5) Storage type control for bulk storage is to be configured for combined put-away, partial quantities, block transfer in to row if required.
6) Storage bin type is to be entered when bin is created in bulk storage type.
7) Block structure is to defined with storage bin type, allowed SUT types, no.of stacks, stack height and number of SU.
