This includes the entire material flow between goods receipt and stock placement within a warehouse.
The Inbound Process in a warehouse includes:
- Good Receipt
- Creating Transfer Order for Put away ( Put away strategies)
- Printing Put away Labels
- Physically putting the Material away
- The configuration requirements for WM Inbound Operations include integration to Inventory Management. This includes the following configuration tasks
- Defining Storage Location Control for a Warehouse
- Defining and Mapping Movements between IM and WM
- Definition of Posting Changes
- Determining Interim Storage Areas
- Automatic Transfer Order Creation Control
- Managing Negative Stocks in a Warehouse
- Disabling Certain Movements in Certain Storage Types
WM Outbound
This includes the entire material flow for an Outbound Delivery.
The Outbound Process in a warehouse includes:
- Selecting Deliveries for Picking ( Picking strategies)
- Creating Transfer Order for Outbound Delivery
- Printing Pick Labels and Pick Lists
- Carrying out Transfer Order Confirmation for Picks
- Packing the Deliveries into Handling Units
- Creating Shipments for the deliveries
- Loading the Handling Units into Shipments
- Performing the Goods Issue
WM Intra Warehouse
This includes the process flow and technical information related to all the operations within a warehouse for Physical Inventory/Cycle Counting, Bin to Bin Moves, Replenishments, Production Staging, Stock Status Changes.
The Intra warehouse Operations in a warehouse includes:
- Physical Inventory/Cycle Counting
- Bin to Bin Moves
- Replenishments
- Staging Material for Production Orders
- Stock Status Changes
WM Interfaces
This information is about WM Interfaces with external systems that includes Radio Frequency Devices, Label Printers, and Material Handling Devices like Conveyors, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (WM ASRS, Warehouse Execution Systems (WM WES) Due to the nature of the area, the information provided in this section will be functional as well as technical.
The WM Interfaces in a warehouse can include:
- Interfaces with Radio frequency Devices
- Interfaces with Label Printers
- Interfaces with Material Handling Devices
- Interfaces with Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems
- Interfaces with external Warehouse Execution Systems
- SAP standard WM Interfaces for IDOCs and BAPIs
- Business Functionality of the WM Interfaces
- Configuration Settings Required for the WM Interfaces
