WM :- SAP WM is warehouse management of SAP applications.

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offers easy and effective way to manage the inventory. It monitors 24*7 on
the goods and stocks movements. Hazardous material can be easily
managed. WM is well managed, organized, and effective. Bar code
scanners are used efficiently.

STORAGE BIN MANAGEMENT:

A storage type generally contains several storage spaces or slots. These are called storage
bins in Warehouse Management (WM). The storage bin is the smallest available unit of space
in a warehouse. The storage bin therefore describes the position in the warehouse where the
goods are or can be stored.

WAREHOUSE CONTROLLING:
 Optimization of capacity and material flow utilizing storage units in the warehouse
 Monitoring and display of stocks on hand and summary evaluations of all goods
movements via warehouse controlling tasks

Warehouse Controlling evaluates and reduces the extensive information from

Warehouse Management to a few essential performance measurements, thus allowing
an analysis of weak areas with the aid of graphics. The evaluations for Warehouse
Controlling are integrated with the Inventory Controlling menu as standard analyses.
These analyses are based on statistical databases in Warehouse Controlling – called
”information structures” – into which important, upto- date performance measures are
written directly from the warehousing applications. This data can be used for
performance planning purposes.

PLANNING AND MONITORING:

Rough Workload Estimate
Wave Picks
Warehouse Activity Monitor

These standard analyses enable the person in charge of a distribution center or warehouse to
calculate the rough workload for the next few days. The analyses can be used, for example, for
planning how many staff workers are required, for creating wave picks, or for statistical
evaluations.
Using these analyses it is possible to display an overview of the workload either per day or per
warehouse. The workload data update is based on SAP documents:

 Purchase order and corresponding shipping notification

 Stock transport order
 Rough goods receipt (only in retail systems)
 Sales order
 Delivery
 Returns to vendor, customer returns and store returns (only in retail systems)

The system updates the quantity, weight, volume, and the number of document items or stock
allocations from these documents. Alternatively, processing times can be determined by using
Customizing tables.

Integration
The rough workload forecast is a standard analysis in the Logistics Information System (LIS).
All functions of the LO Logistics Information System are available for analysis of the workload
data, for example:

 Early warning system

 Dual classification
 Classification
 Hit lists and ABC analysis
 Arbitrary aggregation and disaggregation options You can also use the planning function
to incorporate planned data into analyses, rather than analyzing only actual data.

MONITORING: The functions of the warehouse activity monitor are intended to assist
warehouse administrators to oversee, plan and optimize work processes in the warehouse. It
provides a means to notify responsible personnel in case there are delays or errors in the overall
system. The warehouse activity monitor helps you to identify and correct warehousing errors or
critical processes soon after they occur, thus enabling you to carry out warehousing transactions
in a timely manner. The warehouse activity monitor provides

 Automatic monitoring of warehousing processes

 Automatic recognition and display of errors in the warehouse
 Support in the analysis of processes in which errors have occurred
 Support to error correction

INVENTORY CONTROL:
 Controlling The Inventory Process
 Take Continuous Inventory
 Take Annual Inventory
 Executing The Cycle Counting Inventory Method
 Take Continuous Inventory Based On Putaway

 Run A Zero Stock Check

The following five standard analyses for Warehouse Management are available in Inventory
Controlling:

 Picking/Putaway: For this analysis, the system displays the total weight and quantities of
goods that were putaway, picked or returned.
 Quantity flow: This analysis displays the quantities and weights that were moved in the
warehouse. It also includes information about frequency and the average time expired
between transfer requirement or delivery creation and transfer order creation.
 Material putaway/picking: This analysis is based on the putaway and picking of a
material or several materials and includes quantity and weight information for a specific
time period.
 Material flow: Quantity, weight and time required for material movements are considered
in this analysis.
 Movement types: This analysis is based on movement type and the storage types into or
from which putaway or picking of stock takes place.

*** There are several objects that the system uses to control the inventory process. How
youmaintain the objects to define is described below.

 Inventory list parameters

 Movement types for differences

Inventory List Parameters

These parameters control what is printed on the warehouse inventory list and what is displayed
on the screen for entering the results of the inventory count. To define the inventory list
parameters, see the section on defining default values under Activities → Inventory in the
Warehouse Management IMG documentation.

In the table displayed you enter all storage types for which you want to carry out an annual
inventory or a continuous inventory. For each storage type you define the parameters for the
layout of the data entry screen for inventory results and the format of the printed warehouse
inventory list. For example you decide whether the inventory list should include the material
number or if the system should issue a warning message when the difference between the
counted amount and the book amount deviates by a specified percentage or monetary value.

Movement Type for Inventory Differences

In WM inventory differences are posted to a interim storage area for differences. This interim
storage area for inventory differences is determined by the WM movement type. For positive and
negative inventory differences, movement types must be assigned to a warehouse.
To assign movement types in the warehouse number record, see the Warehouse Management
IMG documentation. After differences have been identified and collected in the interim storage
area, they must be recorded in the IM component. This process is carried out using IM
movement types.

To assign IM movement types to your warehouse, see the section on clearing differences under
Activities _ Inventory in the Warehouse Management IMG documentation. In the table of IM
movement types for clearing inventory differences, you enter a

 Stock category (such as inspection stock or returned stock, if appropriate)

 Movement type for positive differences (Post invent. difference field)
 Movement type for negative differences (Clear invent. difference field).Both movement
types point to an interim storage area (such as 999 Interim Storage Type for Differences
in the standard system) with dynamic coordinates.

WAREHOUSE MOVEMENT:
 Basics For Goods Movements
Movement Types In Wm
Transfer Requirement
Transfer Order
Handling Differences
Storage Of Pre-picked Handling Units

In the Warehouse Management system (WMS), there are two types of goods movements:

 Movements that affect only the warehouse, such as stock transfers within a warehouse
 Movements that affect not only the warehouse but also other departments, such as stock
transfers to customers or to production Goods movements in WMS are generally initiated
by another system, such as Inventory Management (IM) or Sales and Distribution (SD).

Goods movement within the warehouse from one storage type to another
You use a transfer order to move materials from one storage type to another for each goods
movement in WMS. You record all material information that is relevant for goods movements in
the transfer order. The actual stock quantity and total stock quantity in the system do not change
during goods movements within the WMS.

Goods movements involving interim storage areas

Goods movements involving inventory management (MM-IM) use interim storage areas. An
interim storage area is a logical (and, in some cases, physical) storage area that is used to
exchange quantity data between Inventory Management and Warehouse Management. Interim
storage areas for goods receipts, goods issues, and differences are used to temporarily store data
before it is posted to the storage areas in the warehouse.

In Warehouse Management, goods movements are controlled through the movement type.
Postings to inventory in IM are also identified by movement types. Together with other
indicators, a movement type that is used for a goods movement in IM refers to a WM reference
movement type.

The reference movement type provides the following information:

 Movement type for WM

 Stock category for the quants created by the movement
 Indicator controlling the creation of transfer requirements and posting change notice

WM movement types provide the following information that is needed to move stock into or out
of the warehouse:

 Interim storage area

 Type of interim storage bin (predefined, dynamic, fixed)
 Control indicators for processing, confirming, and printing transfer orders
 Indicator for finding the storage type in the warehouse

Example
For example, in the standard system a goods receipt based on a purchase order is assigned
movement type 101, while a goods issue to a cost center is coded as movement type 201. Using
the standard WM movement type 101, the system accesses the table in which the movement type
is defined to determine how the goods receipt will be handled in WM.