SAP S/4 HANA EWM

Warehouse
Structure
Table of contents

1. Warehouse Structure Overview

2. Warehouse Number
3. Storage Types
4. Storage Sections
5. Storage Bins

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 1. Warehouse Structure Overview
Plant (Factory/DC)

Storage Location 0001 Storage Location 0002 Storage Location 0003

SAP IM

SAP EWM Warehouse Number 001

Storage Type “Racks 1” Storage Type “Vessels” Storage Type “Others”

Activity Area 1

Bin Bin Bin Bin Bin Bin Bin Bin Bin Bin

Quant Quant Quant Quant Quant Quant Quant Quant Quant Quant

Quant Section 1 Quant

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Table of contents

1. Warehouse Structure Overview

2. Warehouse Number
3. Storage Types
4. Storage Sections
5. Storage Bins

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 2. Warehouse Number
Warehouse Number: Highest Level Organizational Unit in EWM
( It often corresponds to a Physical Building or Distribution Center )

Plant 1 (Factory) Plant 2 (Factory)

Warehouse Number 001 Warehouse Number 002

Plant 3 (DC) Plant 4 (DC) Plant 5 (DC)

Warehouse Number 003 Warehouse Number 004 Warehouse Number 005

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Table of contents

1. Warehouse Structure Overview

2. Warehouse Number
3. Storage Types
4. Storage Sections
5. Storage Bins

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 3. Storage Types - Definition
Storage Type: Warehouse Number Subordinate Organizational Units
It subdivides Warehouse Number in different units
(For spatial or organizational reasons)

Storage Type 001 Storage Type 004

High Rack Finished Goods
Storage Type 003
Semifinished Goods
Storage Type 002
Low Rack

Warehouse Number 001

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Table of contents

1. Warehouse Structure Overview

2. Warehouse Number
3. Storage Types
4. Storage Sections
5. Storage Bins

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 4. Storage Sections

Storage Section: They subdivide Storage Types for different reasons:

− Fast moving items in accesible storage sections
− Group Items with similar handling requirements
− …

Warehouse
Number

Storage Type Storage Type Storage Type

Storage Section Storage Section Storage Section Storage Section

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Table of contents

1. Warehouse Structure Overview

2. Warehouse Number
3. Storage Types
4. Storage Sections
5. Storage Bins

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 5. Storage Bins
Storage Bin: Exact location where a Material is placed (lowest level)
( They can be created in the user Menu or in Customizing )

Identified by unique Coordinates

Storage Bin 001 Storage Bin 003

Storage Bin 002 Storage Bin 004

Aways created within a Storage Type

Storage Type 001

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Other
Warehouse
Organizational Units
Table of contents

1. Warehouse Layout
2. Staging Areas
3. Doors
4. Work Centers

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 1. Warehouse Layout
Warehouse Layout

Storage Type 1 – Raw Materials Storage Type 2 – Finished Goods

Door 1 Door 2
Receipt Other Issue
Staging Work Centers Staging
Work Work
Area Area
Center Center
Deconsolidation Packing

Storage Type PSA – Semifinished and Production Supply Area

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Table of contents

1. Warehouse Layout
2. Staging Areas
3. Doors
4. Work Centers

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 2. Staging Areas
Staging Area: Space near Warehouse Door for temporary storage of products

It Will be assigned to a specific Door

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Table of contents

1. Warehouse Layout
2. Staging Areas
3. Doors
4. Work Centers

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 3. Doors

Doors: Location within the Warehouse through which the Materials enter or exit
(It is an Organizational Unit)

- Multiple Doors can be defined for each Warehouse

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1. Warehouse Layout
2. Staging Areas
3. Doors
4. Work Centers

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 4. Work Centers
Work Center: Location where some Warehouse activities are done
− Packing
− Deconsolidation
− Quality Inspection
− Counting
− Packing
− Value-added Services (VAS)
− …

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Quants
Table of contents

1. What is a Quant?
2. Differences with WM Quant

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 2. What is a Quant? (1)

Quant: Material Quantity in a Storage Bin grouped based in some criteria

Quant 1 Quant 2

Mat1 Mat1 Mat2 – Batch 1

Storage Bin 001 Storage Bin 002

Mat2
Mat2 Mat2 – Stype Q
Mat2 Quant 4

Storage Bin 003 Storage Bin 004

Quant 3
Storage Type 001
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2. What is a Quant? (2)

• The criteria based in what a Quant groups a quantity

of Materias are:
− Material Number
− Stock type or Category
− Special Stock Assignment
− Plant and Storage Location
− Batch Number (where used)

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Table of contents

1. What is a Quant?
2. Differences with WM Quant

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 2. Differences with WM Quant

• WM Quant contains Location Information, but not EWM Quant

• WM Quant contains Document Type Information, but not EWM Quant

• In EWM they can be seen in table /SCWM/QUAN

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Warehouse Structure
In EWM vs in WM
 1. Wharehouse Number
Warehouse Number

WM EWM

- 3 Characters Code - 4 Characters Code

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 2. Storage Section
Storage Section

WM EWM

- Mandatory - Not Mandatory

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 3. Storage Type
Storage Type

WM EWM

- Storage Type must be defined

- SU concept replaced by HU
SU or non-SU managed

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 4. Handling Unit Management Functionality
HUM Functionality

WM EWM

- HUM activated at Storage - HU and non-HU funtionality

Location level allowed in same Storage Type/Bin

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 5. Storage Bin
Storage Bin
WM EWM

- Max Bin Length is 10 - Max Bin Length is 18

- No unique Bin Number in WH - Bin Number must be unique in WH

- Dynamic Bins are possible - No Dynamic Bins

- 1 posible Fixed Bin by Material - Multiple Fixed Bins by Material

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Business Partners
 1. Business Partners
Business Partner: Individual, Organization or Group of persons which contain
the necessary data needed by Warehouse Transactions

- Vendors
- Customers
BP - Others Plants
- Third Party Suppliers
Roles - Freight Forwarders
- Carriers
- …

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 1. Business Partners - Roles
Tcode: BP

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Supply Chain Unit

 1. Supply Chain Unit
Supply Chain Unit: Physical or Organizational Unit to be used with one or
more business functions within a Logistical Process
(Receiving Office, Shipping Office, …)

- General: Header Data (i.e. Global Location Number)

structure - Address Data: Address Data of the Location/SCU

- Business Character: One or more Business Characters

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 1. Supply Chain Unit
Tcode: /SCMB/SCUMAIN

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Party Entitled to Dispose,

Owner
And
Custodian
 1. Roles

Owner: Owner of the Stock (Inventory in its Statements)

Custodian: Owner of the Warehouse (Physical Access to the Material)

Party Entitled to Dispose: It tells the Custodian what to do with Material of

certain Owner

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2. Possible Scenarios (I)

1
Plant 1

Warehouse

Plant 2

- OWNER => Plant or Plants

- CUSTODIAN => Plant or Plants
- PARTY ENTITLED TO DISPOSE => Plant or Plants

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2. Possible Scenarios (II)

2
Plant 1
Logistic Service
Provider
Warehouse
Plant 2

- OWNER => Plant or Plants

- CUSTODIAN => Logistic Service Provider
- PARTY ENTITLED TO DISPOSE => Plant or Plants

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2. Possible Scenarios (III)
3

Plant 1
Vendor 1
Warehouse

Plant 2
Vendor 2

- OWNER => Vendors (Consignment)

- CUSTODIAN => Respective Plants
- PARTY ENTITLED TO DISPOSE => Respective Plants

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2. Possible Scenarios (IV)
4

Plant 1 Logistics
Vendor 1
Service
Provider
Plant 2 Warehouse
Vendor 2

- OWNER => Vendors (Consignment)

- CUSTODIAN => Logistics Service Provider
- PARTY ENTITLED TO DISPOSE => Respective Plants

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2. Possible Scenarios (V)
5

Plant 1
Customer 1
Warehouse

Plant 2
Customer 2

- OWNER => Respective Customer

- CUSTODIAN => Respective Plants
- PARTY ENTITLED TO DISPOSE => Respective Plants

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2. Possible Scenarios (VI)
6

Plant 1 Logistics
Customer 1
Service
Provider
Plant 2 Warehouse
Customer 2

- OWNER => Respective Customers

- CUSTODIAN => Logistics Service Provider
- PARTY ENTITLED TO DISPOSE => Respective Plants

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Material Master
and
Product
 1. Material Master and Product
MATERIAL MASTER PRODUCT
❑ Transferred from Material Master

❑ Contains all Material fields for the ❑ Contains additional EWM

rest of modules but also two EWM specific views:
views:
- Properties
- Unit of Measure
- WM Execution
- Classification
- Packaging Data
- WM Packaging
- Storage
- Warehouse Data
- Slotting
- Storage Type Data
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Activity Areas
 1. Activity Areas
Activity Area: Logical grouping of Bins focused on activities performed in
these Bins
(Picking, Putaway, Physical Inventory, …)

- It is used to determine the Warehouse Order Creation Rule

- It is used for the Queue Determination

Functions
- It can group Bins from different Storage Types

- Sort Sequence must be maintained for Bins

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Packaging Specification
 1. Packaging Specification
Packaging Specification: It details how the Product will be packed

- Quantities at each level

- Number of Levels

It includes - Steps and their Sequence at each Level

- Packaging Materials

- …
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2. Structure
Header

Product
Contents

Pack. Spec.

Element 1: Pack Mat. & WorkStep

Level 1
Element Group 1
Element 2: Pack Mat. & WorkStep

Level 2
Element Group 2
Element 1: Pack Mat. & WorkStep

Level n
Element Group n
Element n: Pack Mat. & WorkStep

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Handling Unit
 1. Handling Unit
Handling Unit: Physical unit which groups goods quantities or other Handling Units
Its main purpose is the identification of the products and facilitating the movements

- Identification number
- Dimension
- Weight
- Volume
It includes
- Status
- Products and quantities
- Packaging Material or Container
- Packaging specification

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 2. Structure

SIMPLE HU NESTED HU
Header

HU1 HU1

HU2 HU3
Product 1

Product 2

HU

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Warehouse Request
 1. Warehouse Request
Warehouse Request: Document in EWM which enables the processing of a
movement or posting change for a product

- Picking (Goods Issues)

- Putaway (Goods Receipts)
It can enable - Posting change
- Stock transfer (within warehouse)
- Scrapping

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Warehouse Task
 1. Warehouse Task
Warehouse Task: Physical unit which groups goods quantities or other Handling Units
Its main purpose is the identification of the products and facilitating the movements

- Identification number
- Dimension
- Weight
- Volume
It includes
- Status
- Products and quantities
- Packaging Material or Container
- Packaging specification

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2. Types

PRODUCT WT HU WT
Warehouse Warehouse

UdM1

Product WT
Packing

HU WT
UdM1

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Warehouse Order
 1. Warehouse Order
Warehouse Order: Document that represents an executable work package to be
performed at a time
It consists of different Warehouse Tasks or Physical Inventory Items

- It will group WTs based on Activity Area (either of source or

destination bin)

During the - It will sort and filter Warehouse Tasks inside the Warehouse
creation Order

- It will check the Warehouse Order limit

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 2. Structure

SIMPLE HU NESTED HU
Header

HU1 HU1

HU2 HU3
Product 1

Product 2

HU

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Inbound Processing
Process Flow
 1. Inbound Processing
Inbound Processing: Process of receiving goods into the EWM Warehouse
It involves some actions in S/4 HANA and in Embedded EWM

- From an External Vendor (via Purchase Order)

- From another Plant or Facility (via Stock Transfer)

Different
- From the Manufacturing Process (via Production or Process
Sources
Order)

- From a Customer (via Customer Returns)

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 2. Process Flow
S/4 HANA EMBEDDED EWM
1
Purchase Order

2 3
Inbound Delivery (ASN) Inbound Delivery
Vendor (Warehouse Request)

4
Physical Receipt/Unloading

Legends:
6 5
Goods Receipt Posting Goods Receipt Posting Info Exchange

Physical Goods Movement

7
Putaway Process Automatic Interface

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Outbound Processing
Process Flow
 1. Outbound Processing
Outbound Processing: Process of issuing goods from the EWM Warehouse
It involves some actions in S/4 HANA and in Embedded EWM

- To a Customer (via Sales Order)

- To another Plant or Facility (via Stock Transfer Order)

Different
- To the Manufacturing Process (via Production or Process
Destinations
Order)

- To a Supplier (via Purchase Returns)

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 2. Process Flow
S/4 HANA EMBEDDED EWM
1
Customer Order

2 3
Outbound Delivery Outbound Delivery Order
(Warehouse Request)
4
Stock Removal Process
Customer (Picking)
5
Packing/Loading
Legends:

6 Info Exchange
7
Goods Issue Posting Goods Issue Posting
Physical Goods Movement
8
Outbound Delivery Automatic Interface

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Internal Warehouse
Processes
 1. Internal Warehouse Processes
Internal Warehouse Processes: Movements within the Warehouse due to different
causes
They might imply a change in the location (bin) or in product attributes (stock type or category)

- Replenishments

- Ad hoc movements
Different
Movements - Posting changes

- Stock transfers

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