Define Movement Types

The system processes Inventory Management movements (for example, goods receipt for a purchase
order or goods issue to a cost center) using movement types. If the SAP system determines that a
movement is relevant for Warehouse Management, it assigns a WM movement type to this movement
via a table.

The movement type for the Warehouse Management system provides the information required for stock
placements and stock removals:

❖ Interim storage type

❖ Coordinate of the interim storage bin

➢ predefined coordinate

➢ dynamic coordinate

➢ fixed bin coordinate

❖ Control indicator for processing, confirming and printing transfer orders

❖ Indicator for storage type search.

For information on the links between the IM and the WM movement types and how to change them,
see the section Movement Types for Interim Storage Bins.

Standard settings

In the SAP standard system, all the relevant movement types are preset.

Recommendation

SAP recommends keeping the movement types delivered with the standard system.

Activities

1. Before you create movement types for a new warehouse number:

➢ start with the configuration for the printer control

➢ delete the print codes

➢ then maintain the print codes when you configure the printer control

2. Create the movement types for each warehouse number using the copy function.

3. Define your own company-individual settings (for example, for the interim storage types) in the detail
screen.
Define Stock Transfers and Replenishment Control

Using a posting change, you can change the material identification of stocks. A posting change affects
at least one of the following items:

❖ material number

❖ plant

❖ stock category
 ❖ special stock

A stock transfer is involved if a quant is moved physically from its storage bin.

Posting changes and stock transfers always take place within a warehouse number.

Standard settings

For stock transfers and posting changes, the movement types in the series "3nn" are at your disposal.

For internal warehouse replenishment, use the WM movement type "319". You can use this movement
type as a copy sample for creating your own movement type.

Activities

1. Check all the movement types for posting changes, stock transfers, and replenishment.

2. Make your own company-required adjustments in the detail screen. For replenishment movement
types, you do not require the definition of the requirement type.

3. If you want to use the functionality "Replenishment for fixed bin warehouse" (using the
report RLLNACH1), you must define the storage types for which replenishment is to be used.

Assign the appropriate replenishment type to the respective storage types.

Confirmation

In this section, you configure the system settings for handling differences and for confirming transfer
orders.

Handling Differences

The system posts differences that you find in the warehouse into a specific difference storage type(for
example, 999) whenever you
 • Confirm a transfer order with differences.

• Perform a manual stock transfer to the difference storage type (for example, 999).

• Perform automatic stock transfer to the difference storage type (for example, 999) after
aninventory with quantity differences.

In the WM system, you can classify differences according to cause (for example, breakage, theft).

Using the difference indicator, you determine the storage type and the storage bin to which the
differences are posted.

For each difference indicator, you can save the percentage value for the deviation allowed, that is,
starting from which the dialog box is to appear. Suppressing the dialog box is appropriate for stock picks
that cannot be done to the exact amount and where the difference is cleared against the stock in the
source bin.

Example

A warehouse worker guesses a 3 kilogram pick for a particular material and determines the actual
weight further away from the bin. In this case, each pick is confirmed with a difference. It would be
appropriate to have the dialog box suppressed so as to save this extra step.

Confirmation Control

One important aspect of confirmation of transfer orders is the setting of the confirmation requirement.
This requirement means additional work for the user, but it also affords a high level of stock and
information security.

The decision as to whether a transfer order item requires confirmation and whether it is confirmed
immediately depends on the parameters you set for your movement types and your storage types.

• At the warehouse number level you define:

o whether there is to be separate confirmation of pick and transfer

• At the storage type level you define:

o whether putaways to this storage type require confirmation
o whether picks from this storage type require confirmation
o whether a zero stock check is to take place for a bin that becomes empty through the
pick
o whether the destination storage bin can be changed during confirmation

• At the movement type level you define:

o whether transfer orders with this movement type can be confirmed immediately
o whether the confirmation requirement is to be proposed during transfer order
generation
o whether single-step confirmation is to be applied although two-step confirmation is set
for the source and destination storage types
o through which screen the transfer orders are to be confirmed.

Confirmation Requirement

As soon as one of the above parameters calls for a confirmation requirement for a transfer order item,
the item must be confirmed.
Immediate confirmation of a transfer order item only works out if

• the respective movement type does not disallow this

• if the storage type from which the materials are picked is not subject to pick confirmation

• if the storage type into which the materials are put away does not have a putaway confirmation
requirement.

Two-Step Confirmation

For two-step confirmation, both storage types involved in the transfer order must be subject to
confirmation.

At the warehouse number level, you define whether transfer orders or TO items are to be confirmed in
two separate steps.

During the confirmation of the first step, you confirm the pick process from the source storage bin. The
source storage bin and the quant are automatically updated. In the quant of the destination storage bin,
only the open transfer quantity is updated at this point.

During the confirmation of the second step, you confirm both the transfer process and also the receipt
of the material at the destination storage bin. Here the source storage bin and its quant are no longer
updated, but only the destination storage bin and the quant stored there.

SAP Recommendation

SAP recommends working with the stock placement and stock removal confirmation functions. The
confirmation procedure is recommended for the following reasons:

• Stock in a storage bin should only be available after the actual putaway has been confirmed.

• Storage bins should only be released for further putaways after the goods putaway in the
destination bin has been confirmed.

• A storage bin that is going to be emptied by a pending stock pick should already be filled with
a putaway before it is really emptied.

• The posting of differences should be executed during the actual confirmation, and not by
means of a separate transfer order.

Include the confirmation process in your organizational procedures.

You can use the bar code for confirming transfer orders. This makes your work much easier.

Activities

1. Decide whether you want to confirm the transfer orders created in the SAP system using the
confirmation procedure.

2. Maintain the difference indicator for differences in TO confirmation.

3. Maintain the indicator "Confirmation control/Warehouse number".

4. Maintain the indicator "Confirmation control/Storage type".

5. Maintain the indicator "Confirmation control/Movement type".