01st December 2023

- By Yogesh Rajendra Agarwal

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WAREHOUSE ORDER CREATION RULE (WOCR)

As the name suggests, it is a Rule to bundle various Warehouse tasks into a Warehouse Order.

This Rule has some criterions listed down below:

SORT RULES LGWT – It has Sort Field WEIGHT (ascending Order)

By default, if the checkbox is not ticked – it means ascending.

ITEM FILTER FIL1 – It has restrictions of filtering WTs less than or equal to 5KGs
LIMIT LIM3 – It will limit the total number of WTs per WO, in our case the same can be less than or
equal to 2 WTs per WO.

SAP EWM standard gives 3 WOCRs:

1) DEF (Default) – Uses SORT RULE ‘PIPA’ (Field is PATHSEQ in ascending manner)
2) UNDE (Undefined) - Uses SORT RULE ‘PIPA’ (Field is PATHSEQ in ascending manner)
3) MFS (Material Flow System) – Limits a maximum of one WT per WO, makes sense since
these WOs would be operated by machines which are capable of only executing one task at
one point of time.

WOCR Determination:

1) Either it is explicitly specified in the Warehouse Process Type (WPT)

2) It is determined at ‘Define Search Sequence of Creation Rules for Activity areas’

EWM FINDS WOCR AT WPT EWM FINDS WOCR AT THE RULE IS FINAL RULE
LEVEL (WCR1) ACITIVITY AREA LEVEL (WCR1) SATISIFIED DETERMINED
YES NA YES WCR1
YES NA NO DEF
NO YES YES WCR1
NO YES NO UNDE
NO NO NA DEF
IF THE STORAGE TYPE IS RELEVANT FOR MFS (STORAGE TYPE ROLE ‘J’), THE WAREHOUSE TASKS WOULD
HAVE THE MFS FIELD ‘KZSUB’ AS X (MFS RELEVANT). IN THIS CASE, THE WOCR DETERMINED WOULD BE
MFS.
TEST CASES:

1) We have 6-line items, with respective quantities shown against each:

2) The six-line items are converted in to 7 warehouse tasks (you can ignore why line 50 above is
split in two WTs of 3 each, as I am also wondering 😊)

3) Since we have now 7 WTs, with weights as below:

WT1 – 101007 1 KG
WT2 – 101008 2 KGs
 WT3 – 101009 3 KGs
WT4 – 101010 5 KGs
WT5 – 101011 3 KGs
WT6 – 101012 3 KGs
WT7 - 101013 7 KGs

4) NOW THE WOCR MACHINE WILL START WORKING TO CONVERT THESE 7 WAREHOUSE TASKS
INTO WAREHOUSE ORDERS:
5) FIRST A SORT RULE WILL BE APPLIED THAT WOULD ARRANGE THESE WTs in ascending
manner:
WT1 – 101007 1 KG
WT2 – 101008 2 KGs
WT3 – 101009 3 KGs
WT5 – 101011 3 KGs
WT6 – 101012 3 KGs
WT7 - 101013 7 KGs
WT4 – 101010 5 KGs
6) ITEM Filter would flush out the tasks more than 5 KGs, we would be left with below WTs:
WT1 – 101007 1 KG
WT2 – 101008 2 KGs
WT3 – 101009 3 KGs
WT5 – 101011 3 KGs
WT6 – 101012 3 KGs
WT4 – 101010 5 KGs
7) The Limits would create 3 WO now, since each WO can have a maximum of only 2 WTs:
WO1 WT1 – 101007 1 KG
WT2 – 101008 2 KGs
WO2 WT3 – 101009 3 KGs
WT5 – 101011 3 KGs
WO3 WT6 – 101012 3 KGs
WT4 – 101010 5 KGs

WO1

WO2
 WO3

8) What will happen to the 7th Warehouse Task – WT7:

WT7 - 101013 7 KGs
Since this WT is not able to satisfy the WOCR at WPT level

EWM FINDS WOCR AT WPT EWM FINDS WOCR AT THE RULE IS FINAL RULE
LEVEL (WCR1) ACITIVITY AREA LEVEL (WCR1) SATISIFIED DETERMINED
YES NA YES WCR1
YES NA NO DEF
NO YES YES WCR1
NO YES NO UNDE
NO NO NA DEF
IF THE STORAGE TYPE IS RELEVANT FOR MFS (STORAGE TYPE ROLE ‘J’), THE WAREHOUSE TASKS WOULD
HAVE THE MFS FIELD ‘KZSUB’ AS X (MFS RELEVANT). IN THIS CASE, THE WOCR DETERMINED WOULD BE
MFS.
The yellow highlighted line above is satisfied, so the WOCR ‘DEF’ is determined
9) What is this DEF Rule?
Ans. It is an in-built SAP EWM Rule named ‘Default’ which ensures that the SORT Rule PIPA is
used.
The above Include /SCWM/LWHO_MAINF16 in the program /SCWM/SAPLWHO_MAIN is
the place where this Default Rule is getting picked up from.
To explore more, please put a breakpoint in the program before processing the delivery for
warehouse task and order creation.
What is SORT Rule PIPA used by DEF and UNDE?
 Ans. PIPA is a rule that has the field PATHSEQ assigned to it.

In this example, we cannot see PIPA in action since PATHSEQ is same for all WTs.

10) Now, the example for UNDE where I do not assign the WOCR at WPT but at Activity
Area/Activity level:
Before

Now, we delete the highlighted value of WOCR in WPT and maintain the same at Activity
Area level:
The WOCR would be now maintained at Activity Area/Activity level:

Test Case:

As seen, line item 10 in the EWM delivery has 10EA, which is equal to 10 KGs, now we create
the WT for the same:

This is an attempt to understand some aspects of WOCR in SAP EWM, I will try to produce a
Video for the same, and share soon.

Lot of things still needs to be explored:

 PIPA/CONS sort rules

 Packing Profile/ Packing Profile for Shipping HUs in WOCR
 Sorting Rule within a warehouse order
  Preparation Time
 CAP compatibility
 Creation Categories in WO and what’s it is used for

If you would have read till this point, and if you are aware of these pointers above – please help me
find answers. Also, you can share custom requirements in your project for the WOCR.

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