SAP Extended Warehouse Management - Customizing SAP EWM

Explore the structural elements of the SAP CM EWM system and learn to set up and customize storage types, storage sections, activity areas, and mass generate storage bins.

Explore the warehouse topology in SAP extended warehouse management, defining the warehouse number, storage type, storage section, storage bin, activity area, and quant to manage stock locations and attributes.

Learn how to set up and copy warehouse number customizing in SAP EWM, including defining the warehouse number, assigning defaults, and maintaining weight, volume, time units, and the factory calendar.

Discover how the supply chain unit in SAP EWM holds country, region, time zone, and address data, and how SKU 1001 maps to a production plant.

Explore SAP EWM storage types and storage type roles, including standard storage types, identification points, pick points, staging areas, doors and yards, and automatic warehouse with MFS.

Explore storage sections within a storage type to group bins by slow or fast moving goods, improve put-away, and consider reachability; some setups make storage sections mandatory.

Learn how storage bins serve as the smallest, unique warehouse locations, defined by coordinate templates with C/N/A signs, enabling automated bin creation via storage type, aisle, stack, and level.

Define storage bin types to set physical conditions such as maximum weight, volume, and capacity, and use templates to mass-create bins or assign types to existing bins.

Define and manage activity areas to partition the warehouse into logical units, assign storage bins, and optimize tasks with customizable storage bin sorting for put away, picking, and physical inventory.

Customize SAP EWM warehouse doors in the CM system, selecting inbound, outbound, or bidirectional doors and linking them to staging areas for loading and unloading.

Learn how sap ewm uses two product views—the product master and the warehouse product—to enable warehouse handling, put-away, and stock removal, tied to warehouse number and disposal status.

The entitled to dispose represents a plant as a business partner in SAP EWM, linking the ERP plant number to the supply chain unit and enabling stock and inbound/outbound deliveries.

Explore sap ewm handling units and customizing settings, including packaging material types, packaging groups, and handling unit types, plus warehouse and storage type checks for guided operations.

Learn to customize the SAP EWM warehouse monitor by dragging and dropping nodes, adjusting hierarchy, and creating custom nodes with object classes, categories, and node profiles.

Explore SAP extended warehouse management warehouse process types and their determination in the IWM warehouse process, and learn to describe their use and configure process type determination.

Define warehouse process types and explain how they manage and control physical movements and posting changes in the warehouse, with movement types linked by a reference movement type in SAP.

Explore how warehouse process types in SAP EWM control movements, shaping put away, stock removal, and internal relocations, and how they tie to storage types, bins, and layout process controls.

Learn how warehouse process type determination indicators in the warehouse product maintenance view group products for shared processes, guiding goods receipt and goods issue to direct put away or relabeling.

Explore how SAP EWM determines warehouse process types during warehouse request creation by applying item-level logic and field-based hierarchies, including document type, item type, delivery priority, and warehouse number.

Explore customizing warehouse process types in SAP EWM by examining definitions, activities like pick, and control settings for stock removal and put-away, plus the determination table.

Explore how warehouse process types in SAP EWM influence operation options and performance, and why customizing them can boost speed by optimizing access to warehouse tasks.

Think before you customize or code; how not to IWM warehouse shows why separating orders by document type and using dedicated warehouse process types is essential for performance and monitoring.

Explore the inbound process and goods receipt in SAP EWM, detailing storage types, storage sections, availability groups, and the mapping of storage locations to groups, plus storage bin determination indicators.

Explore how inbound deliveries flow in a decentralized SAP IWM setup, creating inbound delivery notification, validating master data, triggering PPF actions, and determining warehouse process types for goods receipt.

Learn how availability groups connect stock types to ERP storage locations in SAP EWM, enabling automatic stock type changes and reinforcing the Rod AFS principle.

Explore the rod principle in sap ewm: how ready on dock and available for sale stock types (f7, f8) govern goods receipt, put away, and warehouse task posting.

Illustrate the AFS principle in SAP EWM by creating and confirming a warehouse task that auto posts from F7 to F8 through a storage type and availability group.

Master storage bin determination in SAP EWM's inbound process by configuring storage type and storage section search sequences, put away indicators, and hazardous goods checks to guide warehouse task creation.

Review how storage type and storage section search sequences drive storage bin determination, and see how the DWM iterates through entries until a suitable bin is found.

Explore put away strategies and put away rules in SAP extended warehouse management to optimize destination bin selection. Learn how to set up and customize these strategies across storage levels.

Explore storage type settings in SAP EWM to define put away strategies based on product characteristics and storage section conditions, including storage behavior and put away rules.

Explore the overview of put away strategies in SAP EWM, from manual input to fixed bin assignment, empty bin, pellet storage and bulk storage, with customization and requirements noted.

Learn how the put away strategy manual input sets destination by storage type (not a specific bin), with customizing settings for storage behavior and put away rules.

Implement fixed bin assignment by configuring IWM strategy settings, enabling fixed bin use and setting the maximum number of bins, then assign fixed bins to products and enable capacity checks.

Set up the put away strategy for the general storage area by applying a put away rule and enabling mixed storage with a single bin per storage section.

Explore the putaway strategy for additions to existing stock, showing how the system selects a destination bin or finds the next empty bin while considering capacity and mixed storage rules.

the empty bin putaway strategy directs each warehouse task to an empty bin, ideal for material flow systems, with storage behavior set to standard and put away rule empty bin.

Explore the pallet storage put away strategy using storage bin sectioning by handling unit types K17 and K18, with customization and put away rules for pallets in SAP EWM.

Learn how to choose and implement putaway strategies in SAP EWM, considering handling units vs loose stock, batches, storage types, and the need for stock removal and FIFO implications.

Explore sap cm basic customizing, linking elements of sap ewm, and implement outbound processes, warehouse order creation, and physical inventory, with a post processing framework and a performance guide.

Explore the outbound process in SAP EWM, detailing involved documents, stock removal rules, and warehouse process type determination, and learn to create an outbound delivery.

Explain the decentralized outbound process in SAP EWM, where an ERP outbound delivery transfers to the CM system and becomes an outbound delivery order, with master data checks.

Master decentralized outbound process mapping in SAP EWM by translating ERP data into CM delivery requests through document type, item type, date, and partner role mappings.

Configure outbound stock removal by defining warehouse process type 2010 with category two and pick activity. Set up warehouse process type determination to map outbound orders to this process type.

Determine the correct stock pickup by configuring storage type search sequences and stock removal indicators in SAP EWM for outbound delivery orders.

Learn how SAP EWM determines stock removal with storage type rules and sorting templates within storage type search sequences, including FIFO, LIFO, and expiration date.

Explore the basics of warehouse orders in SAP extended warehouse management and the determination of warehouse order creation rules. Learn to set up these rules in the CM system.

Explore how warehouse tasks are bundled into warehouse orders to optimize outbound picking, guided by creation rules that consider weight, volume, and item attributes.

Explore how to customize warehouse order creation in SAP EWM by grouping stock removal tasks into warehouse orders using activity areas, item filters, and subtotal limits.

Learn how profiles configure the warehouse order creation rule in SAP EWM by attaching filters, limits, and attributes to optimize warehouse order bundling and task flow.

Sorting, filters, and limits customize warehouse orders by defining up to 15 sorting fields, ascending/descending options, and item or subtotal filters with limit values to shape task bundling.

Determine warehouse order creation rules by configuring activity area and process type 2010, using a sequence to select the first applicable rule and fall back to subsequent rules as needed.

Learn how to customize SAP EWM warehouse order creation rules, including sorting rules and fields, filters, limits, packing profiles, and the system's search sequence.

See how upfront package planning creates three planned handling units for a wave, then a packing profile with a one handling unit limit yields three warehouse orders and their tasks.

define and use queues in sap ewm by assigning warehouse tasks to logical queues, enabling resource management and orderly distribution of warehouse orders and workload.

Explore the physical inventory process in SAP extended warehouse management to align stock with book inventory, including inventory documents, types, configuration, the difference analyzer, tolerance groups, interfaces, and reports.

Explore SAP EWM physical inventory: compare storage bin based and product based inventories, and count free stock, blocked stock, and quality inspection stock across inventory and activity areas.

Explore the three physical inventory methods in SAP EWM—annual, continuous, and cycle counting—alongside low stock, zero stock, and put away checks.

Master the difference analyzer in SAP extended warehouse management to monitor inventory differences between CM and ERP stock and post adjustments as material documents.

Define tolerance groups in SAP EWM to control posting of inventory differences, assign monetary or percentage tolerances, and link groups to users to secure physical inventory counting and posting.

Explore reports and transactions for physical inventory, including uploading storage bins and counting results, downloading prices, syncing ERP data, and posting differences via the difference analyzer and background schedules.

Explore how to create, count, and post a physical inventory document in SAP extended warehouse management, using storage bin specific documents, pack transactions, and handling units.

Explore the SAP EWM database tables used to create, count, and post physical inventory documents, including header data, key items, quantities, and storage bins.