Purpose: As part of 2020 release, SAP introduced harmonized serial number profile. With this profile, only one serial number profile will be assigned to a product on the ERP side in General Plant Data / Storage 2 (Plant data/Stro.2) view. EWM processes read the serialization settings from plant data (MARC) and updates in product master. To....

In below blog, I will describe usage of Graphical Warehouse Layout (GWL) in SAP EWM. Examples and screens comes from SAP S/4Hana 2021 Embedded EWM. Introduction: What is GWL? Graphical Warehouse Layout (GWL) display two-dimension layout of your warehouse. Based on coordinates, you can create full layout of your warehouse/factory. There are some predefined objects....

Definition- The target production supply area (PSA) defines the production supply area of the next production step.It is used if a semifinished product remains in production and is needed for a subsequent production step.     Dependencies-->If the storage location, where the semifinished product is placed upon order confirmation or goods receipt, is not managed by....

The purpose of this blog is to give you some insights about the required configuration and manual steps if you change the ERP system connected to EWM. Business Case If you use a Decentralized EWM system, the database should be connected to an ERP system. It can be an SAP or non-SAP system. Recently, I....

Introduction : To increase the efficiency of the picking process , warehouses are opting picking from fixed bins and when ever required doing the replenishment from the reserve are to fixed bins. So in order to replenish the qty from reserve to fixed bins, businesses are expecting to put away  the stock at near fixed....

Assume a business case in where same product is put away in storage bins as PALLETS and BOXES . But system shows always in base unit of measurement like in each.   Now warehouse requirement is like, In the out bound side whenever Picking WT create for this product, system should split WT as per....

In this blog I would like to explain the basic information on Message queue monitoring in SAP EWM.   INTRODUCTION: Communication between the ERP system and the SCM system is based on the asynchronous transfer technique queued Remote Function Call (qRFC). This technique is used for both the initial data transfer and the transfer of....

  Introduction:    Assume a Situation in a warehouse, where Huge qty of the same product is occupying the first two or three whole storage types which are near to the staging area, to avoid that business  asked to fill few bins per product in each storage type.   So we are going to achieve....

Now a days it is becoming mandatory to print storage bin labels to verify the storage bins while confirming put away and removal tasks, so in this short blog I am going to show how to print the storage bins label in SAP-EWM   The T-Code used to print the storage bins is /N/SCWM/PRBIN Standard....

Introduction: Now a days in most of the business scenarios in complex warehouses want to put away the material in whatever the bin they want (System should not determine the destination bin, instead system should determine till the storage type only). How we are going to achieve this? What are the options available. – To achieve....

Introduction: In few businesses scenario’s warehouse supervisor wants to put away the pallet quantity into multiple bins with his desired quantity (System should not split the warehouse task automatically, its completed user driven) How we can achieve this? To achieve the above requirement, we can proceed with exception code SPPB-Split WT and New Destination Bin for Remaining....

Purpose of the blog To get rid of the failed entries and shrink the overall memory footprint size of ARFCS* and TRFCQ* tables if there are huge amount of failed entries in SM58. If the Log file / Reorganize method of cleaning the SM58 is still not helping to remove unwanted / failed entries then....

Introduction: In real time businesses, we may come across few cases where the bin capacity- Weight is more, and you can accommodate with less weigh of the material or vice versa. To understand better, assume your bin capacity is 1000 kg and each product weight is 1kg, but here the obstacle is you cannot put more....

In this blog, we will learn SAP EWM Technical. In the first part,  read the header and item of the delivery. There are some business cases where we need to write the logic to get the information of deliveries like inbound and outbound. we can utilize the logic in reports, function modules, and classes. A....

The travel distance calculation (TDN) is a very complex functionality in EWM, which needs many data to work properly. The process of completing of all this data is very complicated and lacks on comprehensive visualisation and tools in standard system. Mostly you have to edit or import tables with XYZ bin coordinates, local and global....

In this blog post I would like to share my experience regarding possible performance bottlenecks in EWM which we had to tackle at some projects, especially with high percent of automatization in the process. I would be glad to have some more input in the comments. It is pretty often when Performance is one of....

Introduction: In this blog post you will learn about the Bulk Storage Put away Strategy in SAP EWM. There are some materials that require a large amount of storage space usually stored in bulk Storage areas and in this type of scenarios bulk put away strategy is used. Examples: beverages, tyres and glass products etc.....

From release of 1909, SAP has done a great deal of simplification in area of Manufacturing process related to Kanban which includes a simplified ”Warehouse task-based Integration‘ Kanban functionality. The whole idea of this functionality is to skip lengthy necessity of maintaining the process of outbound warehouse request and warehouse order. With S/4 HANA 2020,....