SAP EWM offers two ways of scheduling route departure times, which can be configured for different combinations of warehouse number, document type and document category:
In this article I describe how routes are used in outbound deliveries in SAP EWM and answer the following questions:
This article is about a concept and an object in SAP EWM called the availability group. To be honest, I would have put the availability group in the organizational structure section, but SAP itself assigned it to the goods receipt processes. To understand what an availability group in EWM is, you first need to understand the organizational structure of SAP ERP.
Most warehouses are unique and have a structure of their own. That structure has to be reflected in SAP EWM accordingly. For this purpose SAP EWM provides such concepts and objects as Warehouse Number, Storage Type, Storage Section, Storage Bin, Quant and Activity Area. As a hierarchy they can be shown as follows:
In this closing article I will sum things up and briefly go through the steps SAP EWM performs when creating a warehouse order once more. The steps are described in more detail in WOCR – part 1 and WOCR – part 2.
