Warehouse Order Creation Process and Its Benefits
Warehouse Order Creation Process and Its Benefits
Warehouse Order Creation Process and Its Benefits
its benefits
As one of the primary merits of SAP Extended Warehouse Management
(SAP EWM), the Warehouse Order creation is a vital part of the complete
work optimization process in the warehouse. Besides easing the
categorization of the labor, in the background there is a running mechanism
that is looking for the optimum output in return of this labor with the help of
a set of business rules. Before getting into details of the warehouse order
creation, it’s better to talk about the definition of the warehouse orders and
the places they are used.
Then the grouped tasks get sorted according to the rule of Inbound Sorting.
This sorting process gets done according to defined Sort Rules and they
are kept in Sorting Profiles which can hold up to 15 different rules such as
Pick-Path Sorting or Sorting according to the Consolidation group. In
addition, another option here is that the rules like Sort according to the
Consolidation group are applicable in the final form of the Warehouse
orders at the end of the whole creation process.
Filtering can be applied both on the item and the subtotal level and,
according to defined filters, some specific warehouse tasks can be
removed from the groups. For instance, a user wants to create a specific
warehouse order creation rule in a specific activity area for the goods that
can be prepared for the next step in a quick way. Using a filter for the
Processing Times would be good approach to follow. By this way, if SAP
EWM comes across a warehouse task that can consume too much time, it
can directly continue to the next task that is in the queue while not
processing the task at issue.
For this example, the Warehouse Order Creation Rule that should be
applied for the picking Warehouse Tasks (which are grouped by their
Activity Area) basically need to have a Inbound Sorting by Weight in
descending order, a Filtering by Processing Time and Consolidating by
Consolidation Groups which differ from Outbound Delivery Order to
Outbound Delivery Order.