No dimensional information for products

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Have you deal with a warehouse where no good dimensional data exist for products? and what did you use to maximize utilization?

As a background, I'm working in oil and gas and we've a lot of irregularly shaped spare parts and it gets difficult to maximize utilization.

Thanks

[Ajit_Routray]

Hi malmeani,

If you do not have Goods dimension data, then use "capacity" parameter where you can calculate logical formula for placement of goods into bins and then maintain the values in bin master, product master.

Please go through below links for example and let us know if you have any difficulties.

https://help.sap.com/viewer/3d97bec9bf1649099384bb8167df3cf2/9.5.0.2/en-US/73cccb53ad377114e10000000...

https://help.sap.com/viewer/3d97bec9bf1649099384bb8167df3cf2/9.5.0.2/en-US/8cc8cb53ad377114e10000000...

Kind Regards,

Ajit

[Dominik_Tylczynski]

Hello malmeani

Back there is the era of LE-WM I often used transfer order confirmation with ability to change destination bin in cases like yours.

The basis assumption here was that warehouse personel are skilled and knowledgeable people who know how to run their warehouse and who to place stock in storage bin. Another presumption was that all warehouses no matter who big they are, are to small or will get too small soon - just treat that as a rule of thumb, not a hard fact ;))

So I typically customized the system with a best possible placement strategy, that relies on the master data, which can be flawed. The system will propose a destination bin to place the stock, however the warehouse clerk would be able to confirm the TO and either accept the proposed bin or change it as they see fit. That approach actually worked quite well in several implementations.

I'm quite sure the same approach can be used in EWM implementations.

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski