Warehouse Management - Goods placement efficiency in bin level

[suwandi_cahyadi]

Hi Experts,

We have a situation faced by the client that the time and effort needed take some goods in the warehouse for a certain order is not efficient. This is because the location of the goods in the bin level are far from each other.

Is there a solution in SAP Warehouse Management to this challenge? If yes, then how it works and how to implement this.

Regards,

Suwandi C.

[MANIS · Accepted solution]

time and effort needed take some goods in the warehouse for a certain order is not efficient  - This is more towards business / operation issue, Couple of point before looking at technical solution

1) When you mentioned time and effort for some of the product does this mean fast moving or slow moving product if yes then did you classified your prouduct as fast or slow moving has that been defined into system, if yes then you can use Slotting & Rearrangement functionality to get the desired result. Have a look on the below mentioned link to get an idea

http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2009/06/07/ewm-slotting-2/

[suwandi_cahyadi]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I'm new to Warehouse Management.

But based from the answer that you give, what I imagine is that:

- First we need to fix the put away and picking strategy in the warehouse to fulfill our requirement. That is to put some of the products that are usually related to each other (when product A is issued, usually product B is also issued for the same delivery) in a close location. Is there a standard put away/picking strategy provided by SAP for this? Or should we use a user-defined strategy? What kind of logic should we use for this if we use user-defined strategy?

- Second, we need to do a re-arrangement of the on-going product placement in the Warehouse Management to a new effective placement. What are the process the we need go through for warehouse re-arrangement? I think first SAP should be able to analyze where the effective placement to each product should be, so we know where to move the product to the new bin location. Next we can do the re-arrangement of the product physically at the warehouse.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Regards,

Suwandi C.

[former_member183610]

Hi,

That is to put some of the products that are usually related to each other (when product A is sold, usually product B is also sold) in a close location.

In EWM, we have one functionality called consolidation group ( logical grouping of the products ) , which can maintain to group of bins ( either from a single storage type 'or' multiple storage types ) along with Activity areas.

if we want to go with primary bins concept, we can set the primary storage type at first in storage type search sequences for putaway/picking strategies.

Means , always system can search to place the products in this primary storage type , if the space ( bins ) are not available, then it can search to place the products in other storage types.

The same can be applicable to picking also...

Second, we need to do a re-arrangement of the on-going product placement in the Warehouse Management to a new effective placement. What are the process the we need go through for warehouse re-arrangement?

in EWM, we can rearrange the products with marinating ' Evaluate Warehouse Item' ( simply say slotting index ) for storage types within the storage type search sequences for putaway/stock removal strategy.

once we run the rearrangement , system checks 'Evaluate Warehouse Item' and propose the optimized storage type.

This 'Evaluate Warehouse Item' ,we can use up to storage bin determination also.

higher numbers indicate a worse position compared to the optimal location.

C K Reddy

[former_member183610]

Hi Suwandi ,

We can use the Replenishment functionality to reduce the efforts and time consumption for picking the goods.

Here , you can divide the storage area in to primary bins & reserve bins, accordingly maintain the minimum ,maximum & replenishment quantity for the product in the primary area ( two options available to maintain the replenishment 1. Bin level 2. storage type level )

But, need to evaluate the order quantity before deciding the MIN & MAX quantity in the primary bins.

this is the good option for the on time deliveries to customers and we can manage the movement of the goods from reserve area to primary area as internal process, without effecting the deliveries.

C K Reddy