Dear Colleagues,

SAP Extended Warehouse Management 9.4 is planned to be released in May 2016 and we offer Early Adopter Care Services to our customers:

• To enroll in the Early Adopter Care program please use the direct link to the SAP EAC Program Extended Warehouse Management 9.4
• What´s New with SAP Extended Warehouse Management 9.4
• General Information about Early Adopter Care Services, the successor of Ramp-Up

Customers who participate in the program will be among the earliest adopters of this software release, and will gain the advantages of being a first-mover in their industry. The customers in the program will also directly benefit from the dedicated efforts of the Early Adopter Care team who will guide the coordinated support and priority attention provided through the program.

All available collaboration and co-innovation programs offered by the SAP Market Introduction team are posted on the Customer Influence Platform.This platform provides a single access point for colleagues, customers and partners to gather information about the programs, subscribe to areas of interest, and submit their requests to join                 individual programs that are open for nominations.

If you have any questions or need more information about the SAP Extended Warehouse Management 9.4 Early Adopter Care Program, please feel free to contact the Early Adopter Program Lead, Georgi Papoutcharovgeorgi.papoutcharov@sap.com

We would like to use this year for a close collaboration with you by many different activities.

Join the customer connection program

The collection phase of the Customer Connection Program for EWM will be closed in few days from now on.

Find further information here

The following Support Packages Stacks (SPS) have been released today as planned

They are available for customers via download from Support Portal.

EWM 9.1 SPS 08               

EWM 9.2 SPS 04               

EWM 9.3 SPS 02 (in RampUp)

TM 9.1 SPS 08                   

TM 9.3 SPS 02(in RampUp)         

EM 9.2 SPS 04   

SAP is proud to announce that SAP Transportation Management 9.3 (SAP TM) and SAP Extended Warehouse Management 9.3 (SAP EWM) is now generally available to customers.

With the introduction of transit warehouse capabilities, logistics companies can manage complex movements of goods from origin, to consolitdation points to destination. It allows to unload, consolidate and load packages instead of products. Further enhancements introduce billing of warehouse services for both, logistics service providers as well as for shippers contracting warehouse services.

The programs will enter immediately the GA Care phase.

If we want to get more information in the delivery of enhanced, but enhanced parameters and no detailed information on the delivery. Then we can judge before the first enhanced system is used Delivery service provider-> Query, if used, we can get detailed information about the delivery with the following code:

  DATA:

  LO_BOM  TYPE REF TO /SCDL/CL_BO_MANAGEMENT,

  LO_BO   TYPE REF TO /SCDL/IF_BO,

  LO_HDR  TYPE REF TO /SCDL/CL_DL_HEADER,

  LO_ITM  TYPE REF TO /SCDL/CL_DL_ITEM_PRD.

* Business Object - Management

  LO_BOM = /SCDL/CL_BO_MANAGEMENT=>GET_INSTANCE( ).

* Business Object

  LO_BO  = LO_BOM->GET_BO_BY_ID( IV_DOCID = IV_DOCID ).

* Abstract Class Header

  LO_HDR = LO_BO->GET_HEADER( IV_DOCID = IV_DOCID ).

* Abstract Class Item

  LO_ITM ?= LO_BO->GET_ITEM( IV_ITEMID = IV_ITMID ).

Planned Shipping Handling Units during Picking

Cartonization Planning (CAP )

Introduction:

This document will guide how the Cartonization Planning tool results in SAP. There is no business process include in this document, Its just Transactional Overviews in SAP.

Cartonization is the process of evaluating the contents of an order to determine the number and size of each shipping carton required for the order. Cartonization normally requires dimensional information (weight, height, length, and width) for each item.

Cartonization planning to improve the creation of shipping handling units (HUs) based on information from product master data and outbound delivery orders, such as quantities, volume, and weight.

Cartonization planning results in the creation of planned shipping handling units (PSHUs) that you can use as templates for creating shipping HUs during picking or packing.

A PSHU is an object similar to a shipping HU, describing a packaging material and the items it contains. In contrast to a shipping HU, a PSHU does not physically exist in the warehouse and is only used to plan shipping HUs.

The system uses PSHUs as a template for creating shipping HUs during either picking or packing

• Handling Unit (HU)
• Picking with Cartonization Planning
• Packing with Cartonization Planning

                         Picking with Cartonization Planning

PSHUs can be created manually and automatically in cartonization planning.

Automatic  PSHUs:

Automatic cartonization planning uses algorithms to create PSHUs. Algorithms are defined as implementations of the Business-Add In BAdI: Cartonization Planning Algorithm.

Process-1:Cartonization Planning During Picking

Case-1:

Automatic cartonization planning to have the system create planned shipping handling units (PSHUs) for pick-warehouse tasks (WTs) during warehouse order (WO) creation. In Picking cartonization planning, the system can use planned shipping handling units (PSHUs) as templates for creating pick-HUs, which you can then use as shipping Hus.

Case 2: Manually Creation PSHUs

SAP EASY Access Extended Warehouse ManagementWork SchedulingCartonization PlanningMaintain Planned Shipping Handling Units

/SCWM/CAP - Maintain Planned Shipping Handling Units

This above PSHU will behave as template to create WT Pick HU during WOCR.

Log after creation of WO:

Case 3: Cartonization Planning for Outbound Delivery Orders ( Picking )

To start cartonization planning for outbound delivery orders, execute the transaction on the SAP Easy Accessscreen under  Extended Warehouse ManagementWork SchedulingCartonization PlanningCartonization Planning for Outbound Delivery Order  or schedule the report  /SCWM/R_CAP_BACKGROUND.

/SCWM/CAPDLV - Cartonization Planning for Outbound Delivery Orders

Execution Mode has option for simulate and delete the PSHUs.

Log of CAP:

Configuration:

1. 1> Extended Warehouse Management under Goods Issue Process Cartonization Planning

Configure Cartonization Planning on Warehouse Number Level

2>Extended Warehouse Management under Goods Issue Process Cartonization Planning.

Define Number Ranges for Identification of PSHUs

3>Extended Warehouse Management under Goods Issue Process Cartonization Planning.

Define Process Profiles for Cartonization Planning

4> Extended Warehouse Management under Goods Issue Process Cartonization Planning.

Define Algorithm Profiles for Cartonization Planning

5>  Define  WOCR

Create Packaging Profile

Extended Warehouse Management under Cross-Process-Settings Warehouse OrderDefine Creation Rule for Warehouse Orders.

Extended Warehouse Management under Cross-Process-Settings Warehouse OrderDefine Packing Profile for Warehouse Order Creation.

Master Data:

SAP Easy Access screen under Extended Warehouse Management SettingsDetermine Algorithm Profiles for Cartonization Planning

Tcode: /SCWM/CAPPDET - Determine Algorithm Profiles for Cartonization Planning

Packing Spec: To determine the Packaging Material

Log Activation:

Badi: Algorthim = SAP1

Here We can add custom code to create PSHU based on business need.

Delete of PSHUs:

SAP recommend to delete obsolete PSHUs regularly i.e., those items are already goods issue.

To delete obsolete PSHUs, on the SAP Easy Accessscreen, choose  Extended Warehouse ManagementWork SchedulingCartonization PlanningDelete Planned Shipping Handling Units  or schedule the report/SCWM/R_CAP_DELETE.

/SCWM/CAPDEL - Delete Planned Shipping Handling Units

Note:

Version: EWM 9.0

Business Function:

SCM_EWM_FND must be activated.

BC Sets need to activate:

1. /SCWM/CAP_WORK_CENTER_LAYOUT(Cartonization Planning: Work Center Screen Configuration)

2. /SCWM/CAP(Cartonization Planning)

3. /SCWM/PRC_TCP1

Any advice, comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Ajit

Next Document:

Cartonization Planning during Packing, Wave and transaction with RF.        

Source: SAP Help Document

Cartonization Planning

Continuation from last document on Cartonization Planning ( Cartonization Planning( CAP ) during Picking ).

Cartonization Planning( CAP ) during Packing

The system uses the PSHUs as templates for proposing packaging materials or destination HUs for shipping HUs while packing at the work center or using radio frequency (RF).

Here in this process,It is only consider the area related to Cartonization Planning.These data is only used for test scenario and no business meaning here with these data.

Process:

PSHU Generate for Outbound delivery Order using below.

execute the transaction on the SAP Easy Access screen under  Extended Warehouse Management>Work Scheduling>Cartonization Planning>Cartonization Planning for Outbound Delivery Order  or schedule the report  /SCWM/R_CAP_BACKGROUND.

/SCWM/CAPDLV - Cartonization Planning for Outbound Delivery Orders

Packing at the Work Center:

SAP Easy Access->Extended Warehouse Management → Execution   → Packing – General

Tcode-/SCWM/PACK - Packing – General

Here in example, It picked the target quantities in 2 Pick Hus and moved to Packing Centre so that System propose first Packaging Material based on   create shipping HU when scan the first Pick HU and then propose destination HU ( which was created while scan first Pick HU ) when scan the second pick HU.

Automatic Pack Material populated from PSHU.

Packing with RF:

Customization:

1>Number Range and Algorithm Profiles for Cartonization Planning are same as previous doc.

2>Extended Warehouse Management under Goods Issue Process Cartonization Planning.

  Define Process Profiles for Cartonization Planning

Master Data:

/SCWM/TWORKST - Define Master Data Attributes

BADI:

Important Note:

  1. The system groups outbound delivery order items that are to be packed together.

During cartonization planning, the system processes each group independently of other groups. Delivery items from different groups are not planned to be packed together in the same HU. The grouping depends on the following criteria:

• Algorithm profile for cartonization planning
• Consolidation group
• Activity area
• Wave (in case of cartonization planning for waves only)

    2. The system can modify the grouping of outbound delivery order items.

This is an optional step. For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Managementunder Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Extended Warehouse ManagementGoods Issue ProcessCartonization PlanningBAdI: Pre- and Postprocessing of CAP Algorithms.

3. The system executes the cartonization planning algorithms to create PSHUs.

    4. The system can modify the result of cartonization planning algorithms.

This is an optional step. For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Managementunder Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Extended Warehouse ManagementGoods Issue ProcessCartonization PlanningBAdI: Pre- and Postprocessing of CAP Algorithms.

Note:

Version: EWM 9.0

Business Function:

SCM_EWM_FND must be activated.

BC Sets need to activate:

   1. /SCWM/CAP_WORK_CENTER_LAYOUT (Cartonization Planning: Work Center Screen Configuration)

   2. /SCWM/CAP (Cartonization Planning)

3./SCWM/PRC_TCP1

Any advises,comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Ajit

Next Document:

Cartonization Planning using Wave.                                                               

Source: SAP Help Document

Cartonization Planning