Digital4 Academy Inbound Process
Inbound Process Flow
Inbound Delivery Process
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Inbound Delivery Process
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Decentralized EWM v/s Embedded EWM Simple Inbound Processing in EWM
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Inbound Process Steps
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(SAP SCM EWM)/
Step SAP ERP (ECC or S/4 HANA) Remarks
(SAP S/4 E EWM)
Create Purchase Order
Or
Scheduling Agreement
Or
1 Create Stock Transfer Order
Or
Customer Returns
Or
Manufacturing (Prod.) Order
Advanced Shipping Notification (ASN) from supplier via EDI will automatically create Inbound
Advanced Shipping Notification
Delivery
2 Or Distributed to EWM
Or
Create Inbound Delivery (IBD)
Create Inbound Delivery (IBD) manually if EDI is not used to communicate with supplier
Replica of ERP Inbound Delivery with same document number is created in EWM
Note: it is applicable only with Decentralized EWM
Inbound Delivery
3 Pre-requisites in EWM
Notification (IDN)
1. Delivery Document Integrated with ERP
2. Delivery Type for IDR
3. Item Type for IDR
System creates ID with reference to IDN (PPF action is triggered to copy IDN to IBD)
or
System creates EWM - IBD with reference to ERP - IBD (PPF action is triggered to copy)
It is also called Warehouse Request & it is the initial EWM document with own Number Range
4 Inbound Delivery (IBD)
All subsequent actions (documents) with reference to IBD
Pre-requisites
1. Strategy Definition
2. Warehouse Process Type
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3. Warehouse Order Creation Rule (WOCR)
Goods Receipt in GR Zone (Interim Storage)
5 Goods Receipt Posting Stock type F1
PPF action is triggered to update GR Posting in ERP
MT: 101+ / Plt: PL01 / SLoc: RD01 / Account Postings
Pre-requisites in EWM
6 Goods Receipt (GR) Posting 1. Delivery Document Type
2. Item Document Type
3. Interim Bins
4. Availability Group configuration
5. Warehouse Process Type
Putaway in final storage
Quality Inspection, Packing/Repacking & VAS
7 Stock Posting
Stock type F2
PPF action trigger Transfer Posting
MT: 411 / Plt: PL01 / SLoc: AF01
8 Transfer Posting
From SLoc RD01 to SLoc AF01
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Warehouse Logistics and Inventory Management
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Goods Receipt & Goods Issue
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Product Flow in the Warehouse
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Decentralized EWM v/s Embedded EWM Decentralized EWM Outbound Flow
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