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SAP Extended Warehouse Management
(SAP EWM)
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Activity Area
Definition
Logical section of the warehouse that groups storage bins based on defined warehouse activities.
Examples of activity areas include:
Putaway
Picking
Inventory
Use
You use activity areas to provide logical subdivisions in your warehouse. In these activity areas, different warehouse workers
execute certain warehouse activities, such as putaway or picking.
You create activity-dependent bin sortings within an activity area. Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) uses these bin
sortings to optimize the execution of warehouse tasks.
Structure
An activity area consists of one or more assigned storage bins.
You can define the assigned storage bins using the following attributes:
Aisle
Stack
Level
Bin subdivision
Depth
Information about the storage type
Any assigned deconsolidation groups
You can sort these storage bins into any sequence you want, and assign as many activities to them as you require.
For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse ManagementunderMaster Data Activity
Areas Assign Storage Bins to Activity AreasandDefine Sort Sequence for Activity Area .
Note
To be able to work with activity areas, you have to generate the bin sorting.
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management Master Data Storage Bin Sort Storage
Bins.
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You can generate activity areas from storage types in Customizing. For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Master
Data Activity Area Generate Activity Area from Storage Type . In this case, the activity area has the same storage bins as
the storage type.
Integration
EWM generates warehouse orders for each activity area.
When EWM generates warehouse tasks, it considers the activity area and copies attributes from this activity area, such as the
deconsolidation group.
Storage Bin
Definition
A storage type consists of a selection of storage spaces, which are called storage bins in Extended Warehouse Management
(EWM). The storage bin is the smallest spatial unit in a warehouse. Therefore, the storage bin represents the exact position in the
warehouse where products are and/or can be stored.
Since the address of a storage bin is frequently derived from a coordinate system, a storage bin is often referred to as a coordinate.
For example, the coordinate 01-02-03 could be a storage bin in aisle 1, stack 2, and level 3.
Use
To each storage bin, you assign the warehouse number in which the storage bin is located. You just also assign a storage type and
storage section to each storage bin.
You can also define the following additional attributes for a storage bin:
Maximum weight
Total capacity
Fire-containment section
Storage bin type (for example, for large or small pallets)
In some putaway strategies, the storage bin type plays an important role during optimization of the automatic search for a
storage bin, in connection with the pallet type. For example, you can define the putaway strategy in such a way that you put
away large industrial pallets into special large bins, and smaller pallets into small bins.
For information about defining storage bins, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under
Master Data Storage Bins .
Structure
You can use any combination of letters and numbers for storage bin coordinates. However, you should ensure that you orient the
parts of the structure to the indicators defined for the warehouse for aisle, stack, level, and so on.
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