Storage location control_ SCM630
Describe the functions of storage location control in Warehouse Management
. Set up storage location control
. Use storage location references
Business Example
Your company wants to make sure that goods receipts are only available to sales
once the putaway is complete.
Purpose of Storage Location Control
Generally, you can use the storage location control function if Inventory
Management for your materials is in several storage locations, for example
because the stocks have different owners. However, you can also use a storage
location to map processes more exactly as part of storage location control, even
without a separate Inventory Management function. The goal is either to control
storage location to storage location posting changes, which are necessary in goods
receipt and goods issue processes regardless of the situation, or to steer stocks in
certain storage locations to certain storage types and to pick stock from specific
storage types.
Storage location control can, for example, be used to mark goods receipts as stock
in a separate storage location until such time as the putaway is completed in
Warehouse Management on confirmation of the transfer order. This is particularly
advantageous for goods receipts for purchase orders, work orders, and other
activities because it means that even those who do not have any access to the stock
overview in Warehouse Management can always see which (partial) stocks they
can access. For example, a worker who calls the storage location stocks from the
sales order sees stock in the goods receipt area or stock en route to the destination
storage type as .unrestricted use. stock, even though it cannot be removed from
storage immediately.
In figure 31, a storage location (0220) is created for the sole purpose of goods
receipt postings. Storage location 0120, generally used for picking, is flagged as a
standard storage location in Customizing for Warehouse Management. Putaway
storage location 0220 is not transferred to the transfer requirement created
as a result of the goods receipt posting because the stock should be assigned to
storage location 0120, not storage location 0220, on completion of the putaway.
Therefore when the transfer order is created for the putaway, the system fills the
document field Storage location (empty in the transfer requirement) with the key
of the standard storage location 0120. The posting change from 0220 to 0120
occurs either in the course of the transfer order confirmation or in a separate step
on completion of the putaway. This means that for the duration of the putaway
process, the stock for putaway is either not visible at all or clearly visible as stock
that cannot be picked, depending on the configuration of the availability check.
You can set up a similar scenario for production supply.
Note: If you want to use Warehouse Management for refilling staging
containers as part of the KANBAN solution in production control
(PP-KANBAN), then storage location control is required because the
KANBAN staging storage location is always different from theWarehouse
Management source storage location.
Storage Location Reference
If you want to put away stock from a particular storage location into a certain
storage type and then pick the stock from the same storage type, you can work
with a storage location reference. You define this indicator in Customizing for
Warehouse Management, assign it to a plant / storage location / warehouse number
combination, and then use it to influence the search for a putaway or picking
storage type.
If you use Handling Unit Management, you can use the storage location reference
if packaged and unpackaged stocks are stored in the same warehouse number.
Note: If Handling Unit Management is in use, the inventory for packaged
stocks has to be managed in its own specially-marked storage location.
The storage location reference therefore allows you to split storage location stocks
at storage type level.
Figure 32: Storage location reference: splitting stock at storage type level
