Picking has to happen from single bin instead of multiple bins

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

During picking, I don’t want to pick from multiple bins if a bin has stock to fulfil outbound requirements.

NOTE: I already have same products in multiple fixed bins.

1. Is there any possibility for doing this requirement in the Standard one? If yes, how can I do this? If no, please let me know how to do it?

2. Do I have to create new sort field for the strategy?

Please give me some idea about how to go about it.

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Jey

[MANIS · Accepted solution]

System suggest picking based on the Stock removal rule(FIFO/ LIFO) and as per the rule if system is able to find the stock from the first bin then it will suggest picking only from that. if after picking picking from first bin still requirement qty > picked qty then it will propose picking from another bin.

If the standard is not meeting your requriment then you can write your own piece of code in BADI /SCWM/ES_CORE_RMS also have a look on the below link for more detail

Storage Bin Determination for Stock Removal - SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) - SAP Libr...

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Manish,

Thank you for nice piece of information which will help me to do the enhancement further.  Have been waiting for which BADI to use, you rightly suggested one.  Thanks again, will try to execute it and will confirm once it is done.

Regards,

Jey

[Former Member]

Hi Jey

EWM gives you flexibility in defining your own picking strategy based on fields in /SCWM/AQUA (quant table). Define stock removal rule with field QUAN(available qty) with descending sorting. This will sort all quants selected based on decreasing order of available qty. This configuration will come close to meeting your requirement without any development.

Best Regards

Phani sai MN

[Former Member]

Hi Jey

Please note my comment to use available qty in descending order will not be optimal solution. Especially when most of orders are small qty compared to highest qty in bin.

Development is good option. We did similar development in WM. i.e Pick a quant with matching qty. If not found go for partial picking, which frees up your warehouse bins.

Best Regards

Phani

[Former Member]

Hi Phani,

Thank you for your response,

Can you please share some ideas on the same, because i'm new to this kind of scenario..

Regards,

Jey

[Former Member]

Hi Jey

It depends on warehouse priorities. In our case warehouse had space constraints & FIFO was not must. So emphasis was on picking full pallets 1st. For remainder qty, pick partial pallets starting from smallest quantity. By this we are limiting creation of partial pallet out of a full pallet. Also releasing several bin positions occupied by partial pallets.

For your case BADI should have code to get all quants on available qty in descending order into a internal table. Check if there is matching quant for pick qty. If found use this for WT creation.

Else allocate picking qty to 1st quant of internal table. If picking qty is fully supplied store information in internal table for WT creation. If not, allocate remaining pick qty to 2nd quant. Repeat this till pick qty is exhausted. Store source bin, quant, qty to be picked from above iteration in internal table. Use this for WT creation.

You can optimize it further by checking for matching quant after every iteration

Just an example. You can optimize it even better Based on client requirements. Hope this helps.

Best Regards

Phani