SAP EWM/ DIFFERENT HU TYPE IN THE SAME BIN WITH STORAGE TYPE (PALLETS)

[former_member582714]

Hi,

My customer wants to create storage type (pallets). In function of HU type, the system creates 2,3 or 6 bin sections. This is ok.

But he wants to mix in the same bin HU type A and HU type B, each HU type has a packaging material with different capacities.

Is there any way to solve this in SAP EWM?

[JuergenPitz · Accepted solution]

Hi,

"But he wants to mix in the same bin HU type A and HU type B, each HU type has a packaging material with different capacities."

Not in the standard. The strategy is exactly NOT made for that.

Brgds

Juergen

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[Ajit_Routray · Accepted solution]

Hi Juergen,

I think we can use Additional option mentioned in the screen shot where we can putaway different HU Type in Single Bin.

Please suggest.

Kind Regards,

Ajit

[former_member582714 · Accepted solution]

Hi Juergen, thanks...I supossed, but I wanted to know if there was any solution.

[JuergenPitz · Accepted solution]

Hi Ajit,

yes, technically you can. But it is a sh... idea. The important part is in the "different capacities" thing. The picture above shows that you get three segments for E1, 2 for IP or E2. Now in the standard system an E1 means it is an euro pallet with 1 m height, E2 is an euro pallet with 2 m height, an IP is an industrial pallet. And that means this one has a totally different footprint. While an euro pallet is 120 x 80 cms, an IP according to some definition is 120 x 100 cms (not sure how valid this is globally, but it seems there is even a DIN for this, but this could be german only. In our training system we have defined it 110x110), means it is 20 cms wider. And that is why you can only fit 2 pallets of these types to each other, while from the euro pallet you could actually put 3 in a bin.

That means that you have 3 euro pallets in one bin, the bin is full, if you have two IPs in one bin, the bin is full - and if you have one IP and one E2 in one bin, the bin capacity is not fully used. Now in the example above you can say if I use 2,40 m (3x80) or 1,80 m (100 + 80), so 60 cms is left, does not really matter; but the original poster writes about 6 sections. So how wide are these bins? So you will definitely loose space. And that is why it is a sh... idea.

The next thing... in this type of storage type we assume that above each section you have a tag which shows you which section it is. If you mix different pallet sizes - from the second pallet you can never put it on the "right" section. OK, maybe not a big issue.

Also, what the picture above does not show (and that's why it should not be in the documentation at all, it is actually misleading IMHO): as the E1 and the E2 have the same base footprint (and this is ALL what matters in this strategy), it would make sense to have an entry for E2 to find the SecKey A as well - but this is NOT possible. As Whnr, Storage Type, Bin Type AND HU Type are key fields. So it is not actually a real mix of HU sizes, just a mix of HU types. But this only makes sense if they have the same footprint.

In WM there is a trick to do this. For all SUT (storage unit types) you find the same bin sectioning and you use the capacity of the bin for a control how many SUs you can put away. In EWM this does not work, as the system creates all segments with the putaway of the first pallet and the max. capacity is nicely spread across the segments (at least last time I tried) and the capacity is checked on the segment, not on the higher level bin.

In EWM there is just one way to do this: open storage. You define a storage type as standard storage type, standard behavior, strategy open storage, allow mixed storage. And other that in a "standard" open storage you have several bins and you control the capacity as described above, with the key figure on packaging material.

There might be a possibility to figure out something with a BAdI for a storage type with storage behavior pallet, I wouldn't know which one and why you would do that. Because all the things this storage behavior does, you would't want anyway.

Brgds

Juergen

[JuergenPitz · Accepted solution]

"You define a storage type as standard storage type, standard behavior, strategy open storage, allow mixed storage."

The strategy setting is actually called "4 General Storage Area". In german it is called "Freilager", that's why I always translate it with "open storage".

[JuergenPitz]

"Hi Juergen, thanks...I supossed, but I wanted to know if there was any solution."

Maybe I should have written that differently. But as I explained in the longer answer to Ajit, there is a solution, it is just not by using the storage behavior pallet.

Brgds

Juergen

[Ajit_Routray]

Hi Fran Fernández,

You can use different HU Type in a single Bin . Please read the links .

https://help.sap.com/viewer/9832125c23154a179bfa1784cdc9577a/1909.000/en-US/10cdcb53ad377114e1000000...

Please let us know if you have further questions.

Kind Regards,

Ajit

[former_member582714]

Hi Ajit,

you agree, but SAP has the limitation that you only custom one subdivision per bin type.

And my customer wants for the same bin type, generate one subdivision per hu type.

For example, if it's HU TYPE A, system has to create two bins, and if it's HU TYPE B, system has to create four bins.

And to this, SAP has to verify the capacity of pacaking material.

Thanks Ajit, regards.