In SAP EWM, products can be put away directly or through the use of storage control. Storage control determines how product movements are performed in the warehouse. Storage control executes complex putaway or stock removal process steps in the warehouse based on the warehouse processes or the physical layout of the warehouse.
In addition to the basic process of receiving a product quantity into the warehouse and putting it away in a storage bin, many warehouses have additional processing requirements including the following:
Unloading
Counting
Quality inspection
Deconsolidation (unpacking into individual HUs)
Kitting
Value added services
EWM Putaway and Picking Process
The EWM putaway and picking process takes into account your warehouse arrangement (for example, putaway using identification points in a high rack storage area) as well as the process-oriented rules and process flows as defined in Customizing, such as counting requests and repacking.
There are two forms of storage control:
Process-oriented
Layout-oriented
You can use a combination of process-oriented and layout-oriented methods for storage control. During putaway or stock removal, an individual process step can be executed on a single level basis or a multilevel basis (that is, through intermediate storage types). SAP EWM always determines the process-oriented storage control first. The layout-oriented storage control then checks whether the sequence of process steps is possible in layout view, and if required, adjusts the flow of the putaway or stock removal.