Integrating SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud SAP EWM - Production Integration Processes

In this scope item, you manage the staging and consumption of components from the warehouse to production, as well as the receiving and storage of finished products from production into the warehouse. The user triggers material staging, which leads to the creation of an outbound delivery that is replicated to SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM).

The corresponding Outbound Delivery Order (ODO) in SAP EWM serves as the main document for material staging. A warehouse clerk creates warehouse tasks for staging with reference to the ODO. The warehouse worker moves the goods to the production supply area and confirms the warehouse tasks. A goods issue is automatically posted by the system. The stock is transferred from the SAP EWM-managed storage location to the production storage location and is now available for consumption.

After the production process is finished, the generation of Expected Goods Receipts (EGR) documents initiates the receiving of the finished goods from production into the warehouse.

• Support your high-volume warehouse operations with an integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and on-premise SAP EWM.
• Manage stock on a storage bin level.
• Integrate warehouse execution tightly with manufacturing operations, using a delivery-based production integration.

For a graphical overview on the business process of the scope item SAP EWM Integration - Delivery-Based Production Integration (2VM), refer to the SAP Signavio Process Navigator as described in the lesson The Impact of Warehouse Management.

The following SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition business roles are used for this scenario:

• Production Planner (Planned Independent Requirements, MRP, and conversion of planned order to production order)
• Production Supervisor (Review and release of production order)
• Production Operator (Staging, confirmation of production order)
• Inventory Manager (Check of material documents)
• Warehouse Clerk (Check of stock)
• Receiving Specialist (Check of inbound delivery)
• Administrator Data Replication (Transfer between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and SAP EWM)

• Create control cycle for SAP EWM:

  The material staging from production is always triggered by the production system using control cycles. In this case, the control cycle refers to an SAP EWM-managed storage location.

• Initial stock upload:

  To simulate the stock available, a corresponding file is uploaded to the system.

• Create Planned Independent Requirements:

  Planned Independent Requirements are requirements calculated by the demand planner expecting upcoming customer requirements, for example, via sales orders. Using these requirements, it is possible to start the production in advance.

• Material requirements planning at plant level

  To cover the requirements, material requirements planning takes place, considering the secondary requirements of components.

• Evaluate stock/requirement situation

  The production scheduler checks the stock/requirement situation.

• Convert a planned order to a production order

  When production is ready to start, the planned order is converted to a production order.

• Review material availability status for the production order

  Work on the production order can only start when all requirement components are available. A material availability check is carried out for this purpose.

• Release production order

  When all items are available, the order can be released.

• Material staging for production order

  The material components have to be staged from the warehouse. By triggering the material staging, via the control cycle, the system triggers the staging in the external SAP EWM system.

• Check stock situation

  The stock situation is checked in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system.

• Check goods movement for outbound delivery for production supply

  The transfer order posting is assigned to the outbound delivery for production supply in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system.

• Confirm production operations:

  After staging of the material components, production can continue. The workers confirm the operations of the production order.

• Generate Expected Goods Receipt (EGR) document:

  Before finishing the production order, the goods receipt has to be posted. The produced components should be stored in the warehouse. For this reason, an EGR document is created to trigger the inbound delivery creation on the SAP EWM side.

• Check material document

  Posting the goods receipt in SAP EWM leads to the replication of the goods receipt in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system, creating a material document.

• Check inbound delivery

  An inbound delivery has also been created in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system by the SAP EWM processing. This delivery shows the process from the inventory management side.