Multi warehouse shipment - shipment building

When the shipment procedure is launched for picked or released goods from a subwarehouse, the shipments are built according to the properties and settings of the main warehouse. subwarehouses

These fields from the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session impact shipment building and transport planning:

  • Generate Shipments
  • Shipment Interval Lower Boundary
  • Shipment Interval Lower Boundary Unit
  • Shipment Interval Upper Boundary
  • Shipment Interval Upper Boundary Unit
  • Add Orders Based On
  • Update Shipping Material Account during
  • Delivery Note
  • Reset Delivery Note Number

For subwarehouses, the values of these fields are taken from the main warehouse. Therefore, in the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session, these fields are unavailable for subwarehouses.

Warehouse locations

If location control applies, the application does not use the staging locations of the subwarehouses when building shipments.

Handling units

Handling units are consolidated if the package definitions and handling unit templates match of the main warehouse match those of the subwarehouses.

A handling unit present for a shipment can be a multiwarehouse handling unit if the items of the shipment lines originate from different warehouses that share the same main warehouse. For more information, refer to the Multiwarehouse shipment example. Each bottom-level handling unit can contain items from a different shipment line.

Shipping documents

If used in the shipment procedure, the shipping documents list the ship-from address or ship-from code of the main warehouse.

Delivery date, distance, and lead time calculation

During the entry of, for example, a sales order, the calculation of the planned delivery date is based on the warehouse specified on the sales order. This is the warehouse in which the sold goods are stored. This can be a sub or a main warehouse. The delivery dates are based on the lead times specified for the warehouse and the distance between the warehouse and the business partner.

During shipment building, after the goods are picked, the application calculates the delivery dates of the main warehouse. These delivery dates are based on the lead times of the main warehouse and the distance between the main warehouse and the business partner.

Quantities not shipped

Unshipped quantities can be returned from the staging location of the main warehouse to the bulk location of the subwarehouse from which the quantities were issued through a transfer order.

Transfer orders between two subwarehouses are not handled through the main warehouse.

Move shipment lines to shipment

If the application does not combine some of the shipment lines into the shipment, you can move the shipment line to the shipment as long as the ship-from code and ship-from addresses of the shipment lines match those of the shipment. This applies to both Warehousing and Freight.

Freight

To support consolidation of shipment lines containing goods from different warehouses into one shipment, you must link the main and subwarehouses involved to a shipping office and the planning groups of the shipping office. Warehouses are linked to shipping offices and planning groups in the Shipping Office (fmfmd0680m000) session. Consequently, the main warehouse is used as the source of the ship-from information of the freight orders and freight order lines, which in turn are used as input for loads and shipments.

If the multiwarehouse shipments functionality is supported, the application inserts the address and the ID of the main warehouse in the ship-from address and ship-from code fields of the freight order. The freight order lines and the shipment lines display the warehouse from which the items originate. If the multiwarehouse shipments functionality is supported, this is a subwarehouse.