Shop floor warehouse - work cell

If a shop floor warehouse is used for an individual work cell, various warehousing settings are not required. For this purpose, you must select the Work Cell option in the Used at field of the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session for this warehouse.

Consequently, various settings are preset and unavailable in these sessions:

  • Warehouses (whwmd2500m000)
  • Item Data by Warehouse (whwmd2510m000)

Warehouses (whwmd2500m000)

  • Lead times are unavailable.
  • The Business Partner field is unavailable and the Inventory Management check box is selected and unavailable, because inventory management is not handled by an external party.
  • The Usage at Warehouse Transfer field is unavailable and set to Always.
  • The External Site field is set to No, because the shop floor warehouse belongs to the current company.
  • The buy-from, ship-from, ship-to, and sold-to business partner fields are not applicable.
  • The WMS Controlled check box is cleared and unavailable.
  • The fields in the Labels tab are unavailable, because the inventory is used within the work cell and therefore labels are not required.

  • Only these supply systems are available:

    • Time-Phased Order Point

    • Kanban

      For either supply system, you must specify a supply-from warehouse. This warehouse must be located in the current company.

Note: 

For shop floor warehouses in general, locations and elaborate shipment procedures are not required. Therefore:

  • The locations fields are unavailable.

  • In the Shipments tab, these settings are preset and unavailable:

    • The Generate Shipments field is set to Per Exact Planned Delivery Date/Time.
    • The Shipment Interval Lower Boundary field is set to 0 (zero) days.
    • The Add Orders Based On field is set to Time of Picking.
    • The Update Shipping Material Account during field is set to Not Applicable.
    • Delivery notes and packing slips are not applicable.

Item Data by Warehouse (whwmd2510m000)

  • Storage zones are not used, therefore the Storage Zone field is unavailable.
  • The Issue Priority field is set to Owned Inventory First.
  • For the Usage at Warehouse Transfer field, the Always and No options are available. This is because transfers are only allowed within the same company, planning cluster, or enterprise unit.
  • The Use Item Ordering Data check box is cleared.
  • Lead times are unavailable.
  • Service levels are not applicable.
  • For the Order Method field, the Lot for Lot and Fixed Order Quantity options are available.
  • Economic order quantities are not applicable.

  • Only these supply systems are available:

    • Time-Phased Order Point

    • Kanban

      For either supply system, you must specify a supply-from warehouse. This warehouse must be located in the current company.

  • The reorder point is not applicable, because this is not used for the allowed supply systems Time-Phased Order Point and Kanban.
  • The Assembly Kit and Trigger-from Station fields are unavailable, because these are only used for supply system Order Controlled/SILS and Order Controlled/Single.
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