Determination of Priority for Inbound Deliveries in EWM?

Determination of Priority for Inbound Deliveries in EWM

Purpose

You use Extended Warehouse Management priority points to achieve an optimal unloading sequence for several trucks at the transportation unit level in the yard. At the same time, EWM updates the inbound delivery until the Warehouse Activities Status is Completed.

Process

1. The ERP system receives an advanced shipping notification (ASN) and creates an inbound delivery.
2. The ERP system notifies SAP APO and Extended Warehouse Management about this.
3. Based on the notification, the system executes the following:
a. SAP APO calculates the priority points at item level.
b. EWM creates an inbound delivery request.

Extended Warehouse Management or you activate the inbound delivery request. Extended Warehouse Management creates an inbound delivery from the active inbound delivery request. The priority points in the inbound delivery are initial (initial value is zero) until SAP APO sends the results of the calculation for an update.
4. SAP APO communicates the calculated priority points to the ERP system, which then communicates them to Extended Warehouse Management.
5. EWM updates the priority points in the inbound delivery. Extended Warehouse Management saves the priority points for an inbound delivery at item level. Extended Warehouse Management calls the Business Add-In (BAdI) /SCWM/EX_DLV_DET_LOAD to display the inbound delivery. This BAdI calculates an aggregated priority at header level.

EWM
6. EWM aggregates the priority points at transportation unit level using the BAdI /SCWM/EX_SR_PRIOP. You can see this on the user interface for unloading. You can start the report /SCWM/PRIOP_UPDREQ for the recalculation of priority points from the SAP Easy Access display, under Extended Warehouse Management → Delivery Processing → Inbound Delivery → Update Priority Points. EWM triggers an asynchronous request for the recalculation of priority points in SAP APO via the ERP system. As with the first calculation (step 4), SAP APO sends the result of this recalculation to EWM via the ERP system. Extended Warehouse Management updates the priority points in the inbound delivery and aggregates the priority points at transportation unit level. For more information, see the report documentation.

Results

SAP APO has calculated the priority points and has communicated this to EWM via the ERP system . Provided the Warehouse Activities status is not Completed, EWM has updated priority points in the inbound delivery.

Printer Determination in Delivery Processing

Purpose

You can use this process in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) to print various documents on particular printers in the different storage sections, for example, in the goods receipt area or goods issue area. EWM uses printer determination in the goods receipt process to print unloading instructions and in the goods issue process to print the delivery note and loading instructions.

Prerequisites

● If appropriate, you have defined a print profile in the default values. To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management → Delivery Processing → Outbound Delivery → Pickup. Choose Default Values and enter a print
profile.
● If appropriate, you have implemented your own printer determination in Business AddIn (BAdI) /SCDL/PPF_ADD_DATA in method GET_PRINTER. For more information,
see the BAdI documentation.
● If appropriate, you have implemented your own print profile determination in BAdI /SCWM/EX_DLV_PRINT_PROFILE. For more information, see the BAdI documentation.
● If appropriate, you have defined one or more print profiles in Customizing for EWM. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Extended Warehouse Management → Goods Receipt Process → Inbound Delivery → Print → Define Print Profiles for Delivery Processing and Goods Issue Process → Outbound Delivery → Print → Define Print Profiles for Delivery Processing.
● If appropriate, you have defined one or more Post Processing Framework (PPF) actions in Customizing for the PPF. For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Extended Warehouse Management → Cross-Process Settings → Delivery Processing → Actions → Change Actions and Conditions → Define Action Profiles and Actions and Define Conditions.
● You have defined print profile determination for the goods receipt process or goods issue process in Customizing for EWM.
For more information, see the IMG for EWM under Extended Warehouse Management → Goods Receipt Process → Inbound Delivery → Print → Define Print Profile Determination for Goods Receipt Process or Goods Issue Process → Outbound Delivery → Print → Define Print Profile Determination for Goods Issue Process.

Process

EWM attempts to determine the printer in the following sequence:

1. EWM checks whether you have specified a print profile in the default values on the user interface for pickup. If so, it uses the name of the printer from this print profile.

2. If EWM cannot find a printer in step 1, it checks whether you have implemented your own printer determination in BAdI /SCDL/PPF_ADD_DATA. If so, it uses this printer.

3. If EWM cannot find a printer in step 2, it checks whether you have implemented your own print profile determination in BAdI /SCWM/EX_DLV_PRINT_PROFILE. EWM uses the printer from this print profile.

4. If EWM cannot find a printer in step 3, it checks whether you have defined a print profile determination for the goods receipt process or the good issue process in Customizing for EWM. EWM uses the printer from this print profile. You can define an access sequence for print profile determination. As a result, EWM considers one or more combinations of different parameters for the print profile, for example, goods receipt office, ship-to location, and warehouse number.

5. If EWM cannot find a printer in step 4, it checks whether you have specified a printer in the user master data. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose System → User Profile → Own Data to specify your own output device in the Spool Control group box on the
Defaults tab page. If EWM does not find a printer, it does not schedule the PPF action for printing.

Printing Delivery Notes

Use

You use this function in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) to print delivery notes.

Prerequisites

You have created either an outbound delivery order or an outbound delivery.

Features

EWM prints the delivery note based on the PPF action /SCWM/PRD_OUT_PRINT for an outbound delivery order or /SCWM/FD_OUT_PRINT for an outbound delivery.

● By default, EWM uses the predefined SAP Smart Form /SCWM/DLV_NOTE. However, you can also create your own SAP Smart Form to use when printing the delivery note and for form determination.

● You can also print delivery notes using a PDF-based form. To do this, you must change the assigned processing of the PPF action from Smart Forms Print to External Communication in Customizing for EWM.

For more information about action conditions, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Extended Warehouse Management → Cross-Process Settings → Delivery Processing → Actions → Change Actions and Conditions → Define Conditions. EWM automatically prints the delivery note for an outbound delivery as soon as you have posted the goods issue. You can also use a PPF action to manually print a delivery note for an outbound delivery or outbound delivery order. For more information about Smart Forms, see the SAP Library under SAP NetWeaver Library → SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability → Application Platform by Key Capability → Business Services → Smart Forms. For more information about form determination, see the IMG for EWM under Extended Warehouse Management → Goods Issue Process → Outbound Delivery → Print → Determine Form Determination for Delivery Note Printing. You can display a preview of the delivery note before printing it. EWM issues the dangerous goods data when printing the delivery note. In doing so, EWM uses detailed information about the route and means of transport to determine the relevant dangerous goods master records. For more information about dangerous goods data, see EH&S Services.

Activities

You have the following options for printing or displaying delivery notes manually:

● Printing or displaying directly using a PPF action .

a. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management → Work Scheduling → Print → Process and Display PPF Actions.
b. Specify the document number in the Application Key field.
c. Choose Execute.
d. Select the line of the required PPF action (/SCWM/PRD_OUT_PRINT or /SCWM/FD_OUT_PRINT).
e. Choose Process.
f. EWM prints the document.

● Printing or displaying from the user interface of the delivery.
a. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management → Delivery Processing → Outbound Delivery and then one of the following transactions:
■ Maintain Outbound Delivery Order (/SCWM/PRDO)
■ Maintain Outbound Delivery (/SCWM/FD)
b. Enter the required document number.
c. Choose Change to switch to change mode.
d. Choose the PPF Actions tab page and select the required action (Print Outbound Delivery Order or Print Outbound Delivery).
e. Proceed as follows:
■ If you want to display the document, choose Preview. EWM displays the document.
■ If you want to print the document, choose Execute Action. EWM prints the document.
You can only process a PPF action once from within the user interface of the delivery. PPF actions with the status Unprocessed have not been processed yet. If you have already processed the PPF action once, you can choose Repeat Action to generate and then process a new, unprocessed print action. Example of Switching from Smart Form Print Forms to PDF-Based Print Forms.

1. Choose the action profile Outbound Delivery and the action Print Outbound Delivery FD_OUT in Customizing for EWM under Extended Warehouse Management → Cross Process Settings → Delivery Processing → Actions → Change Actions and Conditions → Define Conditions.

2. Switch to change mode and make sure that the setting Default Settings from Action Definition is not selected in the Action Definition group box.

3. In the Processing Selection group box on the Processing Details tab page, select the assigned processing Smart Forms Print and delete it.

4. Under Available Processing’s, choose External Communication.

5. Save your entry.