Basic Organizational Units for the Delivery Process

Question 1

Organizational Structures – Shipping and Goods Receipt

Answer 1

A shipping point is an independent organizational unit at a fixed location that processes and monitors outbound deliveries and goods issues. An outbound delivery is processed from a single shipping point. The responsible shipping point is determined in the order at the item level. A single shipping point can process the outbound deliveries of several different plants. However, this practice is only useful if the plants are located close to each other.

A shipping point can also be set as a goods receipt point, which means the shipping points can also be used for inbound deliveries.

Question 2

loading point

Answer 2

The loading point is used to structure shipping. Loading points are defined in Customizing for Logistics Execution and are assigned manually in the delivery document header. If desired, the loading points can be included in the delivery output. Any number of loading points can be assigned to a shipping point but only one shipping point can be assigned to a loading point.

Question 3

Organizational Structures – Inventory Management

Answer 3

You can model the inventory management structure of a corporate group by using clients and company codes.

Question 4

Plant

Answer 4

A plant is an organizational unit for dividing an enterprise according to production, procurement, maintenance, and materials planning.

Assigned to each plant you have one or several storage locations.

can only be assigned to one company code. This way, you can manage stocks and stock values independently for individual companies.

Question 5

Storage locations

Answer 5

Allow differentiation between the various stocks of a material in a plant. Stock is managed at the level of the storage location.

Question 6

warehouse number

Answer 6

the highest level of organizational unit in warehouse management. In practice, the warehouse number usually corresponds to a physical building or distribution center.

Question 7

storage types

Answer 7

different forms in which products are physically stored in a warehouse

• Various types of racks
• Any open storage space
• Goods receipt areas
• Goods issue areas

Storage types are represented as a group of warehouse bins with similar characteristics.

a four character code which is defined when customizing EWM. Storage types have a storage type role, which defines what they are used for. Storage type roles and their purposes are outlined in this table.

It is characterized by:

• Warehouse technologies
• Space required
• Organizational form or function

Question 8

Storage sections

Answer 8

Subdivisions of a storage type. A storage section represents a group of bins that have a common attribute, for example, bins that are used to store fast-moving items. Storage sections are used when determining the putaway storage bin.

for example:

• Heavy parts
• Bulky parts
• Hazardous materials with certain characteristics
• Fast-moving items
• Slow-moving items

Question 9

Storage bins

Answer 9

the lowest level of organizational structure. They are assigned to a storage type and a storage section (if one exists). Storage bins represent the physical location where the goods are stored in the warehouse.

Question 10

Activity areas

Answer 10

used to define bin sorting when warehouse orders are created. According to the activity, the same storage bin can be assigned to multiple activity areas.

You define an activity area for each activity:

• Picking
• Putaway
• Physical inventory

Question 11

quant

Answer 11

the content of a storage bin and is used for inventory management of a product in a storage bin.

Question 12

Warehouse Structure

Answer 12

• Warehouse
  
  • Storage type
    
    • Storage section
      
      • Storage Bin

Question 13

Attributes of a Warehouse Building

Answer 13

The organizational and physical attributes of a warehouse building are entered under the warehouse number in Customizing

• Weight unit of measure
• Volume unit of measure
• Time unit of measure

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Question 14

supply chain unit (SCU)

Answer 14

a physical or organizational unit that models the supply chain of your organization.

In order to identify the owner of the stock, the warehouse number must be assigned to a SCU

Question 15

Connection Between Warehouse Number and Plant and Storage Location

Answer 15

To activate warehouse management in the S/4 HANA system, a plant and a storage location (for that plant) are linked with the relevant warehouse number.

Several storage locations within a plant can refer to the same warehouse number.