03. Warehouse Management

Warehouse

What is a facility for storing goods used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport, and customs, among others?

SAP Warehouse Management

What does SAP WM stands for?

SAP WM

What is the solution to manage standard warehouses, including stock and storage and bin locations management, picking and packing strategies, and shipping?

SAP WM

What does integrates all the functions of a warehouse and streamlines them?

SAP WM

What controls virtually anything that comes and leaves the warehouse and how fast or slow that is?

1. Monitors stock movement + process differences

2. Manages warehouse structure

3. Manages inventory at storage bin level

4. Allows easy management of potentially hazardous material

5. Processes all transactions carried in the warehouse

What are the specific functions of SAP WM?

SAP WM

What warehouse management system serves as a key component for supply chain management as it offers real-time visibility into an entire inventory in the warehouse and even in transit?

1. Client

2. Company Code

3. Plant

4. Storage Location

5. Warehouse Number

6. Storage Type

7. Storage Section

8. Picking Area

9. Warehouse Door

10. Allocation Zone

11. Shipping Point

12. Storage Bin

What are the organizational structure of SAP WM?

Client

What is the independent environment in the system?

Company Code

What is the smallest organizational unit where a legal set of books can be maintained?

Plant

What is the operating area of a branch within the company? It can be a manufacturing, distribution, purchasing, or maintenance facility.

Storage Location

What is the organizational unit allowing differentiation between the various stocks of material in a plant?

Warehouse Number

What identifies a complex, physical warehouse structure within the warehouse management system?

Warehouse Number

What is the highest level or organizational unit in warehouse management?

Storage Type

What is a subdivision of a complex and physical warehouse?

Storage Type

What is identified by its warehousing techniques, the form of the organization, or its function?

Storage Section

What is the logical or physical subdivision of a storage type?

Storage Section

What groups a series of similar storage bins?

Picking Area

What groups storage bins together from the standpoint of picking strategies?

Warehouse Door

What marks the point where the means of transport change to internal transportation?

Allocation Zone

What is the temporary storage of goods that have just arrived or will be shipped soon?

Shipping Point

What is responsible for the type of shipping, the necessary shipping materials, and the means of transport?

Storage Bin

What is the smallest addressable unit in a warehouse, which identifies the location in the warehouse where goods can be stored?

Storage Bin

What is the lowest level of organizational structure?

1. Storage Bin Master Data

2. Material Master

3. Hazard Master Data

4. Batch Master Data

What are the master data involved in SAP WM?

1. Warehouse Level

2. Storage Type Level

What are the two different organizational levels Storage Bin Master Data has?

Warehouse Level

Which contains all indicators and fields valid for the whole warehouse?

Storage Type Level

Which contains all indicators that are only valid for specific storage types?

1. General Data

2. Storage Bin Data

3. Status

What are the three types of data a Storage Bin has?

Quant

What is the smallest addressable unit of measurement for a material in SAP S/4HANA?

1. General Data

2. Stock Data

3. Block Indicator

What are the three types Quant has?

Material Master

What contains all the information of a company needs to manage a material?

Material Master

What is used by most components within the SAP system?

Hazard Master Data

What stores the data concerning hazardous materials such as flammable liquids, toxic, and radioactive materials?

Batch Master Data

What is the subset of material or homogenous series of unreproducible units with a unique specification?

1. Transfer Posting

2. Stock Transfer

What are the different types of Goods Movement in SAP WM?

Transfer Posting

What type of good movement occurs during Stock-to-Stock, Material-to-Material, and Consignment-to-Warehouse organizational levels?

1. Storage Location to Storage Location

2. Plant-to-Plant

3. Company Code to Company Code

What are the three organizational levels of a Stock Transfer; type of good movement?

Storage Location to Storage Location

Which transfer is it wherein stock is transferred between two storage locations within a plant?

Plant-to-Plant

Which transfer is it wherein stock is transferred between two plants belonging to the same company code?

Company Code to Company Code

Which transfer is it wherein stock is transferred between two plants assigned to different company codes?

Transfer Posting and Stock Transfer

What type of good movement should not involve a physical good movements and what is the one that there will always be physical good movement?

1. One-Step Procedure

2. Two-Step Procedure

What are the two different procedures for Goods Movement?

One-Step Procedure

Which procedure for goods movement does two steps simultaneously during a stock transfer?

Two-Step Procedure

Which procedure for goods movement shows two separate steps during a stock transfer?

Stock Transport Order

What is the purchase order used to request or instruct a plant to transport material from one plant to another, within the same corporate enterprise?

Purchase Order

What is the same as a stock transport order since these are technically purchased goods from the other plant, but it is a transport because the plants are under the same company code?

Stock Transport Order

What allows delivery costs incurred due to the stock transfer to be charged to the material transported?

1. Posting Change Notice (PCN)

2. Transfer Requirement (TR)

3. Transfer Order (TO)

What are the other concepts encountered in WM Process Management and Control?

Posting Change Notice (PCN)

What is generated by posting change process in WM-administered stocks?

Posting Change Notice (PCN)

Which also has similar functionalities to Transfer Requests which record the information based on the type of change, the purpose of transport, the category of request, and the target system?

Transfer Requirement (TR)

What is the request to transfer materials at a particular time from a source storage bin to a destination storage bin in a warehouse complex?

Transfer Requirement (TR)

Which represents the expected and scheduled Goods Movement in WM?

Transfer Requirement (TR)

What is generated by postings in inventory management and consist of a transfer request header and line items?

Transfer Order (TO)

What is the central documents for WM?

Transfer Order (TO)

Every material movement requires a […].

Transfer Order (TO)

Which has no difference between real and logical movement?

Transfer Order (TO)

The creation of […] depends on its preceding document, such as a transfer request, posting change notice, outbound delivery, or an inbound delivery?

Transfer Order (TO)

What creation can be manual, direct, and automatic?