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Consolidation Group

You can use consolidation groups in the outbound process to determine which delivery items can or
cannot be picked or packed together into a handling unit (HU).

Integration
The use of consolidation groups is determined by the setting of the Packing Consolidation checkbox
of the outbound delivery item, which the system takes over from the Order Combination checkbox of
the outbound delivery in SAP ERP.
If you use Outbound Processing: Transportation Planning in TM-ERP-EWM or Outbound Processing:
Transportation Planning in EWM-ERP-TM, do not use cross delivery HUs in this process. Either leave
the Order Combination checkbox of the outbound delivery empty in SAP ERP, or create a BAdI
Implementation for BAdI Determine Consolidation Group (/SCWM/EX_CORE_CONS), which prohibits
the packing consolidation in EWM.

Prerequisites
You have made the following settings in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management
(EWM):

You have defined if you want to work with consolidation groups in the outbound process of your
warehouse and if so, what attributes influence the creation of the consolidation group per outbound
delivery item. The attributes that the creation of the consolidation group can depend on are the
following:
Warehouse number
Route
Ship-to party
Priority of the delivery item
For more information, see Customizing for EWM under Goods Issue Process Define
Consolidation Group .
You have defined number ranges for your consolidation groups and assigned them to the different
use cases of consolidation groups.
For more information, see Customizing for EWM under the following:

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Master Data Define Number Ranges Define Number Range Intervals for
Consolidation Group
Goods Issue Process Assign Number Range Intervals to Consolidation Groups
In the Customizing of the work center, you have defined on which of the following levels you want to
check the consolidation group during packing.
Check while repacking products
Check while repacking handling units (HUs) and products
No check
For more information, see Customizing for EWM under Master Data Work Center
Define Work Center .

Features
During the creation of outbound deliveries, the system determines the consolidation group for each
delivery item. Depending on the setting of the Packing Consolidation checkbox, the system
determines the consolidation group in the following way:

If the checkbox is selected, the system tries to find an existing consolidation group from the
Maintain Consolidation Group transaction. If there is no appropriate consolidation group yet, the
system creates a new one and adds it to the Maintain Consolidation Group transaction for later
reuse.
If the checkbox is not selected, the system creates a new consolidation group but does not add it to
the Maintain Consolidation Group transaction. Therefore, the new consolidation group cannot
be reused.

After determining the consolidation group for the outbound delivery item, the system transfers it to the
corresponding warehouse tasks.
Depending on the setup of the warehouse order creation rule (for example, on the setting of the value
limit), it is possible to group only warehouse tasks with the same consolidation groups into one
warehouse order or to group warehouse tasks with different consolidation groups into one warehouse
order. If you use more than one planned pick HU within your warehouse order, it is possible to assign
warehouse tasks with the same consolidation group to the same pick HU, while the corresponding
warehouse order can carry warehouse tasks with different consolidation groups. For more information,
see Warehouse Order Creation.
After the confirmation of a warehouse task into the pick HU, the system assigns the consolidation group
to the stock. In case of mixed stock in one pick HU with different consolidation groups, you can execute
a repacking at a packing station to consolidate the stock in terms of packing together only stock with the
same consolidation group into one HU.

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After the confirmation of a warehouse task into a consolidation group unique HU, the HU carries the
information about the consolidation group as well.

Using Consolidation Groups with Transportation Integration

Transportation integration offers you the following features:

When you change the door and the EWM processing has not yet started, the system can
redetermine the consolidation group with the new door.
To use this feature, you have to maintain a separate consolidation group per door. To do so, on the
SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management Master Data
Maintain Consolidation Group .
When you or the system change the transportation unit (TU) assignment of a delivery and the EWM
processing has not yet started, the system can redetermine the consolidation group with the new
data.
To use this feature, you have to maintain a separate consolidation group per TU. For more
information, see Customizing for EWM under Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Extended
Warehouse Management Goods Issue Process BAdI: Define Consolidation Group .

Activities
You have to decide if you want to use consolidation groups in the outbound process.
During picking processes, the system checks whether the picking of warehouse tasks with different
consolidation groups into a pick HU is allowed or not.
During processes of repacking stock or HUs with consolidation groups, the system checks whether they
are allowed or not.
To start the Maintain Consolidation Group transaction, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose
Extended Warehouse Management Master Data Maintain Consolidation Group

Example

Example with Order Combination

In Customizing for EWM, you have activated the consolidation group determination for the warehouse
number, the ship-to party, the route, and the priority. In SAP ERP, you have selected the Order
Combination checkbox in the outbound delivery. You have created two outbound deliveries in the
system within the same warehouse, for the same ship-to party, on the same route, and with the same
priority. Since the Packing Consolidation is selected, EWM assigns all the items of both deliveries to
the same consolidation group. Therefore, all the warehouse tasks created for all those line items belong

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to the same consolidation group. Since all the warehouse tasks have the same consolidation group, you
can pick and pack the requested stock into one HU.

Example Without Order Combination

In Customizing for EWM, you have activated the consolidation group determination for the warehouse
number, the ship-to party, the route, and the priority. In SAP ERP, you have not selected the Order
Combination checkbox in the outbound delivery. You have created two outbound deliveries in the
system within the same warehouse, for the same ship-to party, on the same route, and with the same
priority. Since the Packing Consolidation is not selected, EWM assigns the two deliveries to unique
consolidation groups. Therefore, the items within one delivery belong to the same consolidation group
but the items of the other delivery have a different consolidation group. This means that you cannot mix
the requested stock for the two deliveries into one HU. You can pick and pack only the items of one
delivery together.

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