SAP EWM OVERVIEW

Purpose
Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) offers you flexible, automated support for processing
various goods movements and for managing stocks in your warehouse complex. The system
supports planned and efficient processing of all logistics processes in your warehouse.

Introductory Notes
If you manage your warehouse stocks using the application component Inventory Management (MM-
IM), then you manage the material stocks based on quantity and value in several storage locations.
In contrast, EWM gives you the option of mapping your entire warehouse complex in detail in the
system, down to storage bin level. Not only do you gain an overview of the entire quantity of a
material in the warehouse, you can also always determine exactly where a certain material currently
is in your warehouse complex. With EWM, you can optimize the use of various storage bins and
stock movements and can store together material stocks from several plants in random storage
areas. Using EWM, you can control and optimize various processes in the warehouse.
Integration

EWM is completely integrated into Inventory Management and Delivery

Processing. Business processes, which you trigger in other application
components, lead to physical goods movements in your warehouse.
You organize, control, and monitor these goods movements using
EWM.
Features
Storage Bin Management and Optimization
• You map the entirety of your storage facilities in Extended Warehouse Management. You can set
up different storage facilities such as automatic warehouses, high-rack storage areas, bulk storage
areas, or fixed bin warehouses, in various storage types, according to your requirements.
• You manage material stocks at storage bin level. You can define these storage bins according to
your own requirements. Every storage bin in your warehouse is mapped in the system. This
enables you to constantly track all stock movements in detail. You can see exactly where a
specific product is located in your warehouse. You can also use EWM to optimize storage bin
management, since EWM takes on a large part of optimizing the products so that each product is
assigned to the correct storage bin, depending on its size and frequency of access.
• Inventory Management and Extended Warehouse Management are fully integrated. Using the
physical inventory procedures and the entry of stock differences, the system ensures that the
book inventory balance in Inventory Management always matches the warehouse stock in EWM.
• Goods Movements
• You process all goods movements that affect your warehouse using EWM,
such as goods receipts, goods issues, stock transfers, and automatic
replenishment. Other movements can include management of dangerous
goods, layout- and process-oriented storage control, effective work
preparation using automatic wave pick creation, resource optimization
using rule-based bundling of warehouse tasks, or processing of inventory
differences in your warehouse.
• EWM optimizes warehouse capacities and material flows using putaway
and stock removal strategies that you can adjust to your needs, or by you
using handling units.
Work Center

• You can use the work center to map a physical unit in the

warehouse, which you use to carry out warehouse activities such as
packing, deconsolidation, weighing, quality inspections, and
counting. You can personalize each work center, so that each user
sees exactly those fields, data, and tab pages that are necessary for
his or her work.
Physical Inventory
•We use physical inventory to regularly perform a physical stock take in your
warehouse. You compare the actual, existing, physical, material stock with the
data managed in EWM. By entering physical inventory differences, you update
the accounting data for the stock, according to the results of the physical
stock take. If you perform a physical inventory at least once in a fiscal year for
each storage bin/each product, the physical inventory is classed as complete.
•If you use EWM, the physical inventory is performed at Warehouse
Management level. You can perform a physical inventory based on products
and/or based on storage bins. There is a difference monitor available, with
configurable tolerance groups, which you can use to define maximum values
for posting differences for each user. In addition, the system supports
automatic posting according to time intervals, different priorities for each
individual inventory procedure, a zero stock check, and a low stock check. The
RF functions are integrated into the physical inventory and support you when
you perform the different physical inventory procedures, such as cycle
counting, physical inventory during putaway, and physical inventory using
zero stock check. Handling units are fully integrated into the physical
inventory process.
Planning and Monitoring

• EWM gives you an overview of all goods movements and warehouse

stocks. The system supports you in planning, monitoring, and
optimizing work processes. For example, it gives you a preview of the
workloads for the coming days, or enables you to take preventive
action in critical warehouse processes, so that you can perform stock
movements on time. The extensive monitoring functions give you a
current view of all activities in the warehouse. You can control the
actual work in the warehouse using the individual monitors.
Radio Frequency Connection

To structure the work in the warehouse efficiently and cost-

effectively, you control the warehouse workers’ work steps clearly
and simply via mobile radio-frequency terminals.
The radio frequency connection (RF connection) to mobile data entry
achieves fast and accurate data transfer. The RF machines receive
data directly from the SAP system and transfer data back to the
system. You can enter and verify information using bar codes. This
means that you ensure a high standard of quality in your warehouse.
Warehouse Control

• EWM also contains an interface to external systems (warehouse

control units), so that you can integrate automated putaway and
stock removal systems, or forklift control systems, for all stock
movements using this ALE interface in the Warehouse
Management System.
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