S/4 EWM

PUTAWAY STRATAGIES
 Putaway Strategies
In Extended warehouse management the system
uses putaway and stock removal strategies to
determine storage bin and stock, each time that
a warehouse task is created the system reverts
to putaway and stock removal strategies
Putaway Goods Receipt

Strategies The system uses putaway strategies and

parameters defined in product master to utilize
the available warehouse capacity by
automatically determining suitable storage bins
for new products.
 • Manual Entry – The system uses the storage bin that you have entered

• Fixed storage bin – The system searches a fixed storage bin

• General storage – The system searches in general storage area

Putaway • Addition existing stock – The system searches for a storage bin that already
contains stock

Strategies • Empty storage bin – The system searches for a empty storage bin

• Near fixed picking bin – The system searches for a storage bin in the reserve
storage type near to the fixed picking

• Pallet storage – The system determines the storage bin in the bulk storage area

• Bulk storage – The system searches for a storage bin in the bulk storage area
Putaway strategies

Manual Entry
The system does not determine a storage section or a storage bin. You enter the destination storage
bin manually when the warehouse task is created. You use this procedure if the search for a suitable
storage bin is performed on-site by the warehouse worker. First the warehouse worker searches for the
suitable storage bin. Then the system automatically determines the data using the storage bin (for
example, the storage type) in the warehouse task

Fixed Storage Bin Strategy

• You apply this strategy if you want to put away a product in fixed storage bins in a storage type. You
use this strategy primarily in storage types from which picking is done manually. You assign fixed
storage bins manually.
• If you want to put away a product without fixed bin assignment in a storage type for which you have
defined the strategy “Fixed Storage Bin”, the system determines a suitable storage bin and assigns it
to the product as a fixed storage bin.
Putaway Strategies

Fixed Storage Bin

The following figure is an example
of a fixed bin assignment. In this
example, warehouse 0001 has
several fixed storage bins: FIX-
AA, FIX-BB, and FIX-DD. Multiple
fixed storage bins can be
available for a product, for
example, FIX-1-BB and FIX-2-BB
for product BB
Putaway Strategies
General Storage
• The system uses this strategy to find a storage
bin in a general storage area. General storage
is a type of warehouse organization in which
you define a single storage bin per storage
section. The quants in the storage bin can also
be in the form of mixed storage. For each
storage type, you can define one or more
general storage areas

• The following figure illustrates general storage.

Two general storage areas (bin XXX and bin
YYY) are available with mixed storage in
storage type 0005. This means that you can
put away product F in bin XXX even though
product X has already been put away there
 Pre requisites for General storage

• You have chosen the Standard Warehouse value in the

Storage Behavior field.
• You have chosen the General Storage Area value in the
Putaway Rules field.
• You have chosen the Mixed Storage Without Limitations
value in the Mixed Storage field.

Putaway • Addition to Existing Stock

Strategies • With this strategy, the system prefers to put away stock in
storage bins that already contain stock of the relevant
product. A prerequisite for addition to existing stock is that
sufficient free capacity still exists in the relevant storage
bin. If the system cannot find a storage bin with the same
product or if the storage bin does not have sufficient free
capacity to store additional quants, the system searches
for the next empty storage bin
• This strategy violates the FIFO principle. For this reason,
you should only use this strategy in situations where you
have insufficient space.
Putaway Stratagies

The following figure shows an

example of addition to existing
stock. You want to put away
product AA. Since AA is already
occupying a storage bin and free
capacity is still available, you
can add the product to the
existing stock
 Prerequisites for addition to stock stratagies
• You have chosen the Addition to Existing
Stock/Empty Bin value in the Putaway Rules
field.
• You have specified in the Addn.Stock Forbidden
field whether or not you want to allow additions
to existing stock.
• If you want to allow additions to existing stock,
Putaway choose “ ” (Addition to existing stock permitted)
or “M” (Addition to existing stock via addtn ID in
Stratagies product master). If you choose “M”, you must
choose the required value for the Addit.to
Exist.Stock indicator in the product master.
• You have chosen a method in the Capacity
Check field to activate the capacity check.
• You have chosen the value 3 in the Mixed
Storage field (one HU allowed per bin, in other
words, mixed storage is not permitted).
 Empty Storage Bin strategy

With this strategy, the system proposes an

empty storage bin. You can use this strategy to
support warehouses that are organized
randomly, where products are stored in
individual storage sections. This strategy is
especially suited for high rack storage and shelf
Putaway storage

Stratagies Prerequisistes for this stratagy

• You have chosen the Empty Bin value in the

Putaway Rules field.
• Optionally, you can change the sort sequence of
the storage bins that has an effect on the
determination of the empty storage bin under
SrchRule Empty Bin
 Near Fixed Bin Strategy

• You use this strategy when you put away products in a

reserve storage area. This strategy is intended for
situations where reserve storage bins of a reserve storage
type are located directly above the fixed storage bins in a
picking storage type (nearby reserve)
• You can configure whether the system checks if a fixed
storage bin is available. You can set up your system in
Putaway such a way that it first searches for a fixed storage bin in
a picking storage type. If it does not find an empty bin, it

Stratagies then uses the Near Fixed Picking Bin strategy to search
for a bin in a reserve storage type that is as close as
possible to the fixed storage bin of the product
• The system first tries to find a reserve storage bin in the
stack where the fixed storage bin is located. Here the
system starts on the lowest level and works its way up. If
it does not find an empty bin, it searches to the right of
the fixed storage bin and then to the left in the same
aisle, before searching in the adjoining aisles. Here it
always searches from the bottom upwards.
 Near Fixed Storage Bin Strategy

• If multiple fixed storage bins are available for

the product in the picking storage type, the
system takes the first fixed storage bin that it
finds as the starting point

Prerequisites for Near Fixed storage Bin strategy

Putaway • You have chosen the Empty Bin or Addition to

Stratagies Existing Stock/Empty Bin value in the Putaway
Rules field.
• You have chosen the Near to Fixed Bin value in
the SrchRule Empty Bin field.
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Pallet Storage Strategy
• Using this putaway strategy, the system
processes different HU types (for example,
pallets) and allocates them to a suitable
storage bin section. One storage bin is often
divided into several smaller sections. You can
only put away the same HU types in a storage
bin.
• The following figure shows the “Pallet Storage
by HU Type” strategy. For example, a storage
bin can accommodate multiple pallets
depending on the size of the pallet, such as
three euro pallets (80 x 120) or two industrial
pallets (100 x 120). A storage bin may be able
to accommodate a single oversized pallet or
several very narrow pallets.
 Pallet Storage Strategy

With this strategy, you define the maximum

number of quants for each combination of storage
bin type and HU type. The first time that the
system puts away products in this storage bin, it
determines the storage bin sectioning that it
assigns to the storage bin. The system also
determines which and how many HUs it can put
Putaway away in the storage bins

Stratagies Prerequisites for Pallet storage strategy

• You have chosen the Empty Bin value in the

Putaway Rules field.
• You have activated the HU type check.
• You have chosen the Mixed Storage Without
Limitations value in the Mixed Storage field
Putaway Stratagies
Bulk storage Strategy
Products such as tires, glass products,
and drinks that come in large quantities
and require a large amount of storage
space are often stored in bulk storage
Advantages
• Reduced need for physical storage bins
• Fast access to the containers
• Clear structuring of the warehouse (into
blocks and rows)
• This strategy searches for storage bins
in bulk storage.
 Bulk Storage Strategy

Other Advantages
• Freely defined co ordinate structures
• One storage Bin per row
• Different HU types

• Mixed storage
• Automatic blocking per row

Putaway Prerequisites for Bulk storage Strategy

Stratagies • You have chosen the Addition to Existing Stock/Empty Bin value in the Putaway
Rules field.
• You have chosen the Addition to existing stock permitted value in the
Addn.Stock Forbidden field.
• Do not activate the HU type check and do not choose a capacity check method.
A capacity check and HU type check are not necessary in bulk storage because
an internal check is carried out based on the block structure definition.
• Choose the required option in the Mixed Storage field. For more information
about the permitted combinations, see the relevant field help.
 Putaway Determination Techniques
• The EWM system obtains the source storage location storage
type and bin from the warehouse process type. It then has to
determine the destination putaway location based on
determination tables in customizing.

Storage Type Determination

• The first step in determining the destination location is the

Putaway •
determination of the destination storage type.
System obtains the information from inbound delivery

Strataegies document ( Entitle to dispose/stock type) warehouse product

master ( putaway control indicator) hazardous substance
master data and packaging specification to determine the
storage type search sequence code.
• The storage type search sequence code contains the list of
storage types that can be searched for bins. The system
assigns the first storage type in the determined storage type
search type search sequence
• If the storage type determined contains more than one
storage section the system will then proceed to determine
the storage section to be assigned in the destination location.
 Optimize Access Strategy for storage type search
Various indicators influence the storage type search, if you
use the putaway strategies from the product master and the
product appear with different stock type or are managed in
special stock (such as sales order sock)

To reduce number of entries you can define an access

strategy for the storage type search table. Using this access
strategy the system searches the relevant entries as follows in
the storage type search table

Putaway • The system checks whether there is a group assignment for

the following entries
•
Stratagies The system first attempts to read a fully qualified entry, in
other words, an entry with all the relevant indicators from
the product master and - where available - the dangerous
goods master, in the storage type search table
• If the system cannot find an entry in the storage type search
using the fully qualified access, it attempts a generic access
according to the optimization maintained in this activity.
During a generic access, the system only reads qualified
attributes that are set in the relevant data record in the
optimization table. All other attributes are initialized. In
other words, the system only finds data records where these
attributes are also initial
 Storage Section Search

• Create storage section Indicators

The storage section indicator divides products
into groups with the same characteristic
Putaway attributes, for the putaway process in various
storage sections. You can use the storage
stratagies section indicator to assign specific product
groups to specific storage section search
sequences
• The storage section indicator can be defined
manually in product master or can be determined
automatically by slotting
 Storage Bin Determination

• Define the Storage bin types and assign them in

the storage type.

Putaway • If after checking all the bins in the determined

storage type and section, the system cannot
Strategies locate a suitable bin, it will go to next section and
search there

• If all of the bins have been searched in the

storage type, the system will then assign the next
storage type in the storage type search
sequence.