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Warehouse Management Organization Structure:

I. Warehouse Number: Warehouse Number is defined in Enterprise structure. Generally it is


created by copying the standard. This is an alphanumeric and the description has 25
characters length. It will be assigned to Plant and Storage Location in assignment. It can be
assigned to a number of combinations of Storage Location and Plant.

SPROEnterprise StructureDefinition Logistics Execution Define, copy, delete, check


warehouse number
Double click on below highlighted

Then click on Copy icon and provide input details as shown below. Generally from warehouse
number is given as standard warehouse number 001 or as per the requirement. And to warehouse
number field will be filled with the warehouse number which has to be created

Find the warehouse number below


Assignment of Warehouse number to Plant/Storage location combination:

SPROEnterprise Structure Assignment Logistics ExecutionAssign warehouse number to


plant/storage location

Note: One warehouse number can be assigned to the combination of multiple plants and storage
locations. But multiple warehouse numbers can’t be used for the same Plant

Click on new entries and assign Plant, Storage Location and Warehouse number
II. Storage Type: Number of areas can be defined within the warehouse. The defined areas of
Storage in SAP are called Storage Types. The layout of the warehouse is divided into Storage
Types, and these defined areas related directly to the requirements of the materials to the
stored in the warehouse.
Ex: Fast moving materials, Rack Storage, Bulk Pallet Storage, Slow moving materials, Special
Storage

Below path is used to define Storage Typpe

SPROEnterprise Structure Logistics Execution Warehouse Management Master


DataDefine Storage Type

Ware house number is copied from the standard warehouse number so all standard storage types
will be copied and available for the new warehouse number as shown below

New storage type also can be created as per the requirement. Find below screen for new storage
type
III. Storage Section: The Storage type can be divided into a number of areas which are called
Storage sections. Storage section contains the storage bins where the material is stored.
Many storage types only have one storage section because there is no requirement to break
Storage type into further distinct areas. At least one storage section should be there for a
storage type
Example: Pallet goods, Bulk goods, fast moving Items, Slow moving items etc.
Below path is used to define Storage section.

SPROEnterprise Structure Logistics Execution Warehouse Management Master


DataDefine Storage Section
I hope this document will be helpful to understand about the organization structure of Warehouse
Management

Regards,

Ganesh

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