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Harish Patil
March 2, 2020 4 minute read

Bulk Storage Strategy in SAP EWM

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This blog post is intended to provide the reader complete details for Bulk put away strategy in EWM.

Bulk products which requires large amount of storage space are usually stored in a bulk storage. EWM
con guration creates block structure where each bin is divided according to it’s physical structure and
system decides the no HU’s which can be stored in accordance to Stack/stack Height parameters.

This blog post will cover con guration and process ow.

Firstly Storage type should have Storage behavior 2 – Bulk storage.

The Put away rule should be 2 – Addition to existing stock/ Empty bin.

Indicator for Mixed storage & Mixed storage in HU in uence the mixed storage in a bin.

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Mixed storage in a Bin – You can store di erent quants in a bin having di erent attributes e.g. batches.

Following indicators in uence the mixed storage in a bin.

Mixed storage without limitations- Enables storing no of HU’s and there is no inter-dependency between
HU’s.
Several Non mixed HU’s with same product/Batch – Individual HU should have same product and same
batch no.
Several HU’s with di batches of same product.
Single HU allowed per bin

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Indicator – Mixed storage in HU

Mixed storage not allowed – HU in a bin can contain one product & one batch i.e. it can have only one
quant.
Several batches of same product per HU – Multiple batches of product can be stored in HU.
Mixed storage without restriction

The PACI – 0040 is con gured to get search sequence – 0040.

Storage type 0040 is assigned as rst sequence for search sequence – 0040.

Con guration of allowed Bin types per Storage type so here Storage type 0040 will allow Bin types – B001 &
B002.

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Con guration of Allowed HU type per Storage type.

Here HU type E1 & E2 are allowed for storage type 0040.

Con guration for Bin type search.

Here Storage bins with Bin type B001 will be searched when Stock placement happens in storage type 0040
, Hu Type E1 and similarly Bin type B002 will be searched when Stock placement happens for HU type E2.

Con guration for Bulk Storage structure.

The Structure is de ned for storage type with reference to Bin type/ HU Type in accordance to BSI (Bulk
storage indicator).

The parameters for allowed stacks/Stack heights are entered and multiplication of this two elds Is
Maximum HU’s.

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As per below con guration, when system determines stock placement in storage type 0040 for Bin type
B001/HU type E1 , system will assign the Bin section value max HU’s – 15 when put away for rst HU
happens.

The indicator BSI (Bulk storage indicator) is assigned to product.

Process ow –

Create IBD in ECC from Purchase order & IBD is distributed to EWM.

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Staging area is determined based on master data setup in /SCWM/STADET_IN for Staging Area and Door
Determination (Inbound)

Automatic packing in HU in accordance to Pack spec con guration.

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HU type – E1 is speci ed in the Pack spec and it further in uence the Bin type determination during put
away. The target quantity of 650 PC is packed in HU as speci ed in Pack spec.

Completed the Good receipt and HU is available in bin – ‘BL-LOSKADE’

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Created WT and con rmed it. HU is put away into Bin – 015-193-1 having bin type B001.

Available HU’s in a bin can be seen in monitor.

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The Bin sectioning details are copied from bulk storage con guration which shows Max no HU’s – 15 and no
of HU’s currently present in a Bin.

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Summary – The Bulk storage strategy con guration in EWM allows to de ne block structure in terms of
Stack/Stack heights and Max no of HU’s which can be stored in a storage bin. This bulk structure is copied
to Bin once the rst HU is put away and there is no explicit requirement of capacity check as an internal
check is carried out based on the block structure de nition when HU is being placed in a bin.

References –

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US/88/4a8041a17e060de10000000a1550b0/content.htm?no_cache=true

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US/4c/b4cf6b0c056642e10000000a15822b/frameset.htm

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Vineet Dhawan

April 6, 2020 at 6:31 am

Hi Harish,

Thanks for the detailed blog over Bulk Put-away Strategy.

Please can you advise what would be the implication, if I select put-away rule as “General Storage area”
rather than 2. The reason I am asking is that I have requirement to put-away mixed stock type e.g. Q4 and F2

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in same bin. In order to activate this requirement, I have to activate mixed stock type and at same time I
have to change put-away rule as general storage area. Put-away rule “Addition to existing stock” doesn’t
work in order to determine same bin for mixed stock type stock.

Look forward to hear from you.

Thanks and Regards,

Vineet Dhawan

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