Door
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Door
Definition
Location in the warehouse where the goods arrive at or leave the warehouse. The door is an organizational unit that you assign to
the warehouse number.
Vehicles and their transportation units (TUs) drive up to the doors of a warehouse to load or unload goods there. The doors are in
close proximity to the relevant staging areas .
Use
To control putaway and stock removal processes in your warehouse, you can define doors and staging areas within a warehouse
number.
Inbound
Outbound
In delivery processing, the system uses determination rules to determine the following for each delivery item:
Staging areas
Staging bays
Doors
The determination rules are influenced by the possible assignments that you have defined in Customizing between doors and
staging areas as well as between doors and staging area/door determination groups. The system updates the delivery at item level
with the values that it finds.
You define doors in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Master Data Warehouse Door Define
Warehouse Door. You assign staging areas and staging area/door determination groups to your doors under Master Data
Warehouse Door.
Structure
You assign each door to a storage bin that you can use to post goods receipts or goods issues. You assign this storage bin to a
storage type with the storage type role F .
You can also assign doors to supply chain units to control authorization checks. You can also assign doors to yard bins (see Yard
Management ).
See also:
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