Warehouse Management System
When you implement the Warehouse Management System (WMS) in a plant, you define the individual warehouses (high-rack storage, block storage, picking area, and so on) as storage types within a warehouse complex and group them together under a warehouse number. As a rule, it is not necessary to define several storage locations for a plant since you assign the WMS warehouse number to a storage location from Inventory Management (IM).
It is appropriate to define further storage locations for a plant if other warehouses (storage types) exist within a plant that is not managed using WMS but with Lean WM, for example.
In WMS you define storage bins for each of the storage types. In this way, WMS manages stock information on all materials in the warehouse at storage bin level. In addition, the stock quantities of the material are managed in Inventory Management (MM-IM) at the storage location level. In order to link the information at the storage location level with the information from the storage bin, assign a
warehouse number to the storage location.
As a rule, it is a good idea to manage only the stocks of one storage location and the same plant within a warehouse number. However, you can also manage several storage locations of one and the same plant within a warehouse number.
Depiction of the Physical Warehouse in WMS
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