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Understanding Storage Control in

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The concept of Storage Control in SAP EWM is very important and vital. This is the
driving source for a product in a warehouse where complex movements with complex
layout structure exists. This blog post explains the storage control in a simple and
practical way that I worked and remembered was put into this blog now..
A complex warehouse should follow certain processes and steps along with a physical
layout in order to receive and goods issue items. SAP EWM arrived with two forms of
storage control one is process-oriented and another layout-oriented storage control.
In most warehouses the items putaway will not go directly to final destination bin.
The HU/items will follow multi-staging physical movement. Likewise the items will
follow some processes with steps. In the Inbound process, the pallets or case HU’s can
be staged at point or stage and if required consolidate or putway from staging. In
some cases two stagings required in order to putaway to final destination bin. This
putaway staging can be configured through Layout-oriented storage control.
In the Outbound process after picking the items moved to pack station consolidation
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and finally go to ship lanes and loaded into trailers. The physical movements of HU’s
through conveyor can be configured through process oriented storage control (POSC)
as well as layout oriented storage control(LOSC).
Process-oriented Storage Control (POSC):

Movement of products in a warehouse is based on processing requirement.
This is only available for products in HU’s. Non-HU managed products are not
supported.
Internal process steps are predefined by SAP and cannot be changed.
Configuration steps in Process oriented:
Define Storage processes like inbound process (default ex: INB1) and Outbound
process (default-OUT1).
External process step linking to SAP standard internal process steps.
Assign external process STEPS with sequence to Storage process.
In Process-oriented storage control section, you can also control Destination location
and WPT determination.
Determination storage process begins with the determination Warehouse process

type. The Whse process type determines with fields Delivery doc type, item type,
priority and process type indicator in the master data for product Whse data field.
Settings for storage process are important.

Set the storage process (ex: INB1) in the Warehouse process type (1011) for the
Goods receipt process.
Set the Storage process (ex: OMDX) in the Warehouse Order creation rule (ex: OMDC)
for the Goods Issue process.
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(https://i2.wp.com/tkreddy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/process-oriented-
example.png)Define Storage processes like inbound process (INB1) and Outbound
process (OUT1)
(https://i1.wp.com/tkreddy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/storage-process-
definition.png)External process step linking to SAP standard internal process steps.
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(https://i2.wp.com/tkreddy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/external-process-
step.png)Assign process step to each storage process.
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process.png)
Layout-oriented Storage Control (LOSC):

Goods do not travel directly from source storage location to destination storage
location, but move via intermediate location called staging locations.
Hu’s are not required in Lay-out oriented storage control if pick and ID points are
used.
You define intermediate storage bins. These bins can be used as identification points
in order
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Using both process and layout oriented

storage control
EWM always executes the process oriented storage control first. The Layout-oriented
storage control then checks whether the sequence of process steps is possible in
layout view .
A step can be executed in a signle level basis or Multi level basis through intermediate
storage types.
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The below two diagrams explains the direct storage control and multi storage
control in SAP EWM.
Direct Storage Control at Putaway .
Combined storage control at putaway
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Outbound Scenarios for storage process control
Let’s take two business scenario 1) Outbound with packing -pick, pack,stag and load
2) Outbound with Stag – pick, stag and load (no packing here)
So we need to create two custom storage process called OUTS and OUTP as below
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and creating external steps and link them to suitable standard internal steps as below
now assign external storage process steps in sequence to custom storage processes
OUTP and OUTS as below
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If you want a intermediate stage for the process oriented then we can configure lay
out oriented as below
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Finally the triggering point of outbound storage process is from WO (WOCR )

configuration as below
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Inbound Scenarios for storage process control
Let’s take two business scenario 1) Inbound with pack and putaway
2) Inbound with Dcon and puaway
We need to create two custom storage processes for inbound as below
We need to create external storage process step linking to internal process step as
below
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We need to assign external steps in sequence as shown below
If required for DECON and PACK we assign warehouse process types as below
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now the triggering point for Inbound storage process is from warehouse process
type WPT as shown below
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You can read SAP Help portal on Storage Control then click here
(http://help.sap.com/saphelp_ewm900/helpdata/en/48/a8c82151956745e1000000
0a421937/frameset.htm)
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Great Explanation……………
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Great article, I’ve noted some notes to apply on my blog site and this article is very
helpful in comes of storage control. This is very informative
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chandra says:
(https://www.tkreddy.com/2013/04/28/understanding-storage-control-in-
Really very help full for those who wants to learn new modules
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Samuel (http://www.rackingstoragesolutions.co.uk/) says:
Thanks for this explanation, it’s really helped! Storage control in SAP EWM can be
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