Extended Warehouse Management


Searching SPRO

When you want to search for standard SAP delivered Configuration items, you click on the Binoculars and type in a keyword. Lets say you searched by Keyword " Handling Unit ".


SPRO - Search Results

The search help for "Handling Unit" as keyword yielded 6 configuration items for Extended Warehouse Management Module.

Within Extended Warehouse Management SPRO Node, if you go through all the Configuration Items, you will find that 7 items internally have configuration relevance to Handling Unit.


The Challenge

  1. Configuration for Work center [ SPRO-->Extended Warehouse Management --> Master Data --> Work Center --> Specify Work Center Layout ] has reference to Handling Unit

Field Type : Selection from Drop down list

Field :Transaction Type - 9 - Maintenance of Planned Shipping Handling Units -


How would anyone remember or know, that SAP provided Option 9 to enable a work center for Maintenance of Handling Units ? - This is soeciifically why this website is built, to provide that search capability to reverse look up of all configurations by a specific Keyword.

Below are some of EWM Configuration items that have reference to keyword "Handling Unit":



2. SPRO-->Extended Warehouse Management --> Cross-Process Settings --> Handling Units --> Basics --> Define Packaging Material Type

Field Type: Selection from Drop Down list

Field : Size : A - HUs do not contain lower level Handling Units



3. SPRO -->Extended Warehouse Management --> Cross-Process Settings --> Warehouse Task --> Define Layout-Oriented Storage Process Control

4. SPRO -->Extended Warehouse Management --> Material Flow Systems (MFS) --> Storage Control --> Define Layout-Oriented Storage Process Control


Field Type: Selection from Drop Down list

Field: Removal of whole HU: B - Empty Handing Unit

5. SPRO -->Extended Warehouse Management --> Labor Management --> Determine engineered labor standards

Field Type: Selection from Drop Down list

Field: Assign Work Step Sequence : Object Type : B- Handling Unit

6. SPRO -->Extended Warehouse Management --> Labor Management --> assign BRFPlus App. and Function to Decision service context

Field Type: Selection from Drop Down list

Field: Decision Service Context : 023- LA- Handling Unit

7. SPRO -->Extended Warehouse Management --> Interfaces --> migration from LE-WM --> define mapping rule: WM storage unit type to EWM handling unit type

Field Type: -

Field: Handling Unit Types