Crossdocking in EWM - Vendor to Customer via Company Warehouse

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1). Customer places order. 2). Company places order to vendor to satisfy the customer order. 3). Vendor delivers to company. 4). Company ships to customer without keeping the stock in warehouse.
As I know cross-docking is a technique where we reduce the logistics expense by saving transportation and/or storage space. So, can I call this as one of the cross-docking scenario? If so, what it is in terms of SAP (EWM)?
For sure, it is planned one but not transportation cross-docking since source and/or final destinations are not internal Warehouses. Is it Merchandise distribution? FYI, my client industry is not retail.
In IMG, SCM Extended Warehouse Management > Extended Warehouse Management > Cross-Process Settings > Cross-Docking (CD) > Merchandise Distribution > Basic Settings for Merchandise Distribution. Here, there are few steps given for implementing Merchandise Distribution. Are there any other activities to perform? Please help.
Thanks
Sasidhar Gupta

Hi Sasidhar
Please find below points for your help and give more idea too.
Inbound Driven
When you create warehouse tasks for putaway, EWM checks whether ODO items exist that match the task items with regard to quantity and expiration date. Then, instead of creating the putaway warehouse task, EWM creates a cross-docking warehouse task with reference to the ODO item. EWM also checks during the putaway warehouse task creation to see if the stock in open pick warehouse task is less adequate (in terms of FIFO or FEFO) for the ODO item than the stock to be put away (unless the warehouse task is relevant for a material flow system). If so, EWM cancels the open pick warehouse tasks and creates a new cross-docking warehouse task with reference to the same ODO item.
Activating Opportunistic Cross-Docking
The opportunistic cross-docking functionality is coded within example BAdI implementations.
This means that you have to implement these BAdIs by copying the example class to activate the functionality. To activate the opportunistic crossdocking,you must perform the steps described in this section. Creating Implementations for Cross-Docking BAdIs
The BAdI for opportunistic cross-docking inbound can be activated in the EWM IMG by following the menu path Extended Warehouse Management • Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Extended Warehouse Management • Cross Process Settings • Cross-Docking (CD) • Opportunistic Cross-Docking • EWM-Triggered Opportunistic Cross-Docking • Opportunistic Cross Docking Inbound.
There you must create an implementation of this BAdI using example class /SCWM/
CL_EI_CD_OPP_INBOUND and activate the implementation. The BAdI for opportunistic cross-docking outbound can be activated in the EWM IMG via the menu path Extended Warehouse Management • Business Add- Ins (BAdIs) for Extended Warehouse Management • Cross Process Settings
Creating a Product Type Group and Product Group
Activating Opportunistic Cross-Docking at the Warehouse Level
Because the picking warehouse task for opportunistic cross-docking will be created
for inbound stock that is still assigned the stock type for stock received on dock but not yet put away , you need to maintain the EWM stock determination (for more details about the stock
determination, needs to be maintained within the stock determination for the relevant stock determination group for cross-docking.
To start, you must first maintain a new stock determination group for cross-docking
in the EWM IMG by following the menu path Extended Warehouse Management • Cross-Process Settings • Stock Determination • Maintain Stock Determination Groups.
Next, you must permit the inbound stock type for an ODO item that
has the normal stock type assigned. To specify the stock determination in the EWM IMG, follow the menu path Extended Warehouse Management • Cross-Process Settings • Stock Determination • Configure Stock Determination.
Finally, to activate opportunistic cross-docking for products, you must assign the product group (the one that you created in the previous steps) to the products in the Properties 2 tab of the SAP APO view of the product master.
Transaction code /SAPAPO/MAT1.
If you have configured the stock determination as described previously, you also need to assign the Stock Determination Group in the Warehouse Data tab of the warehouse product. tcode code /SCWM/MAT1.
Regards
Suraj

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