Storage Bin Type Search

This question relates to teh storage bin type search.
When a storage bin type is assigned to a number of different storage unit types, when the systen is trying to putaway a material, does it assign preferentially according to how storage unit types are listed in this table or when finding the next empty bin, does it simply check this table to make sure that the storage bin type is compatible with the storage unit type. For example, if the storage unit type is a half pallet and the next empty bin can hold both a full pallet and a half pallet, will the system try and find a half pallet space or will it simply place the SU into the full pallet space.

Hi,
It will work like this in the material master palletization data you will assign the Storage unit type and in OMM1 you will assign the storage unit type to the storage bin type (search criteria).
So if you have HP, then in the storage type it is next empty bin it fin the FP and then HP, system will place it in the HP only.
thanks,
JK

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Hi,
Please check and try to define Storage Bin Type (SPRO->LE->master data->storage bins), then activate Storage Bin type search strategy in OMM1.as appropriate. (in my past experience system given priority to Storage type search and then to Storage BIn type search during picking- I am not sure whether this is the SAP logic or priority).
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First let's understand what is the meaning of "Storage unit type"
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Dear Maxx,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/c6/f844694afa11d182b90000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
Storage Bin:
A storage type generally contains several storage spaces or slots. These are called storage bins in Warehouse Management (WM). The storage bin is the smallest available unit of space in a warehouse. The storage bin therefore describes the position in the warehouse where the goods are or can be stored.
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Can anyone explain what is the differnce between the staorage bin type which is maintaine for storage bins and the storage unit type which is maintained in material master.
Can any one correct me that My material storage unit type is maintained in TT and the storage bin for put awayis maintained in PC (storage bin type).
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THe storage unit type is a description of how the material is stroed in the storage bin.
Some bins may not able to allow a full pallet due to height restrictions,but a half-pallet may fit.so warehouse can define a storage unit type that defines a half-pallet and qty of the material that can fit on that half-pallet.
Configuration menu path:IMG-logistics Execution-Warehouse Management-master data-material-define storage unit type.
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Hi MANISH,
Though there exists many storage bins , the system is not able to find these bins because proper storage unit type is not defined.
System identifies the destination based on the following criteria :
Activate Storage Type Search
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Activate Storage Bin Type Search
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SPROLogistics ExecutionWarehouse Management--Strategies
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First find storage type, then storage section and finally storage bin type.
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Find storage type first, then with first storage bin type find a bin in storage section sequence, if not found try to found with second storage bin type within storage section sequence and so on.
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OK, so you want it to check all storage sections for available bin type "A" and only then loop back around and check for bin type "B" from the first storage section again.
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It seems there is some problem with configuration, check in the given path below for configuration.
SPRO-IMG-Logistics execution-Warehouse management-Strategies-Activate Storage Bin Type Search,
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Create STO PO - ME21n
create deliveries via - BAPI_OUTB_DELIVERY_CREATE_STO
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confirm TO- L_TO_CONFIRM
Using BDC i am doing PGI for VL02n
create Transfer order(TO) - L_TO_CREATE_DN - for i/b delivery
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error_message = 16
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message class : L3
message number : 009
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No destination storage bin to be found in storage type 104
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Hi all,
Thanks for your replies.
Manish: Where do I see that the storage bin is created with respect to storage type? I was checking LS03N where I can see that the storage bin is created for storage section and storage bin type. Configuraiton is like below:
Storage Bin search Strategy:
(1) By storage section: Not active
(2) By Stotage Bin type - Active and the storage bin type is assigned to a storage type.
I have one storage bin available (Bulk Storage) for the selected storage Bin type BUT it is not automatically searched by the process. Material master has WM view1 with storage type indicator and there is a config for storage type search which is working good. The only issue is searching storage bin while creating TO during Goods movement, in particular Put away. Also please note that the storage bin is not hardcodes in material master).
This error happens for all the scenarios (unrestricted, blokced or when WM stock is initial or when the materrial is created first time and subject the WM movements).
When I first started this question I thought that the error happens only for Blocked status. Actually it is happening for all the scenatios when the WM stock in initial.
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Dear Satish
A storage type generally contains several storage spaces or slots. These are called storage bins in Warehouse Management (WM). The storage bin is the smallest available unit of space in a warehouse. The storage bin therefore describes the position in the warehouse where the goods are or can be stored.
Since the address of a storage bin is frequently derived from a coordinate system, a storage bin is often referred to as a coordinate. The coordinate 01-02-03 for example, can refer to a storage bin in row 1, stack 2, and level 3.
You assign each storage bin to a specific warehouse number and storage type according to its location. You must also assign each storage bin to a storage section.
You can also define the following additional characteristics of a storage bin:
         --> Maximum weight
         --> Total capacity
         --> Fire containment section
         --> Storage bin type (for example, for small or large pallets)
With certain stock placement strategies, the storage bin type plays a significant role in optimizing the automatic search for a storage bin in connection with the pallet type. For example, you can define the WM putaway strategy to place large industrial pallets into a specific large bin type and smaller pallets into small bins.
<i><b>For information on how to define storage bins, call up the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Warehouse Management and see under Master Data --> Storage Bins .</b></i>
Generally speaking, you can use any combination of letters and numbers for a storage bin coordinate with the exception of certain alphanumeric characters that are used for stock placement strategy P (according to pallet or storage unit type).
When goods are placed into storage, the system selects coordinates in ascending order according to specific sort criteria, and assigns the next available storage bin based on the coordinate structure you define for creating bins.
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Problem with SUT into bin type table

When in SPRO in strategy -storage unit type search strategy - SUT in bin type table,we have only 30 entries possible.
BUt we need more somewhere like 150 records because of a bulk storage type with a lot of storage bins with different
size and therefore capacity. To define true exact capacity we need different bin types right?
I am not sure how to do this,maybe there is a option in settings to change 30 to 150 or 200 to make the table bigger?
Or any other solution will be great because we do need this because in the way it works now,we have a lot of problems
in putaway,we have huge realocations since we have not exact capacities but we had to group bins with similar capacity
but that means that three bins with 48, 52 and 56 capactiy all have 52.

If I remember correctly this has been asked numerous times before, try searching the discussions.
Anyway, you have a couple of possible solutions for this.
It is understandable that you don't want hundreds of reallocation on daily basis, and you don't want to lose the capacity otherwise, but it feels that your bins should and could have been planned a bit better, there is always a way to unify capacities, split bins, use the storage space in a more meaningful manner. This is the point where your optimization was supposed to be done, not in SAP. But anyway, you are stuck with what you have and here are the solutions that cross my mind.
1. Standard SAP:
Split the bins to multiple storage types, this way you will have 30 bin types, but they will have different capacity for different storage types (in OMM4). Easy and standard, but has the downside that you will have to manipulate with 5 storage types instead of 1. A bit of more customizing but will solve the problem. Also, storage type search will need to be changed to include all the STs... Might be harder to track the strategies but this is the only standard way that crosses my mind.
2. ABAP:
This is the solution I have used and works fine, though you will need an ABAP-er to complete this.
Create a z-table/view having the same structure as the standard one, just add 120 more fields.
Well, not only that, you will have to change the coding to use this custom table instead of standard one, and although this isn't the brightest solution since you won't be able to change this table in customizing in the predefined path in SPRO/OLML, but will need o do it in SM30.
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More than one Quant in a Storage bin section (Strategy P)

Dear all,
We have a Storage type with Putaway strategy P, the SUT check active but no SU Management active, Mixed storage = X and Addition to stock = X.
For this Storage type, our Storage bin type and SUT we have set up in customizing a Bin sectioning 3 meaning the Storage bin is divided into 3 sections so a maximum of 3 Quants per Storage bin. Note that other Bin sectionings have also been set up.
During testing I found out a Storage bin section can only contain one Quant at a time.
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If I try to add a Material/Batch to a Storage bin section that already contains stock of another Material/Batch (so, a different Quant), the system gives me an error:
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Now we can only put one Quant (so one Material/Batch) in a Storage bin section at a time;
We want to be able to put more Quants into a Storage bin section at a time.
How can we achieve this?
Note we rather donu2019t want to use Storage Unit Management.
Thanks for any clues!
Kind regards,
Bart

Hi Bart,
As a thumb rule you cannot have one quant with multiple Materials. Ofcourse you can keep on adding same material /batch is the same quant i.e. in the same Bin section where you already put the material.
Quick win for your case is Increase the number of quants allowed say 15. In this case you can keep on storing different material / batches on the same pallet but system will keep on generating sections.
At any point of time you can easily track how many quants (Mat + quantity) are stored in that Bin & relevant section.
For strategy P , SUT check must be activated you cannot skip it.
If Business is not ready to work with more number of sections , you can always think of mapping another startegy ..you could do more test with Bulk Storage.
To my knowledge Strategy I i.e. Addition to existing stock with Mixed storage Indicator will work very well here.
You just need to map appropriate Capacity check as startegy I goes with active capacity.
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Mahesh

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HI
For creating TO from TR , we run LB10, and select "TO in foreground", open (LT04), when we create TO (LT04 ) - on first item, we select "Putaway foreground" (icon >lifter with plus sign), shows Palletization screen, here system automatically purposes,
Destination storage type, storage section and storage bin.
also purposes quant, storage unit .
Here (in the same screen) can we change destination storage section(allowed) and bin(allowed) ?
Storage type setting:
Putaway strategy is : I > addition to existing stock
Destination bin change during confirmation = 1 allowed ( i understand , it means we can change distination storage bin during TO confirmation )
Secondly, i know we can enter storage type, section and bin in LT04 main screen, and go to "Palletization".
it purposes remaining elements like Quant, storge unit.
thanks
james

Hi All
question is
CAN we change destination storage section and storage bin on " PUTAWAY FOREGROUND" screen ( that comes on clicking icon Lifter Plus sign) , where system purposes \ recommended based on master data defined for that material .
I know we can change it on LT04 , main screen . and its working. my focus is , "Putaway foreground" screen is more appropriate for changing sections or bin.
i have carefully configured storage types setting, material master , storage indicator , section indicator , Storage unit type, Storage bin type etc.
thanks
James

Dest.storag bin change during putaway foreground

HI
For creating TO from TR , we run LB10, and select "TO in foreground", open (LT04), when we create TO (LT04 ) - on first item, we select "Putaway foreground" (icon >lifter with plus sign), shows Palletization screen, here system automatically purposes,
Destination storage type, storage section and storage bin.
also purposes quant, storage unit .
Here (in the same screen) can we change destination storage section(allowed) and bin(allowed) ?
Storage type setting:
Putaway strategy is : I > addition to existing stock
Destination bin change during confirmation = 1 allowed ( i understand , it means we can change distination storage bin during TO confirmation )
Secondly, i know we can enter storage type, section and bin in LT04 main screen, and go to "Palletization".
it purposes remaining elements like Quant, storge unit.
thanks
James
Edited by: Csaba Szommer on Jan 6, 2012 8:10 AM

Hi All
question is
CAN we change destination storage section and storage bin on " PUTAWAY FOREGROUND" screen ( that comes on clicking icon Lifter Plus sign) , where system purposes \ recommended based on master data defined for that material .
I know we can change it on LT04 , main screen . and its working. my focus is , "Putaway foreground" screen is more appropriate for changing sections or bin.
i have carefully configured storage types setting, material master , storage indicator , section indicator , Storage unit type, Storage bin type etc.
thanks
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