Storage locations as storage areas

We do not use Warehouse Management module. We are thinking of creating many storage locations (100+) to represent storage areas within a warehouse. This way, we will be able to locate stocks by referencing their SAP storage location against physically defined storage area. E.g. storage location A100 will have a corresponding physical location within the warehouse also termed as A100.
Like to know is this a viable solution. What will be the impact for other modules like MM? For instance during goods receipt/issue. How about maintenance wise? Will this solution create a maintenance headaches?
Lim
Singapore

This seems to be a good idea. The possible impact I can think of are detailed below:
1) Having too many storage locations means that your material master has to be extended for each storage location it will be stored in. This has an impact on the database size and table (MARD) size with a possible impact on the performance.
2) Also, look at the impact while recording physical inventory in SAP.
3) Then there is an impact if your company decides to implement warehouse management in the future.
Hope this helps,
Lakshman

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At the time of usage decision we are posting the stock in "To Reserve stock" for that we have created seperate storage location ie for Sample material.
we having two samples one is customer sample and other is in house sample both the samples we are posting in same storage location.
Client want to differentiate these two samples, so we have created two storage types.
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Anil

Hello Anil
I don't think you can transfer from storage location to storage type.
If your purpose is to differentiate these two samples, then why not use different Sample types with different number ranges and thus identify them. You don't have to get into QM-WM integration just for that.
If you want you may also set up 2 different physical sample locations: That would be ideal.
SPRO/IMG/Quality Management/Quality Inspection/Sample Management/Define Physical-Sample Types
SPRO/IMG/Quality Management/Quality Inspection/Sample Management/Define Number Range
SPRO/IMG/Quality Management/Quality Inspection/Sample Management/Define Physical-Sample Locations
On the application side you may use the sample management procedures to deal with samples. See the following link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/b8/b9b3341a933f50e10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm
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Dear Gurus,
We r doing storage location to storage location transfer within same plant through purchase order.
Due to excise requirement we have to raise excise invoice for the same for captive consumption purpose.
Is it possible to make it One step procedure so that GR will take place at same time as GI the way it works for plant to planrt.
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The proceedure you are following is a bit wierd. But I think this is as per your business requirements.
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You can map the process in SAP using 2 step stock transfers.
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Similarly for plant to plant movement type 301 and 305.
There is no customization available in SAP to do this with the single step stock transfers that you are currently using.
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Dear Users,
Please advice the configuration & pre-requisites for storage to storage location STO with delivery charges within a plant.
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Storage location to storage location

Hi all,
I am doing STO from storage location to storage location in MIGO. While doing so is it possible to get excise tab in migo. If there any settings for that please let me know..
Regards
Mahesh

Hi
Excise will be levied only if the material moves from a plant to another plant or a depot.
If u try to move a material from a storage location to another within a plant then there will not be any excise involvement.
Check with ur finance guys .
Also if u r trying to move ur material to a storage location outside ur plant, then the same has to created as a plant or a depot and then STO has to be done.
Basically for India excise comes to paly a role when the material leaves the premises only.
Check and revert .
Thx
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ONE storage location onther storage location during that period have to be

Selection criteria: date
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Hi G K,
     U can use MB51 tcode, its std. tcode., in this, fill the following fields like this, u will get desired result.
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Reward points if useful..
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Hi
Is there facility in 4.6C version to set up storage locaion
to storage location transfer STO ?
B'Coz iam not able to found Customizing setting in SPRO.
RRS.

Hi,
In 4.6 C version you will not get the Storage location to storage location Stock transfer option.
This is applicable to the ECC version only.
In 4.6C version you can adapt the Transfer posting from Storage loc to Storage loc using the Movement type 311,
but if you need the delivery type, Shipping data for Stock transfer b/w Storage loc to Storage location it is not possible in 4.6 C version. It is only avalibla in ECC versions.
rgds
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Here is the complete scenario .....
W1 -- Warehouse1 which has Supplies and Pharma
W2 -- Warehouse 2 which has Supplies and Equipments
W3 -- Warehouse 3 has Pharma only
W1 and W3 are in one Physical structure with partition
W2 is across the road...
1. Supplies move from W2 to W1 when supplies go low in warehouse 1 (W1) this is done almost daily .
2. Supplies from W1 are moved to W2 if there is any overflow or supplies come in excess which happens few times a week.
3. We have 3 shipment points where they perform shipping and receiving each for W1,W2 and W3.
4. we have 6 staging spots for staging of international shipments on W1
 and we have about 10 staging spots in W2 ....We need to know the exat location of where the shipping pallet is located for compliance purpose (Inspection )
5. Most of the receiving is done in W1 (about 85 %) where it is inspected , arranged and then put away is done accordingly ....
 If the shipment contains only equipments or Beds then its received in W2.
6. When there is an overflow of Pharma in W1 then some of the supplies in W1 are removed and put in W2 so that they get space for Pharma storage .....
7. Warehouse 3 (W3) has high value Pharma, basically used for domestic shipments (in US) or the pharma products which dont have space in W1.
8.. Moving of Pharma products for storage from W3 to W1 happens rarely;
9. Moving from W1 to W3 happens almost daily ..cause when ever the products get over in W3 then they move it from W1.
10. Picking for international shipments takes place from W3 and W1 and are shipped from W1 in big Pallets.
11. When they receive the product in Big pallets in W1 some pharma products go to W1 and some in W3 , depending on the value .
12. Some times the domestic Shipments are in large quantity so its taken from W3 to W1 and staged for shipment in W1.
13. Domestic (within US) shipments is done through Fed Ex ....which is done daily ....
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OPTION 1:make these 3 warehouses into 3 storage locations...(1 plant >3storage locations>1 warehouse )or
OPTION 2: is it wise to make these 3 warehouses into 3 storage types ...... (1plant --->1 storage location --->1 warehouse -
>3 storage types -->1 section under each storage type )
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Albert

Hello Albert,
It's always suggested to have very simple organization structure so we can avoid extra transaction.
Now in your case, if you define three Plant/SLoc/warehouse then you are going to end up with more and more transactions at inventory level and followed by warehouse transactions.
I suggest to have one Sloc and one warehouse for this kind of organization and maintain different storage type for each physical location. This will reduce the IM level transactions. Now when moving material from one facility to another facility you can maintain one more storage type for the Transport Equipement (i.e. Cart/Forklift etc) so when you move from W1 to W2 at that time you can do bin to bin transfer.
Also you want facility for overflow in one facility so this can be achieved with allowing two storage type for putaway.
for different kind of Supplies and pharma, I am sure you will plan different material type for them so that will help to get reports for each category.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Arif Mansuri

Storage Location To Storage Location Transfer

Hello All
We are transfering the stock transfer from one storage location to another store loaction in two step ( 313 & 315)
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Hi,
There is no such report exists in SAP.
313 & 315 documents are no where linked up with each other. check Table MSEG and Table MKPF if required.
when we create the transfer posting it creates 2 document lines.
1. One line to reduce the stock from issuing Storage Location
2. Second line to put the stock in-transit of destination Storage Location.
And to move stock from one storage location to another storage location one can use any of the transfer posting document & SAP will allow you to post 315 document until stock in transit qty gets exausts.system allow to place the stock in reference to already executed TR document also.
You can get quantitative Stock in Transit data in Report MB52 under column Transit/Transter wherein stock in transit qty will reflect against receiving storage location or in table MARD
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It is working fine manually i.e whenever I change EMPTY to FULL the replishment is happening that is stock is posting one stores to another stores.
Then When I consume the stock after transferring system is not doing replishment automatically
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I donu2019t want to go and change the status empty to Full system only have to check the status ans have to post stock and status have to change automatically. we don't any manual interruption for changing the status. because we have thousands of materials so it is difficult
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Ravi, this is all that Kanban is about; a simple visual/manual procedure that is used to signal the fact that a container is now EMPTY.
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I am new in WM,
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Hi Gurus,
Here Client want to transfer Material from 1 loc to another. Std T Code is MB1B with Mov Type 309. But here we have to enter material, qty,& batch no.But client's requirement is that he dont want to enter all these things.He want to select the material,batches collectively sothat seperate entry should be minimised. Is there any functionality through which we can transfer the selected materials?
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