Define Control Parameters - Warehouse Order Creation
Application component: Warehouse Order Processing
App type: SAP GUI
Description:  This function groups together warehouse tasks into warehouse orders, according to your settings in Customizing for warehouse orders (see Warehouse Order), and thus creates optimum work packages for you. For warehouse order creation, you define rules with their relevant criteria. Warehouse order creation is particularly suitable for optimizing processes for picking. 
Key features:  A wave consists of a number of deliveries. After the wave and wave item have been released (either automatically by Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) or manually by a user), EWM creates warehouse tasks. EWM joins the warehouse tasks together into warehouse orders, according to the warehouse order creation rules you've defined. A warehouse order can contain warehouse tasks from more than one delivery. You can create locked warehouse orders resulting from the wave release. You cannot initially continue to process these warehouse orders. You can use a method in the warehouse management monitor (see Warehouse Management Monitor) to release the lock on the warehouse orders. If you want to release the lock on a warehouse order, you can select the Unlock WO method, for example, in the warehouse management monitor in the dialog structure under the node Documents  Warehouse Order using the More Methods action menu (see Processing of Waves). When grouping warehouse tasks into warehouse orders, EWM uses the search sequence for warehouse order creation, for example, first rule A, then B, then C. EWM works through the warehouse order creation rules in sequence, as you have defined for each activity area. You can change the sequence subsequently. Filters and limit values control which warehouse tasks and how many warehouse tasks EWM groups together into a warehouse order. The individual warehouse order creation rule can contain sorting rules. As soon as EWM applies a warehouse order creation rule, it sorts the warehouse tasks according to these sort rules. Since the work packages for the warehouse employee are based on the complete summarization of warehouse tasks into warehouse orders, then after all user-defined warehouse order creation rules have been applied, no warehouse tasks must be left over that are not assigned to a warehouse order. If EWM has applied all the user-defined warehouse order creation rules for the search sequence, and there are still unprocessed warehouse tasks, the system uses a remainder rule. This rule creates warehouse orders for the remaining warehouse tasks. EWM summarizes these warehouse tasks according to the following criteria:  For each activity area  For each queue  For each consolidation group  If you do not define your own warehouse order creation rules for the current activity area, then warehouse order creation uses a standard rule. This rule attempts to group deliveries according to the following criteria:  For each activity area  For each queue  For each delivery Note If you generate warehouse tasks that are relevant for the material flow system, EWM automatically uses the warehouse order creation rule of the material flow system. This rule allows EWM to group a maximum of one warehouse task per warehouse order.  You can use the following parameters to define creation of warehouse orders in detail for your warehouse processes:  Sorting rule For more information about defining sorting rules, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Cross-Process Settings  Warehouse Order  Define Sorting Rules for Warehouse Tasks.  Filter For more information about item filters or subtotal filters, see Filters for Warehouse Order Creation Rules.  Limit value For more information, see Limit Values for Warehouse Order Creation Rules.  Parameters for packing You use these parameters to specify the number of handling units for a warehouse order. You specify these parameters in a packing profile, which you assign to a packaging specification. For more information about defining packing profiles, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Cross-Process Settings  Warehouse Order  Define Packing Profile for Warehouse Order Creation.  Packing mode  Consolidation Group During warehouse order creation, the consolidation group influences which warehouse tasks you are permitted to pack together. EWM determines the consolidation group in the delivery, and transmits it to the relevant warehouse tasks. Example You define the maximum number of consolidation groups in a warehouse order as the definition of a limit value.  You can simulate creation of warehouse orders for your warehouse tasks. You can define control parameters for warehouse order creation. For example, you can activate the log for warehouse order creation for each warehouse number, activity area or warehouse order creation rule, or specify the number of work processes depending on the warehouse number.