SAP Business: Picking Process

January 2, 2010 by CRM
Filed under: Sale and Distribution

You will create a transfer order in SAP for an outbound delivery. A transfer order is created for a warehouse number. During this business process, only the deliveries that are necessary for picking are taken into account. The SAP R/3 System copies the relevant data from the delivery.

The SAP R/3 System can combine several outbound deliveries into a group of transfer orders, as long as these deliveries all have the same warehouse number.

Selection for outbound delivery can be further restricted, for example via the picking date and by choosing certain shipping points.

In order to optimize picking, you can create picking lists which include all relevant deliveries. In order to relieve the work for the picker, you can sort the list according to storage bin and material and also sum up the quantities per material.

The SAP R/3 System can create transfer orders either on-line or as a background job to be executed during off-peak hours.

The picking location can be determined automatically by the SAP system when entering a delivery item if no storage location was specified in the corresponding item of the sale document. You can still change the automatically determined picking location manually in the delivery item.

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