SAP MM book authored by mukesh shukla and published by tata mcgraw hill
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Monday, October 8, 2018
Chapter's Synopsis: SAP WM: Fundamentals of Warehouse Management
Chapter’s Synopsis
Section
I: Science of Warehousing
Chapter 1: Warehouse- A Logistics HUB: Warehouse is a central point in supply
chain logistics to control the consolidation the incoming materials
(warehousing), distributing and shipping (transportation) them to respective
customers/consumers in various locations or geographies. Warehouse receives
material, store and sort and ships them to next destination. Materials are not
supposed to be stored in warehouse for long period. They are stored there
temporary till they are shipped to another warehouse or retail store or
distributor or to their final customers/consumers.
Chapter
2: Warehouse Design, Layout and Configuration:
Designing a distribution centre is a
complex task, requiring engineers to design storage areas, order picking areas,
and material handling systems with the goal of meeting service requirements at
minimum cost. Nearly every distribution centre has a unit-load, or pallet,
storage area where products are stored before being picked, or before being
moved to other order picking areas in the distribution centre.
Chapter
3: Warehouse Management:
Warehouses are managed at strategic
level and operational level. Strategic and operational management of warehouse
directly impacts the logistic management in supply chain. Strategic management
is focused on effectiveness of warehouse through its purpose, throughput and
performance benchmarking of the warehouse. Operational management is focused on
efficiency of warehouse through continuous monitoring and performance
measurement. Strategic warehouse management covers its purpose in supply chain,
geographical location, warehouse process designing, floor layout, doors and
dock designing, zoning, and aisle and rack configuration, mechanization and
automation and material handling equipment. The
strategic placement of warehouse allows the positioning of products and
services close to major markets and customers (the economic principle of place
utility). Operational management is focused on handling and monitoring of day
to day routine operations of warehouse to improve productivity and performance.
Warehouse management is focussed on warehouse process execution and their
performance measurement.
Chapter
4: Automation in Putaway and Picking: If you apply automation to a bad process worse thing happen faster
(materials handling professional’s a favourite expression). Automation is meant for well-defined
process which has been executed manually for many years. Automation designer
may design variant of existing process, but process definition should be time
tested. Full automation of order fulfilment warehouse is not feasible
economically and moreover it does not provide best efficiency and
effectiveness. Any order picking warehouse has mix of manual and automated
operations to achieve efficiency in picking. It makes sense to automate picking
station, if the land and man power is very expensive, for example in Singapore,
EU countries and US.
Section
II: SAP WM
Chapter 5: SAP WMS:
Warehouse Management System:
The need of WMS system arises from the necessity of having directed activities
from an intelligent and wise system to execute warehouse processes. A system
should tell operators where to put and from where to pick based on the
warehouse structure and layout, demand variation and supply chain distribution
strategies. This chapter discusses the approach to understand the warehouse
operations and its structure. While doing so structures of warehouse and definitions
of terms used in warehouse operations have been talked about.
Chapter 6: Executing the
SAP WMS:
This chapter talks about various types of warehouses and their operations and
their execution in SAP. In this section we will
understand the various process of different type of warehouses. Each type of
warehouse has its typical process and their respective execution
Chapter 7: Configuring
the SAP WMS:
How do we configure SAP so that we can execute required WM process in SAP? This chapter will take you through the configuration of
SAP WMS
Annexure 1: Case Study: Integration
of SAP IM - WM and Third party WMS and ASRS system
Annexure
2:
Fundamental SAP WM Interview Questions & Answers
Annexure 3:
Assessment Chart: SAP WM vs SAP EWM (refer to section 5.7 also)
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