Production Order Processing with Third-Party Warehouse Management (2RU)

The scope item covers production processes. The business part of the processes, including creation and confirmation of production or process order, are performed in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system. The decentralized third-party warehouse management system runs processes required for the physical and logical goods movements. The two variants of the process include material staging to ensure that all needed components or raw materials are available for production, as well as the goods receipt of the finished goods after production confirmation. The first variant is without automatic backflush of the components and with the assumption that all involved storage locations are managed by third-party warehouse management solution. The other variant works with automatic backflush and the assumption of a centrally managed production storage. 

Key Process Steps Covered

Production order processing for semifinished products without automatic backflush of components - all storage locations managed by third-party WMS

• Create and release production order
• Stage materials
• Execute on delivery in third-party WMS
• Pick components for production
• Confirm production order
• Execute goods receipt in third-party WMS

Production order processing for semifinished products with automatic backflush of components - production storage location is managed centrally

• Create and release production order
• Stage materials
• Execute on delivery in third-party WMS
• Confirm production order
• Execute goods receipt in third-party WMS

Process order processing for semifinished product without automatic backflush of components - and all storage locations managed by third-party WMS

• Create process order
• Pick components for process order
• Check IDOC message and execute on delivery in WMS
• Confirm process order for semifinished product
• Posting goods receipt for process order
• Check IDOC message and execute on delivery in WMS
• Check stock information

Benefits

• Integrate existing third-party warehouse management systems to SAP S/4HANA Cloud with asynchronous SOAP APIs or asynchronous IDoc-technology
• Assist with sample processes and related communication arrangements

Additional Information

• This scope item is excluded from the default activation

This scope item is only relevant if you would like to integrate with self-operated warehouses implemented running on on-premise third-party warehouse management solutions. The scope item Third-Party Warehouse Management System Integration (1ZQ) is a prerequisite to 2RU. If you requested this scope item, see the set-up instructions in SAP Activate Roadmap / SAP Best Practices Explorer.

Where is Production Order Processing with Third-Party Warehouse Management(2RU) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

• As a core function of Production Operations within Manufacturing Scope Item Group
• As a core function of Inventory within Supply Chain Scope Item Group

Process flow of Production Order Processing with Third-Party Warehouse Management (2RU)

• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA On Premise *1
• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA Cloud *2
• Best Practices of SAP Analytics Cloud *2
• Best Practices of Robotics Process Automation(RPA) with SAP Leonardo *2

• RISE with SAP
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• SAP on Azure
• Business Process Management