How to Define EWM Activity Areas and Bin Sorting

Executive Summary

• EWM Activity Areas and bin assignment and sorting are necessary for leveraging the application.
• We cover the assigning of bins to Activity Areas and the Sort Sequence.

Introduction

Activity areas have bins assigned to them.

To see how their configuration affects putaway, slotting, and rearrangement, see this article.

Storage bins are the main control unit in EWM. Every item eventually is assigned to a storage bin. They are simply a location in the warehouse that is within the storage location. Here we will show how to set up a staging area as well as a storage bin.

We must it to a warehouse number.

Once we have that selected, we can go forward and generate storage bins.

We need to change the table view then.

First, we want to select a line item. Then we want to select create bins.

Then the bins to be created are analyzed. You can see all the detail of the storage bins.

Then we need to select the create button.

Now we need to create the bins for the expedited delivery packing work center. Because the GI Area for Expedited delivery is a staging area, you must configure it as such.  So no, we want to go and create the storage bins.

Now we need to define the Expedited Delivery staging area.

Assigning Bins to Activity Areas

Here we will assign the bins to the activity area, select bin sorts for the activities in the activity area.

This assigns a consolidation group to your entry. This number is necessary for determining whether products in handling units must go through the de-consolidation process in process-oriented storage control.

Sort Sequence

Now we need to set up our sort sequence.

This creates the sort sequence.Now we select the execute button to implement the bin sorting.