How to Understand EWM Storage Type and Section Determination

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Executive Summary

EWM Storage Types in EWM is a critical component of the application.
We cover the desired configuration in this article.

Determining Location Information

When warehouse tasks are created to direct the movements of a product from its source receiving location to a destination location in the warehouse, the WM system determines this location information based upon configuration tables. If slotting is used, then slotting will help make this decision.

To read more about slotting, see this article.

The Configuration Desired

We want to configure EWM to determine the proper warehouse location for goods receipt movements automatically. We will explore how the system determines the source and destination locations in the warehouse tasks created in the putaway process.

Here we select details like warehouse number, storage type search sequence, and the storage type.

Now we want to configure the storage type search.

Now we want to create storage section indicators.