Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Picking
Figure 7.15 Error Message for an Exceeded Tolerance Value
7.4 Lean WM
The previous sections familiarized you with the basic settings in the SAP system
that are needed to activate picking. But I have not yet explained picking itself.
System support of picking makes sense only if the system knows where specific
materials are stored. Once again, from the SAP training materials, picking means
the “on-time staging of goods in the correct quantity and quality for shipment to
customers.” I would also add that picking means that warehouse employees go to
the correct location, take the correct goods in the proper quantity, combine them
with other items in the delivery, and bring them to the loading point.
Accordingly, the SAP system must know where to find specific items. To meet this
requirement, WM must be available and activated. That means that you have triggered
picking from Logistics Execution System (LES) and transferred it to WM.
You can find a detailed description of picking in WM in Warehouse Management
with SAP. 1
If you do not use WM and do not use an external warehouse management system
to track your stock, you only have one option. You must use lean WM to pick. If
1 Marc Hoppe and André Käber, Warehouse Management with SAP (Bonn: SAP PRESS, 2007).
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