SAP EWM – Pick Driven Replenishment / User based replenishment / Direct Replenishment.

In SAP EWM, at the time of picking stock for internal use, if the warehouse operator does not find sufficient or any stock in the source storage type (in the ideal replenishment process — planned — the system usually creates the replenishment warehouse task), the warehouse operator can self-create a replenishment task to pick the material from the replenishment storage type to the source storage type and refill the stock in the source type. In Direct Replenishment in SAP EWM, the replenishment of stock is triggered during a bin denial when an exception code refers to the internal process code ‘Replenishment’. The system calculates the replenishment quantity in accordance with the maximum and minimum quantities and assumes the quantity at the storage bin is zero. The system then rounds down the replenishment quantity to a multiple of the minimum replenishment quantity.
Direct replenishment can be performed by the picker (picker-directed replenishment). In this case, a warehouse task is displayed for the replenishment as the next item to be processed in the picker’s warehouse order. As a prerequisite, the system must have found stock in the permitted storage types. Picker-directed replenishment is only possible in radio frequency scenarios.

Replenishment process system settings.
In Replenishment make the following settings against the Fixed bin storage type.

Maintain eh exception code – REPL to create the replenishment warehouse by WH operation using RF.

Process Flow

Create a sales order
a) Create Outbound delivery > Delivery gets distributed to EWM > Perform Warehouse picking from Replenishment bin (Fixed bin).
b) Picking WT created to pick material from Replenishment fixed bin.

Use RF transaction to perform the pick driven process. Using the WO the system will confirm the Warehouse order to pick material from 0050 (replenishment FIXED BIN) to goods issue area.
Stock report -> Where the system will show the negative qty for replenishment storage type 0050 for the WT generated.



On Pressing enter the screen will switch from REPL-0050 to 0035 storage type. Where the user has to perform the refilling the stock first from 0035 to 0050 .

Move the stock to FIXED bin

On confirming the warehouse task, the screen will switch back to original replenishment movement i.e., REPL from 0050 to GI_ZONE. Sine the stock is now available to pick from 0050.

RF Screen



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