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Session Descriptions
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How WM integrates, supports, and drives processes through other R/3 modules
Tips and tricks to get your SAP Warehouse Management (WM) project off on the right foot
Managing multiple storage locations with a single warehouse structure
Map your IM storage locations and WM warehouses the right way
Tips and techniques to leverage R/3 analytic tools and improve inventory performance
Expert guidance for generating better inventory reports
How WM integrates, supports, and drives processes through other R/3 modules
Discover the real power of SAP Warehouse Management (WM) and the role it plays as the central figure in the business process design and physical flow of materials. Watch this session to:
- Learn about WM’s functionality and the critical configuration points you need to leverage to integrate WM with Inventory Management (IM), Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), and Sales and Distribution (SD).
- Discover the options to integrate, automate, and even to create manual processes (for more control) in WM based on your specific goals.
- See the key integration settings in the IMG, and understand the master data requirements (where applicable).
- See how the data flows back and forth when in a live R/3® environment.
- Find out how one module integrates, supports, and drives processes seamlessly through the R/3 system.
Tips and tricks to get your SAP Warehouse Management (WM) project off on the right foot
Because of tight project deadlines and resource constraints, you usually end up with a system that performs below expectations or requires extensive rework during post-go-live. Whether you already have WM, are looking to migrate from IM to WM, or even are considering WM as a new implementation, you will benefit from learning how to get the most out of your WM project from the beginning. Watch this session to:
- Find out what happens when you try to deploy the maximum functionality to meet all business requirements from the initial go-live.
- Get tips for how to get the most from your WM project before you go live.
- Learn proven strategies to maximize picking, put away, physical inventory, replenishment, processing material movements, and more.
Managing multiple storage locations with a single warehouse structure
Does your project or business require multiple storage locations, inventory distinctions, or even accounting segregation? If you want a simple, standard way to value your inventory within a given project, product line, type of inventory, or similar need, this session is for you. Watch the video to:
- Learn how SAP’s Warehouse Management (WM) solution supports these and similar requirements.
- See how WM provides an organizational hierarchy to support inventory accounting, visibility, availability, and other critical material processes without the maintenance of multiple warehouses.
- See how your business can create unique putaway and picking rules based on storage locations vs. storage types or other criteria.
- See how you can flatten your WM hierarchy yet manage diverse inventory and material movements, while you also support inventory accounting goals.
Map your IM storage locations and WM warehouses the right way
Many companies struggle with whether they should use SAP Warehouse Management (WM) or only SAP Inventory Management (IM). Although this decision is important, another critical issue is the optimization of the mapping between your WM warehouses and IM storage locations (correct mapping minimizes material movement requirements and allows for optimized supply chain processes). Watch this session to:
- Step through the essential criteria that will determine when you should use a warehouse as your storage facility, or whether a storage location will suffice.
- Fine-tune this mapping for material with widely different characteristics — e.g., crate parts, pick parts, bulk parts, or backflushed parts.
- Learn the preferred methods to storing parts with widely different uses and requirements.
What's going on in my warehouse? How to track, monitor, and correct warehouse operations using SAP's reporting tools
Delve into the SAP reporting and analytics capabilities that can help you determine if warehouse activities are being performed correctly and in a timely manner. Watch this session to:
- See which reports are best sourced or developed from R/3, which are best supported by mySAP ERP, and when SAP BW (BI) is your best option.
- Discover standard reports that help you determine how well your warehouse is operating compared to industry standards and KPIs.
- Find out when you can leverage existing reports and when you have to build your own custom reports.
- Learn how to quickly and easily report on inventory movements, such as the amount of time that lapses between goods receipt and putaway.
- See how to generate reports that tell you which storage units are being optimized or suboptimized.
- Discover little-known ways to generate detailed cost and man hour reports.
Tips and techniques to leverage R/3 analytic tools and improve inventory performance
Explore the analysis tools available within Inventory Management (IM) that can help you realize up to a 30% inventory value reduction. Watch this session to:
- See you how to use standard R/3 tools and reports for better analysis, master data management, and ultimately reduced inventory values and improved availability and customer service levels.
- See practical examples of how to apply ABC classification, dual classification, time series, and comparisons to locate where the highly predictable and fast-moving materials are within your inventories.
- See how this identification can result in lower inventory averages and an automated purchasing process.
- Leverage the standard stock analysis reports to quickly identify stockouts in inventories with high demand.
- See how to apply this intelligence to improve material requirements planning (MRP) types and lot sizes to increase stock.
Expert guidance for generating better inventory reports
Master the inventory reporting options available in your SAP system to accurately keep track of stock. Watch this session to:
- Discover Inventory Management (MM-IM) reporting options that help you determine the quantities of purchased stock based on five scenarios: stock ordered but not received, stock on back order, available stock in the warehouse, stock reserved for customer orders or production, and stock undergoing quality inspection.
- Identify which key activities and decisions in Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), Quality Management (QM), and Warehouse Management (WM) depend on the reliability of MM-IM reports.
- See why and how stock reports at the batch level are set up differently than reports at the item level.
- Identify the standard MM-IM reports that provide a breakdown of stock levels according to plant and storage location.
- Get tips to ensure that MM-IM stock valuation reports reconcile with stock values in your Financial Accounting (FI) system.
- Find out if it is essential to run a list of stock values, as well as consistency check reports, on a frequent basis to ensure the accuracy of your inventory data.
Optimize inventories and reduce operational costs across your supply chain using standard R/3 tools and reports
Get tips and techniques for using standard R/3 transactions, tools, and reports to improve process integration across your value chain. Watch this session to:
- See how to increase service levels to customers and among internal departments.
- Delve into three types of process measurements — when activities take place, volume level, and turnaround time — and their effects on inventories, stock, and customer service levels.
- Take a detailed look at the exception monitor and the functionality it offers to ensure exceptions occur at increasingly shorter intervals.
- Get tips to set up and measure the volume and turnaround (lead time) of your critical supply chain process, such as procure-to-stock or procure-to-sales order, using SAP information structures.
- Use data from SAP’s standard analytic reports that reflect the historic results of process and exception actions to analyze the number of rejects, customer returns, or shelf life in the procure-to-stock and other processes.
Best practices to manage lead-time performance and ensure more predictable and dependable stock levels
Get best practices to manage lead-time performance, increase your ability to automate the purchase order process, and ensure stock levels are more predictable and dependable. Watch this session to:
- See real-life examples of how false supplier lead times spur Available-to-Promise (ATP) and material requirements planning (MRP) to create inflated stock quantities throughout the supply chain to compensate for the error.
- View examples of supplier engagement and collaboration that work toward reducing inventory averages and increasing customer availability through proper planning and scheduling actual lead times.
- Compare and contrast how to manage and maintain lead-time data in the material master vs. the info record.
Dynamic cycle counting, cross-docking, and yard management in SCM Extension Set 2.0 (for SAP R/3 Enterprise and mySAP ERP)
With the release of SCM 4.7 Extension Set 2.0 comes the top two most requested functions — cross docking and dynamic cycle counting. Cross docking enables you to dynamically map inbound shipments to output requirements, bypassing the putaway and pick process entirely. Dynamic cycle counting lets you conduct inventory counts without locking bins. Watch this session to:
- See both solutions in action, and learn the configuration requirements for each.
- Learn how to view inbound shipments in the Cross Docking Workbench and manually or automatically assign them to outbound requirements so there are no more delays from having to put away goods or stage workarounds.
- Explore possible next steps once you’ve implemented cross docking.
- Understand how each solution integrates with Yard Management, and consider if this solution is something you should include in your implementation plans.