10. Wave Management

Wave management improves picking process in the warehouse.

Warehouse requests generated for outbound delivery order can be combined into waves based on customer, route, activity area, and so on, and we can plan the creation of warehouse picking tasks for these warehouse requests simultaneously.

These tasks are then grouped into warehouse orders that are assigned to resources, which helps to optimize the picking process.

Grouping of Warehouse Request Items into Waves

Step 1.	Maintain Wave Types (ZCST-WT01)
IMG	SCM Extended Warehouse Management-EWM-Goods Issue Process-Wave Management-General Settings- Maintain Wave Types

Wave Types are used for accessing and filtering waves in the warehouse monitor.

Step 2.	Maintain Wave Category (ZCST-C1)
IMG	SCM Extended Warehouse Management-EWM-Goods Issue Process-Wave Management-General Settings- Maintain Wave Categories

Wave Categories are used as filters for determination of warehouse order creation rules.

Step 3.	Automatic Wave Generation for Warehouse Process Type (ZCST-2010)
IMG	SCM Extended Warehouse Management-EWM-Goods Issue Process-Wave Management-General Settings- Set Automatic Wave Generation for Warehouse Process Type

Automatic wave generation enables either the creation of a new wave or assignment of a warehouse request item to an existing
wave

Step 4.	Maintain Wave Capacity Profile
IMG	SCM Extended Warehouse Management-EWM-Goods Issue Process-Wave Management-General Settings-Maintain Wave Capacity Profiles

Wave Capacity Profile is set up to limit the maximum number of warehouse request items that can be assigned to a wave template.

Step 5.	Maintain Wave Template for Warehouse (ZCST)
TCODE	/SCWM/WAVETMP
	Wave Method (Automatic, Immediate, Manual) Define Time Attribute

Wave templates are containers for control parameters used to create waves for a warehouse request.

Step 6.	Wave Template Determination
IMG	SCM Extended Warehouse Management-EWM-Goods Issue Process-Wave Management-Wave Template Determination
	Define Determination Procedure Assign Procedure to Document type (Condition Technique)

Step 6.1	Maintain Condition Maintenance Group
IMG	SCM Extended Warehouse Management-EWM-Goods Issue Process-Wave Management-Wave Template Determination -Define Condition Maintenance Group

Step 7.	Maintain Condition Record for Wave Template
TCODE	/SCWM/WDGCM EA-EWM-Work Scheduling-Wave Management-Maintain Conditions for Determining Wave Templates
	Condition record example, Warehouse Number, Document Category and Template combination

Step 8.	Create Wave manually (Optional)
TCODE	/SCWM/WAVE
	Assign Wave Template Assign Outbound Deliveries in Warehouse Requests Save and Release Wave System will generate warehouse tasks

Step 9.	Test Wave Scenario
VA01 VL01N /SCWM/PRDO /SCWM/MON	Created Sales Order Created multiple outbound deliveries Outbound delivery documents replicated to EWM Wave #400011 Created for 2 outbound deliveries

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