Understanding Material Master WM1 and WM2 Views

Understanding Material Master WM1 and WM2 views.

This document describes the Warehouse management 1 and warehouse management 2 views of
material master. In the training session I have used a different material and different plant.Take some
time to understand this thoroughly.
You can use this guide to create your own material and extending them to your warehouse.Each field
serves a specific functionality .So you can create different materials for different scenarios using
reference from this document as required.

Warehouse Management 1 View in material master

Warehouse Management 1 View
This view is maintainable on Plant / Warehouse number organizational level. Warehouse
number is the top hierarchy level in warehouse management in SAP.
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1. Plant: organizational level
2. Warehouse number: organizational level
3. WM unit: unit that is used throughout the warehouse management. Every document in WM

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uses this unit of measure, no matter what is the original document UOM. For example, if you
create delivery for 12 pieces of Fly Wheel Assy.10 and we have defined in warehouse management
view that WM unit is PAL, in transfer orders 1 PAL will be shown instead of 12 PCS as the original
document (delivery)item was created.
4. Unit of issue: it comes from the Plant Data Storage 1 View. See the session on Material master to
understand this .
5. Proposed UoM for material: this indicator determines which unit of measure should be used in
warehouse management in conjunction with WM unit. This indicator can be set to use Unit of Issue
(defined here in material master), Order unit (unit in which the original document was created sales
order, delivery, reservation etc.), WM unit of measure, base unit of measure, and some additional
conditional possibilities (for example, if no other unit is specified use base unit of measure).
6. Stock removal indicator:This indicator is used to direct the system to a specific search sequence ,for
stock removal ,as defined in customizing .
For example, picking strategy for our material could be: first try to remove stock from high rack storage,
and if there is no stock there try picking from the shelves etc.
We will see the use of this indicator in action in our Stock removal process sessions.
7. Stock placement indictor: This indicator is used to direct the system to a specific search sequence
,for stock placement ,as defined in customizing .
For example when we do a goods receipt , we want the system to search different storage
types (areas) for placement in the warehouse.This indicator directs the system to a specific search
sequence i.e the order in which to search for a bin a storage types.
We will see the use of this indicator in action in our Storage Bin search for Put away session.
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8. Storage section indicator: Again similar to the above logic the storage section indicator is used to
direct search for put away in a specific sequence of storage sections within a storage type. The storage
section indicator is only used for Put away. For Picking Storage section indicator does not have any
influence .
9. Bulk storage indicator: this is used to indicate a special case for using up a bulk storage
type capacity.
10.Special Movement Indicator:The special movement indicator is used to indicate that the material is
subject to special movement. This is used in case we want a particular material to be processed
differently than the regular material interms of the put away process like direct put away to fixed bin or
immediate TO confirmation for this material etc.
11.2-Step Picking Indicator:This indicates that the material is subject to two step picking.The system will
check this indicator to include the material for two step picking process.
12.Hazardous Material :This is used to specify the hazardous material number .This is used if the
material is a hazardous material and has special requirements for storing in the warehouse.

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Warehouse Management 2 View in material master

Warehouse Management 2 View
This view is maintainable on one more level than the previous view.
The palletization data (quantities of material and types of pallets used) in the top section is maintained on
the warehouse /plant level.
If you choose to maintain data at a storage type level you will see additional section as seen in the lower
part. This section storage bin stock is maintainable at a storage type level.
1. Storage type: This is the storage type for which we are extending/maintaining our material. In this
case, we want our Fly wheel Assy. 10 to be stored at shelf storage.
2. Palletization data: This is information about how our material is packed onto different
storage unit types.
For example, our material is packed 12 pieces on Euro pallet 1m high (defined as E1 in our system).
A more clear idea can be obtained from the training session.
3. Storage bin: if we wanted to store our material in a predefined storage bin we would
maintain it in this field. This is the fixed bin for the material. This will be proposed every time we are
executing a putaway.
4. Maximum bin quantity:This is used in case we are used a capacity check for the bins.This quantity is
the maximum that could be stored in this bin. If the bin is full the system will give an error while doing a
put away. See the session on Forms of capacity check to understand this further.

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5. Minimum bin quantity: this should be maintained only if replenishment is active for the
storage type (mostly used in fixed bin storage types). In our case, if storage bin stock falls
below 1 (no more fly wheels in the storage bin) system would consider this material for replenishment
request when the Replenishment is run . This is used in conjunction with Replenishment quantity.
This functionality is covered in the session for Replenishment control.
6. Picking area: like storage sections are grouping bins together in putaway process, picking
areas group storage bins for picking process.
7. Control quantity: for certain removal strategies (min/max quantity) utilized on storage type level,
this is the quantity that signals the system that if the requested quantity for picking is higher
than defined in this field, system should skip this storage type and move on to the next in our
stock removal strategy. This is used in cases where we want to pick small quantities of
material from one type of storage, and large quantities from another storage type.
8. Replenishment quantity: when system determines that replenishment of our bin is needed it
will replenish with quantity in this field. We have defined that we want replenishment when
stock falls to zero, and we want it to be replenished by entire pallet 12 pieces.I have used a different
example in the session.But this is sufficient to explain.

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