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Catch Weight Management Integration to SAP S/4HANA Extended Warehouse Management

Overview:

Catch Weight Management (CWM) is an industry-specific function for the requirements of the consumer products industry in general, and the food processing industry in particular.

The major focus segment of CWM are

  • Livestock, meat, fish, dairy(Cheese), fruits/Vegetables, lumber. leather.

One of the basic requirements of the food processing industry is that many of the materials used have to be managed within the whole logistics chain in two independent units of measure, for example, in pieces and kilograms.

A catch weight material within the supply chain in two units of measure that are independent of each other:

  • Base unit of measure

  • Parallel unit of measure

Within the value chain, you can choose whether the valuation quantity is to be based on the base unit of measure or the parallel unit of measure. SAP suggest parallel UOM as ‘Valuation UOM’.

 

SAP Suggests:  This core functionality  within the context of CWM is that the Base Unit of Measure = Countable like PC, Case, Parallel UOM= Measurable( KG, GM, L). (Consulting note 2668177).

Catch weight management is well integrated to SAP EWM and following integration is possible.

  • Effects in Master data
  • Catch Weight in the Inbound & Outbound Delivery

  • Catch weight in Handling units

  • Catch weight in Physical Inventory

  • Catch weight during Deconsolidation

  • Catch weight in Quality Management

  • Catch weight fields in Radio Frequency( Inbound, Outbound, Physical Inventory)

  • Catch weight in Staging & Consumption of PMR items.

  • Catch weight in Repetitive Manufacturing.

 

This blog is written to unravel some of the above mentioned business process.

Integration to Handling units.

System allows to change Catch weight Quantity in Inbound delivery before GR when forming the HU.

An inbound delivery containing 4 piece each weighing 12.3 kilogram. In  warehouse, it is required to weigh the individual items prior to goods receipt posting. This can be changed when forming the HU items. During goods receipt, to capture the weight variation, there is an additional field called valuation quantity which is required to be changed.

Valuation Measurement.

The moment valuation quantity is measured, it gets changed to value A

 

Additional fields display, recording of Valuation Quantity in Radio frequency( RF)

During putaway, picking or during psychical inventory process, RF is fully integrated to capture the weight variation during this processes.

The catch weight relevant material(CW) is marked with indicator and relevant valuation quantity field is displayed.

 

One can find more relevant logical steps which is called in RF in background.

Integration to S/4 Delivery 

S/4 system is also capable of recording the valuation qty( Catch weight Quantity) if there is any.

 

Integration to picking process in EWM.

The picking warehouse task shows the product is ”Catch weight Relevant”.

During Warehouse task confirmation, there is an additional field to capture the weight variation of product.

 

Stock display in Warehouse Monitor.

There is an additional field called as Overall Valuation Qty gets displayed in Monitor depicting Catch weight relevant product.

 

CWM offers the above processes and functions with which materials can be managed within the supply chain (sales, purchase, materials management, production, quality management and logistics execution) in two units of measure that are independent of each other. There are also functions available for costing and inventory management as well as integration with Financial Accounting and Controlling, in order to map the requirements from the valuation area.

Thanks for reading, hope you liked the blog. Any suggestions, improvement to make the blog more productive will be highly valued.

All testing is performed in S/4 HANA EWM 2020 FPS01 Embedded version.

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      Author's profile photo Amit Sharma
      Amit Sharma

      Hello Shailesh,

      Very useful and well-explained blog.

      Thank you for sharing 🙂

      Regards,

      Amit

      Author's profile photo RAJESH SHARMA
      RAJESH SHARMA

      Hi, Salesh Very clean and nice explanation very useful blog keep it up

      Author's profile photo Adi Mogilevsky
      Adi Mogilevsky

      Let’s complicate your scenario.

      Let’ assume your handling unit should be transported in containers, which are returnable serialised materials also managed through embedded TM Transport Units.

      How will you know which Containers are empty and available and which ones are not available and full of goods?

      Also when these containers are to be returned from your Customers to you?

      Author's profile photo Consultor SAP
      Consultor SAP

      Hi Adi.

      You actually complicated it at all.

      Where does it happenning? In what kind of industry?

       

      Best REgards.

       

      Jabu

      Author's profile photo Dang Bao Van
      Dang Bao Van

      Hello Mishra,

      Thanks for the post, it's very useful.

      Author's profile photo KHALED Abdelkrim
      KHALED Abdelkrim

      Hello Shailesh,

      Very useful blog ! Thanks a lot !

      I am working for the first time on SAP EWM and I am trying to unwind this flow but I can't get the check mark CW Relevant as well as the additional fields to enter the parallel quantity while my item is CW relevant.

      Are there any other prerequisites to make this flow work

      Thank you in advance and keep it up

      Abdelkrim KHALED

      Author's profile photo Hedy ALIX
      Hedy ALIX

      Hi , Any Best Practices ? can't find anything in the SAP Best Practices Explorer

      Author's profile photo Joaquin Armengot Novoa
      Joaquin Armengot Novoa

      Hello shailesh mishra,

      Did you try to consume to production order with C&W with RF?. It´s not possible, same issue as serial numbers. Why?. Good question to SAP. In you post you did a pick process or an inventor count, why not a consume to order?.

      I did in 1909, maybe in 2020 or 2021 this was solved?.

       

      Thanks.

       

      Regards.

      Author's profile photo Mehmet Ozgur Unal
      Mehmet Ozgur Unal

      Hi Mishra,

      It will be useful guide who wants yo benefit from catch weight management on Ewm.

      Thanks for sharing.

      Br

      Ozgur