Warehouse structure
A warehouse is a physical location where goods are inventoried. Optimizing warehouse space and keeping the product at the appropriate location within the warehouse helps you track and ship products in a timely fashion. SAP warehouse management provides an automated way of processing goods movement in a complex warehouse setup. Warehouse management is integrated with inventory management, quality management, production supply, delivery processing, and transportation. If you are not using warehouse management, then the lowest level of your inventory will be at the storage location level.
The warehouse structure assignment process can be seen in the following diagram:
Figure 5.1 – Warehouse master data structure
The warehouse that's created by the system is assigned to the storage location; the storage type is assigned to the warehouse; the storage section is assigned to the storage type; and the storage bins are assigned...
