Questionnaire for Warehouse Management Module

or requirements Understanding / Understanding client business Process

Project Title

Questionnaire for WM Module

Conducted By:

Venkat Rao.T

Company:

Zieta Technologies

Contact:
Address:

9738665507
Bangalore

Date:

00-00-0000

Desg : SAP MM Consultant

Q1) List down storage location relevant for Warehouse Management. ?

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Q2) Do you have storage locations, which are not relevant for Warehouse
Management?
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Q3) Will you use storage locations for more than one plant? Name these storage
locations and the relevant plants.
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Q4) Describe the structure of your warehouse!
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Q5) Do you have warehouses with STOCK of different plants?
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Q6) List down Door define in the system?
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Q7) List down picking define in the system?
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Q8) Are you using external Warehouse control systems / subsystems? Do you plan to connect this system with
the R/3?
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Q9) Are you using bar-code / RFID system and interface with SAP?
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Q10) Are you using any external system determining the storage bins for STOCK placement / remove? If yes
then which system should determine the storage bins for stock placement / remove?
Q11) For removals and batch management, which system should determine the batch?
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Q12) Which system should generate the transport orders ?
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Q13) How does your automated storage and retrieval system communicate to the legacy system? Explain or
provide a design drawing.
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Q14) Are your using SUT management?
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Q15) Are pallets managed in the system with a unique number?
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Q16) Are pallets managed in the system with a unique number?
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Q17) Are materials posted to quality inspection after goods receipt, or are they in unrestricted-use stock?
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Q18) Can goods be issued directly from the goods receipt area?
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Q19) Do you post your materials to "blocked stock"?
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Q20) Do you post your materials to return delivery stock?
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Q21) Describe the individual steps from external goods receipt to final placement in storage (putaway).
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Q22) Do you have capacity limits for your storage bins, for example, weight, volume...?
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Q23) Is a transfer requirement is generating automatically at the time of a goods receipt with reference?
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Q24) For which goods movements are transfer orders to be created automatically?
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Q25) What kind of form (printout) are you taking for stock putaways (GR slip, transfer order form, sticker, etc.)?
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Q26) Is procured material pending inspection posted to stock or does it remain in the goods receipt storage
area? What happens with the samples: - Keep in GR area - post to stock - move to inspection area?
Explanation: Will procured material pending inspection be placed into permanent storage or remain in the
goods receipt storage area? What happens with the sample: - Keep in GR area - place into warehouse - move
to inspection area?
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Q27) Which parameters determine your putaway strategies?
Explanation: Storage type search
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Q28) Do you print the stock placement (putaway) document when the transfer order is created?
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Q29) Are transfer orders confirmed manually or automatically?
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Q30) Please list the storage types that have auto placement confirmation.
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Q31) Are you maintaining placement strategies (for example, storage types, storage sections, storage
bins) for your STOCK materials? If yes then what type of placement strategies are you using?
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Q32) How many storage bins do you have per storage type?
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Q33) How many stock putaways (items) do you have per day?
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Q34) Do you have consignment stock from vendors?
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Q35) Do you receive articles that have batch or serial numbers from vendors?
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Q36) Do you create a pre-allocation of your materials within warehouse management?
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Q37) Do you group together your pick list for multiple processing for a particular shipping point, route, pick
date, stock placement, stock removal?
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Q38) How do you handle stock differences that are noticed either at the time of transfer order
confirmation or continuous inventory based on bin-to-bin transfer?
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Q39) Are transfer orders confirmed separately or automatically by the system?
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Q40) How much time elapses between delivery of the goods and their inspection, and between inspection
and the arrival of the goods at their final destination? the destination bin.
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Q41) How are the picking results confirmed?
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Q42) Which documentation should accompany the goods that are returned to the vendor?
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Q43) Which documentation should accompany the goods that are returned to the vendor?
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Q44) Which movement types will you use for posting changes?
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[ ] Stock in quality inspection to unrestricted-use stock
[ ] Blocked stock to stock in quality inspection
[ ] Unrestricted-use stock to stock in quality inspection
[ ] Change in material number
[ ] Batch split
[ ] Consignment stock to own stock
[ ] Other
Q45) What type of documentation (forms) is to be generated in the case of transfer postings?
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Q46) Are you using any workflow to inform of a transfer posting?

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Q47) Do you use storage-bin-to-storage-bin stock transfers?
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Q48) Do you have warehouses with stock of different plants?
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Q49) Do you carry out complete pallet removals and subsequent return transfers? If so, to which location
is the merchandise returned?
Explanation: Withdrawal of whole pallet = requirement to remove all stock
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Q50) Will you maintain picking strategies?
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Q51) Are pallets managed in the system with a unique number?
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Q52) Is a transfer order is generating automatically at the time of a goods receipt with reference?
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Q53) For which goods movements are transfer orders are created automatically?
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Q54) What are the various user-exits that are used and for what purposes?
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Q55) What is the number of SAP Warehouse management users?
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Q56) What are the different outputs you use? Whether you use print out or email or fax or some other
medium to send the outputs?
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Q57) Do you have following documents?
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[ ] As-is To-Be document
[ ] Business blue print
[ ] User manual
[ ] Configuration documents
[ ] Test cases used for testing your system
[ ] Any other documents (Please specify)

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Q58) Are you using any Work Around? (Please Specify)

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Q59) How many Z-Developments are their in your system? (Specify the T. codes & Use)
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Q60) Do you have any core team?
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Q61) Do you use interfaces to transfer data to or from SAP?
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