Basic Integration for SAP S/4HANA 1909 FPS1 and SAP Extended Warehouse Management

Introduction

This blog aims to demonstrate the basic settings in SAP S/4HANA 1909 – FPS1, mandatory for integration between SAP S/4HANA 1909 FPS1 and SAP Extended Warehouse Management embedded version.The idea is create a content parallel to the information provided on SAP notes 2806070 – SAP S/4HANA 1909: Release information and restrictions for EWM in SAP S/4HANA with screenshots, tips and results.

If you are activating Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA 1909 – FPS1 and you want configure SAP Extended Warehouse Management embedded version, you can follow the steps in order to get the basic integration SAP S/4HANA and SAP Extended Warehouse Management embedded version.

If you already is running SAP S/4HANA 1909 FPS1 and want to configure SAP Extended Warehouse Management embedded version on a existing Plant, you can follow the steps below. Particularly in this case, you have to use some existing entities, such as Plant and Storage location numbers selecting them from a predefined list on configuration steps.

Main Content

The topics described on attached document into SAP note 2806070 that we are going to follow in this guide are:

1. Basic Settings for SAP EWM in SAP S/4HANA

2. Configuration of qRFC Communication

Background Information About System Landscape Settings.
Technical Prerequisites for qRFC Communication.
Creating Dummy Logical System Manually.
Configuring qRFC Communication and Client Settings.

3.Warehouse Creation and Integration into the Enterprise Structure

Background Information About Warehouse Integration
Prerequisites for Warehouse Integration
Creating Organizational Units for the Warehouse
Creating and Integrating a SAP EWM Warehouse
Aligning HU Numbering
Activating Transaction Data Transfer

1. Basic Settings for SAP EWM in SAP S/4HANA

SAP provides the SAP Note 2806070 – SAP S/4HANA 1909: Release information and restrictions for EWM in SAP S/4HANA, where you can find the attachment document “BasicSettings_EWMinS4_V01“. Also you will find into the SAP note the document attachment “RIN1909_EWM_Deployment_differences_V1_8” which explore the main restrictions and differences for each deployment system recommended by SAP.

1.1 SAP S/4HANA Best Practices and EWM Scope solution

SAP provides the scope solution for Best Practices activation click here and you will find 11 scope solution defined for SAP Extended Warehouse Management, as we can see below.

2. Configuration of qRFC Communication

Use this step to configure the queued remote function call (qRFC) communication between SAP Extended Warehouse Management embedded version and SAP S/4HANA applications.

2.1 Background Information about system landscape settings

This topic gives an overview of the system landscape entities used in SAP Extended Warehouse Management embedded version, providing an example of possible pattern example for RFC and Logical system creation which supposed exist in your SAP S/4HANA. You can follow the example on the table below or define your own data.

2.2 Technical Prerequisites for qRFC Communication

The RFC Destination and RFC Connection S4H should be created in SAP S/4HANA system already. In order to not have connection issue, do a test by clicking on the Connection Test button on transaction code SM59

2.3 Creating Dummy Logical System manually

The Dummy Logical System for SAP Extended Warehouse Management will be created manually in this step on IMG path:

Integration with Other SAP Components/Extended Warehouse Management/Basic Settings for Setting Up the System Landscape/Name Logical System

2.4 Configuring qRFC Communication and Client Settings

After created the RFC and the Dummy Logical System we must use the procedure available to configure the following data with the wizard transaction “Implementation Tool for System Connection” in SAP Extended Warehouse Management

This wizard transaction code is able to setting the following steps:

System landscape settings for qRFC communication.

Basic number ranges (on client level) in

SAP Extended Warehouse Management including packaging specifications and shipping and receiving activities.

Warehouse-independent basic settings using BC Set activation within the tool.

3 Warehouse Creation and Integration into the Enterprise Structure

You use this process to create a EWM warehouse number and integrate it into the enterprise structure of SAP S/4HANA. This is supported by the Implementation Tool for Warehouse Integration.

This transaction code provides the following steps:

2. Prerequisites for Warehouse Integration

3. Creating Organizational Units for the Warehouse

4. Creating and Integrating a SAP Extended Warehouse Management

5. Aligning HU Numbering

6. Activating Transaction Data Transfer