Everyone who was involved in implementations of latest EWM S/4HANA releases. Knows how much missing was feature of automatic creation of warehouse product after switch from CIF interface.
S/4HANA decentralized EWM uses IDOC integration for transfering of master data from ECC.
S/4HANA embedded EWM shares core with S/4HANA.
From SAP we had side note:
This option is not available in an SAP S/4HANA embedded EWM, or in an SAP S/4HANA based decentral EWM, because CIF is not used. That means that in this landscape, the warehouse products need to be created separately. Besides the manual creation (in the warehouse product transaction, or in the warehouse management monitor), this can also be done by using the slotting process.
We have following options:
First option:
Manually.
Create warehouse product views manually via /SCWM/MAT1 one-by-one
Create warehouse product views manaully via /SCWM/MON via new node which allows us to batch create warehouse product views and mass change.
Second option:
With help of slotting process.
Use slotting report which does same if warehouse product view wasn't already created.
Via scheduling of report /SCWM/CONCEPT and its variant ( warehouse number / party entitled to dispose ) on regular basis.
Third option:
Custom development. Via FM's
/SCWM/MATERIAL_WHSE_VIEW_EXIST -> to check if warehouse product view exists
/SCWM/MATERIAL_WHST_MAINT_MULT -> for creation of warehouse product view itself -> can be called once per LUW
Usually first option was rejected by customer with reason that nobody will take care about such basic stuff , second option was slow even without any slotting checks, third option had issue that it is custom development.
Nowadays there is fourth option which is fully automatic:
Via BTE (business transaction events).
With backwards compatibility to S4CORE 103,104,105,106
See attached notes:
3081583 - Automatic Creation of Warehouse Product when creating Products
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3081583
3081159 - Sample Coding for automatic warehouse product creation
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3081159
I hope that reading of this article was helpful to get overview up on options which S/4HANA EWM gives us.
And I wish you great day.
BR
Pavel Gabler