Material Master - WM

The Warehouse Management Views

The master data for a material is divided into views. In most cases, these views
correspond to specific departments or activity areas in a company, for example,
Sales and Distribution, Purchasing, and Accounting. Each of these views contains a
collection of fields that are usually either indicators for accessing Customizing
tables, or values for specific applications. These values are often default values.
Warehouse Management has two specific views in the material master. Both views
must be created in order to put away the material.
The first Warehouse Management view only contains fields whose entries are valid
for a specific warehouse number. The second view also contains storage-typespecific information. When you create, change, and display the Warehouse
Management views, you must always enter the warehouse number in which you
want to store the material. If the material is used in more than one warehouse
number, you must create the Warehouse Management views for each warehouse
number.
You do not always have to enter values into the storage-type-specific fields in the
second Warehouse Management view. These fields are mainly used for materials
with fixed bins. Therefore, if you store a material in fixed bin storage, you must
assign its fixed bin in this view, in the Storage Bin field. This means that during
putaway, the Warehouse Management system can automatically assign the bin to
the material, and can also find it for use during stock removal.
Hint: When you create, change, and display the second WM view, you can only see
the storage-type-specific fields if you have previously defined a default storage type
when selecting the organizational units.
(My own) conclusion: For the system to be able to automatically select the
storage type and storage bins at transfer order level in the sales order
process, the necessary settings have to be made in WM views of the material
master AND WM Customizing -> since no settings of this sort are made for
our materials, we have to manually introduce the data necessary for picking
in the transfer order
There are many different types of storage bins which take into account the
material dimensions and batches (if the case)
Important to note here is that there can be fixed storage bins for specific
materials with specific capacity or storage bins with no capacity check which
can contain any number of materials and batches
Storage type is used to map storage spaces that are separated either
spatially or organizationally within the Warehouse
Storage bins are the exact containers where a material is stored like for
example boxes or wire baskets