EWM refers to the Extended Warehouse Management and the full title is SAP EWM or Ag’s Supply Chain Management Extended Warehouse Management. This refers to products that are analyzed. The information from these products are placed into a software platform.
This first began in 1993. It was updated and added to every year or two years after that. In EWM, there are two types of stocks called the physical stock and the available stock. There are several differences between the physical stock and available stock in EWM.
These differences include that physical stock refers to the amount of products or goods that is physically in a store or warehouse. Available stock refers to the amount of physical goods or products that is available for use and it refers to goods that are not currently distributed to sales order.
Physical stock refers to the amount of products or goods that is physically in a store or warehouse.
Available stock refers to the amount of physical goods or products that is available for use, it also refers to good that are not currently distributed to sales order.
Physical stock is what is physically located on the bin, the available stock shows what is available for movements, takings open putaway or picking warehouse tasks into account.