SAP Warehouse Robotics/Automation

Integration services for SAP Warehouse Robotics is an on-premise product. You can use it to integrate SAP Warehouse Robotics and physical robots to move handling units (HUs) from source storage bins to destination storage bins in a warehouse.

You can use integration services for SAP Warehouse Robotics in the following ways:

• To deploy the required services in the Kubernetes environment per edge node
• To receive warehouse orders assigned from SAP Warehouse Robotics
• To report robot statuses and warehouse order processing statuses to SAP Warehouse Robotics
• To store warehouse orders and warehouse tasks locally to allow a robot to process warehouse tasks in case of intermittent network
• To integrate with physical robots to move the handling units in a warehouse

Components of Integration Services for SAP Warehouse Robotics

Integration services for SAP Warehouse Robotics consists of the following components:

• Custom resource (CR) synchronization module (Syncer)
• Warehouse robot controller
• Robot adapter

The CR Syncer is responsible for synchronizing robots, robot commands, and warehouse orders. The warehouse robot controller and robot adapter work together to process robot tasks using the following steps:

• The warehouse robot controller receives warehouse orders and robot commands from SAP Warehouse Robotics.
• The warehouse robot controller calls the robot adapter to create robot tasks.
• The robot adapter sends robot tasks to the physical robot for processing.
• The robot adapter tracks the robot task status and reports the status changes to the warehouse robot controller.