Lets focus on the question, not on particular details.
I liked the question as I have never seen a logical explanation why I should putaway material to bins which have not yet been received.
Usually the docu says you do inbound deliveries for better planning. Okay an Advanced shipping notification received via EDI with good details that automatically creates the inbound delivery certainly helps on one hand.
On the other hand warehouse guys have their difficulties to understand why material A is done with Inbound delivery and material B not, or even material A from another vendor has no inbound delivery.
we had always the focus to post just in time and keep the info in SAP current. Which is usually posting goods receipt, then putaway what was received.
Doing this putaway first actually opens a kind of negative stock management what we always tried to avoid in IM.
What is the business case (apart from eWM that gets feeded with deliveries) to post a putaway earlier than the GR?
Whats the reason to not post the GR when it happened?
is the early putaway even prior to the physical receipt, just to reserve a space?