Inventory Management: Contents

Settings for goods movements

Settings for reservations
Settings for new movement types
Settings for reporting functions

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Inventory Management: Unit Objectives

After working through this unit, you will be able to:
List the important settings for Inventory

Management transactions and implement them

with the help of the IMG
Activate the dynamic availability check for

Inventory Management transactions

Create a new movement type

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Number Assignment for Goods Movements

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Material documents
Transaction type 1
(WE)

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Transaction type 2
(WA)

Transaction type 3
(WI)

Group 1
(Goods receipts
for purchase order)

Group 2
(Other goods movements,
physical inventory differences)

To year: number interval 1

(1999: 50 000 000 --50 999 999

To year: number interval 2

(1999: 49 000 000 --49 999 999

Accounting documents
Transaction

Document type

Number range
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Number interval
(Depending on year and company code)

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The transaction or event type assigned to a goods movement may not be changed.
Internal number assignment is defined for material documents.
For Italy there is the option of defining external or internal number assignment for GR/GI slips.

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Screen Layout for Goods Movements

Field selection for

movement type

Field selection rules

for G/L account

Field selection for:

Goods issues, transfer postings, other inward movements
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In addition, the system checks whether the field selection for the G/L account matches up with the field
selection for the posting key of the transaction.
RM07CUFA : Movement Type G/L Account Field Selection .

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Field Selection for Goods Movements: Special

Aspects
Customizing

11

Enter goods movement

11

Configure manual account

assignment for each
movement type

Account for offsetting entry

to inventory posting

Mandatory Optional Suppressed

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Reason for movement:

- Define key

On detail screen:
Reason for movement Field

- Define field selection for

each movement type

Mandatory entry
Optional entry
Suppressed
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Further Settings for Goods Movements

Customizing

Application

Copying rules for reference

documents

Are suggested items pre-selected?

Phys. Inv. docs for goods movements

- for plant
- for movement type

Inventory adjustment posting from

Warehouse Management System Phys.
inv. doc. in addition to material doc.

Sequence of BOM withdrawals

Sequence of stock types from which the

requested quantity should be taken

Tolerance limits

Any there any GR variances?

Set delivery completed indicator

Should the delivery completed

indicator be suggested automatically?

GR reversal despite invoice in case of

GR-based Invoice Verification?

Is a reverse posting allowed?

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You can make settings for the following kinds of goods movements :
Goods issues/transfer postings
Goods receipts
Automatic movements (such as goods issues for an SD delivery, goods movements for
repetitive manufacturing orders, inventory adjustment postings, batch status changes).
Separate movement types have been defined for each of these groups of goods movements.

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Movement Types (1)

View

... dependent on

... settings for

Movement type

Movement type

Entry control (printing, field

status/batches)
Update control (automatic LORT,
statistics, physical inventory)

Short texts

Movement type
Special stock indicator
Movement indicator
Inward movement indicator
Consumption indicator

Description of movement

Permitted R/3
transactions

Movement type

When may the movement type be

used?

Help texts

Movement type
Special stock indicator

Extended text

Field selection/
batch search

Movement type
Special stock indicator

Field selection string, schema for

batch determination
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The movement type is a central control parameter for goods movements. When you create a new
movement type, you reference one of the model movement types. The latters control indicator appears
as the default value for the new movement type.
You maintain various views for a movement type on the relevant screens. The parameters for the
individual views are defined depending on various key terms.
You choose a value string and a quantity string for the movement type. The value string controls the G/L
account determination for transactions or events covered by the movement type (see also the unit on
valuation and account assignment), whereas the quantity string controls the updating of material master
fields.
You can also maintain the parameters for existing movement types using the function for configuring
new movement types.
The work area that you specify when entering this transaction must include all movement types that you
want to access during configuration.

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Movement Types (2)

View

... dependent on

... settings for

Update control
WMS movement
type

Movement type, value/quantity

updates, special stock indicator,
movement indicator, inward
movement indicator, consumption
indicator

Entry control (availability check,

missing parts processing)
update control (WMS, QM)
value/quantity string

Account grouping

Movement type, special stock

indicator, value/quantity updates,
movement indicator, consumption
indicator, transaction/event key
from value string

Account grouping code

Reversal/follow-on
movement types

Movement type, function code

Reversal movement type

Reason for
movement

Movement type, key for reason

Description of reason

Statistics group
LIS

Movement type, special stock

indicator, movement indicator

Statistical update control

(LIS)
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Settings for Reservations

Number range with interval
Default values for mvt allowed indicator
Copying rules

Enter a reservation

Dynamic availability check

Field selection

<

11

Reqt date
Current date + days 1
Movement allowed
indicator set

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Reqt date
Current date - days 2
Reservation flagged
for deletion

<

Retention time (Days 2 )

Reservation management
program
=

Days for movement allowed (Days 1 )

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If the dynamic availability check has been set to active for a certain type of reservation, existing
material requirements are taken into account in the availability check.
The field selection can be influenced as a function of the movement type.

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Dynamic Availability Check

Movement type
Material
Availability check
indicator
Check
availability

Message on
screen

Goods movement
Checking rule

Customizing

Customizing

Customizing

- Definition of checking
rules

- Stock types
- Inward/outward elements
- Take account of
replenishment lead time?

Type of message

- Assignment of checking
rule to R/3 transaction

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You can activate the dynamic availability check in Customizing for entering reservations and goods
movements. The system then carries out the dynamic check in addition to the routine static availability
check.

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Generating Messages in Inventory Management

Message schema ME0001
Message types

Condition

Entry of goods
movement
- Print indicator

(Loop)

- Movement type
- Version

Message type WE01

Print parameter
Access sequence
Message record
exists
yes
Printer
determination

no
Continue with next
message type

3.) Flexible printer determ.

1.) Manual input
2.) Specification in message record

Message
generated
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Message determination in Inventory Management is similar to the process used in Purchasing.

You define which printers (logical printer name) the system can use to print out documents for goods
movements.
You can define a separate print indicator for a return delivery to a vendor and assign it to the movement
type for return deliveries.
For printing out documents relating to goods movements, you can either retain the form supplied in the
standard system or design one of your own using SAP script functions.
There are separate settings for printing labels.

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Inventory Management: Summary

You can make many of the individual settings for

Inventory Management transactions when you

maintain the movement types.
You can also activate a dynamic availability check

as to whether physical stocks are available, in

addition to the static check that the system carries
out when goods movements and reservations are
entered.

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