You post a goods receipt for a purchase order by choosing  Logistics ® Materials management ® Inventory management ® Goods movement ® Goods receipt ® For purchase order ® PO number known (or PO number unknown) from the SAP main menu bar. On the initial screen you enter, among other fields, the movement type, for example 101.

The system reads the table in which the IM movement type is assigned to a reference movement type and finds that the movement type 101 for a goods receipt is in the table. This movement type 101 points to reference movement type (Ref column) 101. If the reference movement type is 999, then the movement in IM has no impact on WM.

For instructions on how to define movement types and to display the table that links IM and WM movement types, see the section on the interface to Inventory Management in the Warehouse Management IMG documentation.

You can also display WM data when you are posting the goods receipt based on a purchase order in IM. On the screen for the individual item of a purchase order you can select a function to display WM information. This information includes the movement type, warehouse number and storage type, and an indicator that shows that a transfer requirement should be prepared for the specified movement type.