Every company is legally required to carry out a physical inventory of warehouse stocks at least once a year to balance the physical stocks with the book figures. SAP Retail supports a number of physical inventory methods, and enables you to carry out a physical inventory for warehouses and stores.

Physical inventory is supported by a number of functions, including:

• A number of different physical inventory methods such as periodic inventory, or continuous inventory
• Creation and printing of physical inventory documents
• Upload of data entered by portable data capture to the SAP system
• Goods movement block for the duration of the physical inventory
• Entry of the count results and comparison with the book balance
• Sending physical inventory documents in the form of intermediate documents (IDocs) from the head office to the store.
• Receipt and processing of the results of the count from a store in the form of intermediate documents (IDocs)
• Count results check, count result changes and recount, if required
• Adjustment of the inventory differences and correction of the values on the stock accounts of Financial Accounting
• Evaluation of the physical inventory using the physical inventory history