Copying a Material Document (SAP Library - Inventory Management and Physical Inventory (MM-IM))

Copying a Material Document

If you want to copy items from an existing material document when you create a new document, you can use either of the two functions described in the following sections.

Copying a Material Document

To enter a new document by copying the items from another document, select Material document ® Copy (from the Inventory Management menu).

As in the function Material document ® Cancel, you enter the document number of the reference document on the initial screen. The items of the reference document are proposed on an item selection screen. All of the data for these selected items (for example, movement type, material, and quantity) is copied into the new document.

Entering a Material Document with Reference to Another Document

Use this function to copy items from one or more material documents when you enter a goods movement.

When you enter a goods movement (for example, a goods issue), select Goods movement (goods issue) ® Create w.reference ® To material doc... or Material document ® Reference.

A dialog box appears in which you enter the document number(s) of the document(s) to be copied.

You can copy the items from the other material documents any of the following ways:

Press ENTER. The item selection screen appears. On this screen, you can select the items to be copied.

Choose Copy to adopt all of the items on the material documents entered. The overview screen appears.

Choose Copy + details to adopt all of the items on the material documents entered. The detail screen of the first item appears.

You can choose Edit ® Cancel on the detail screen to skip the current item if you do not want to copy that item.