Reporting in Inventory Management (SAP Library - Inventory Management and Physical Inventory (MM-IM))

Reporting in Inventory Management

Use

To simplify your day-to-day work with the Inventory Management component, there are a range of functions and reports that provide extensive information on all materials with their stock data.

This section provides an overview of the reporting function in Inventory Management. For more information, refer to the documentation on each function or the relevant report documentation.

Features

Environment Menu

List displays

This provides reports for documents posted in Inventory Management. Example: material documents for a material.

Stock

This provides information on a material’s stocks. Example: current stock/requirements list.

The stock overview provides an overview of all stocks of a material over all organizational levels (see also Plant/Storage Location Stocks).

Information

This allows you to display data (master data, transaction/movement data) from other applications. Example: displaying a purchase order.

Balances display

This provides reports on the GR/IR clearing account.

Consignment

You can use this to display all information on consignment stocks. Example: displaying vendor consignment stocks.

Batch where-used list

This provides all the functions on the Batch Where-used List.

Batch search strategy

You use this to define the strategies for Batch Determination.

Inventory Controlling

You can also analyze and evaluate material stocks using Inventory Controlling. For more information, refer to the LO – Logistics Information System component.

Periodic Processing Menu

List of stock values

This report is used to display the total stock quantity and the total stock value for a material at plant and storage location level.

Consistency check

You can use this to check the consistency of your stocks at company code level, valuation area level, and material level.

Managing held data

When you enter a goods receipt, this function allows you to display and delete data that you have held for further processing but not yet posted.

Analysis of rounding differences

This function allows you to analyze rounding differences that resulted from conversion between units of entry and base units. This applies when you work with a material with metric and non-metric units of measurement, for example.

Activities

For the reports that work with the ABAP List Viewer, you can configure the output list as you require to display and evaluate further data. To extend the current display variant (basic list) or choose another existing display variant, choose Settings ® Display variant. You can also create your own display variants and choose them on the initial screen. For more information on the ABAP List Viewer, see the ABAP List Viewer component.