In Inventory Management, you can use SAP ArchiveLink to store print-format documents in external content servers. You can store the following documents with this function:

• Incoming print-format documents for goods receipts for purchase orders and goods movements without reference (for example, delivery notes from vendors or goods receipt/issue slips).
• Inventory count results that have been entered on paper

The scanned print-format documents are stored in an external content server and linked with the R/3 documents upon which they are based. You can display the stored print-format documents from the display of the R/3 documents.

You configure storage for print-format documents in Customizing.

In Customizing for Inventory Management, in the step Activate Storage for Incoming Documents, you define for each transaction and movement type whether you want to store the incoming documents.

In Customizing for SAP ArchiveLink, in Administration Settings ® Activate Bar Code Storage, you specify whether you want to store documents containing physical inventory count results with bar codes.