Post 

Use

This function enables you to post waste quantities from Waste Management to inventory management in the SAP Materials Management component and, if required, to Warehouse Management (Warehouse Management System) in the SAP Logistics Execution component.

Integration

You can use certain functions in inventory management and Warehouse Management for the waste quantities posted. In inventory management you can, for example:

·        Store stock in different storage locations

·        Make an inventory

·        Use different stock types

For more information, see the Inventory Management and Warehouse Management System sections.

Postings, for example stock transfers, that you carry out directly in inventory management or Warehouse Management after you have posted a waste are not passed on to Waste Management. Postings of this type are therefore not taken into account in Waste Management either. This means that errors may occur when you want to make additional postings from Waste Management.

If, for example, you post a waste from Waste Management to a storage bin in Warehouse Management and then transfer the waste using the functions in this SAP component, an error message is displayed when you want to clear the waste from Waste Management. The system then attempts to clear the waste from the original storage bin, which is no longer possible. You can therefore only carry out the corresponding postings using the functions in Waste Management.

You can transfer stock in inventory management and Warehouse Management from Waste Management using the post change or storage bin transfer function.

Prerequisites

·        You have processed the IMG activity Set Inventory Management in Waste Management in Customizing for Waste Management and specified the required movement types.

·        In the material master for the wastes, you have entered the required data for the organizational units (plant and storage location, for example) to which data is to be posted. You must have created at least the General Plant Data / Storage 1 view for the organizational units, for example, and also the Warehouse Management 1 view for posting data to Warehouse Management.

·        In order for you to be able to post waste quantities to inventory management, you must have created entry documents for the waste quantities. These entry documents must contain at least the following data:

¡        Waste

¡        Waste generator

¡        Waste quantity and unit of measure

¡        Storage location and plant for disposal processing (corresponds to the plant for the storage location)

If you do not want to post the waste quantity to a storage bin in Warehouse Management at the same time, you cannot assign a warehouse number to the storage location in the IMG activity Assign Warehouse Number to Plant/Storage Location in Customizing for Enterprise Structure.

·        In order for you also to be able to post waste quantities to Warehouse Management, the entry documents must additionally contain the following data:

¡        Warehouse number

¡        Storage type

¡        Storage bin

In addition, the waste for the storage type must be created and the warehouse number must be assigned to the storage location under Assign Warehouse Number to Plant/Storage Location in Customizing for Enterprise Structure.

Features

The following postings are carried out and documents are created for each selected entry document:

·        The waste quantity is posted to inventory management in accordance with the data in the entry document (stock type, plant, storage location); a material document is created.

·        If you have specified the warehouse number, storage type, and storage bin in the entry document, data is posted to the specified storage bin in Warehouse Management. A quant is created or the quantity of a suitable existing quant is increased. Data is posted directly to the specified storage bin; no transfer requirement or transfer order is created. Nor does the system check whether the storage bin can take the waste. For more information, see the Warehouse Management component, for example The Quant and Stock Management in WM or Warehouse Structure in the Warehouse Management System.

If you want a transfer requirement and transfer order to be created and checks to be run for the storage bin, you must specify a function module for the function Post that carries out these operations when data is posted. You specify the function module under Specify Functions in Customizing for Waste Management.

·        A follow-on document record is created (see Automatic Creation of Follow-On Document Records).

The entry documents are given a defined status that depends on the settings you made in Customizing. They must have a particular status so that you can execute this function. For more information, see Setting Entry Document Statuses.

Activities

Proceed as follows to post the waste quantities of one or more entry documents:

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       1.      Choose Disposal Processing ® Edit Entry Documents in the Waste Management menu.

The Choose Entry Document Category dialog box appears.

This dialog box only appears the first time you access disposal processing after you have logged on to the SAP System. The next time you access disposal processing, the system automatically uses the entry document category that you chose last time.

If you mainly display and edit entry documents of one entry document category, you can predefine this entry document category in your user profile.

       2.      Choose the entry document category of the entry documents that you want to post and confirm your entry.

The Disposal Processing Change screen appears.

       3.      Enter the search criteria for the entry documents (see Searching for Entry Documents), and choose  with the quick info Hit List.

The entry documents that correspond to the search criteria are displayed under Doc. overview.

       4.      Select the entry documents and choose  Post.

The waste quantities are posted.

You can use the following functions to display the data created:

·         You can use the display follow-on documents function to list the follow-on documents created and double-click to go directly to the follow-on documents.

·         You can use the stock overview for wastes function to display the stock quantities of a waste from the inventory management point of view.

·         You can use the stock overview for wastes in Warehouse Management function to display the stock quantities of a waste in the storage bins in Warehouse Management.