The quantity-matching check function checks whether the sales and purchase order quantities in the trading contract match.

A trading contract generates both sales and purchase orders, and, in most cases, the goods are shipped directly from the vendor to the customer. For this reason, it is important for traders to confirm whether the customer's sales order quantity matches the vendor's purchase order quantity. This function is especially useful if the sales-side and purchasing-side units are different. In such cases, the units are automatically converted to the base unit of measure defined in the material master.

When multiple purchase orders are assigned in the trading contract to make up the sales quantity, the system adds the quantities from all the purchase orders together to get the total purchase quantity.

The quantity-matching check is defined in Customizing and assigned to a trading contract type. Your system administrator defines whether the check is performed for each trading contract type.

To check whether the sales and purchasing quantities match:

1. Choose Status and select Log in the box for the quantity check. The system displays a red signal if the sales and purchase quantities differ.

2. Go to the quantity overview screens in the item overview and adjust the quantity.

3. When you have adjusted all the unmatched quantities, choose Save.

You have now made sure that the sales and purchase quantity data are identical so that you can process the business transactions further.