Determining the Stock Situation After Sales 

Use

The stock situation changes with each goods movement. However, it would be impractical to update the stock situation for every goods movement as this would reduce system performance considerably. As a result, in addition to the functions for standard processing, when sales are made at POS terminals, a report for determining the stock situation is available as part of consignment processing.

Prerequisites

·        You have activated consignment processing in SAP Retail.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics – General under Retail Consignment Processing ® Activate Retail Consignment Processing.

·        You have defined strategies for stock determination for goods issues (sales) for your own stock and for consignment stock.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics - General under Retail Consignment Processing ® Define Strategies for Stock Determination and Define Alternate Stock Determination Rules for Consignment Processing.

·        You have made general settings for the POS interface - inbound and have also set the consignment flag to control either receipt-specific or aggregated sales.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics - General under Retail Consignment Processing ® POS Inbound Interface.

Features

·        Before the report processes sales made at POS terminals, it checks whether the stock situation is ambiguous or unique.

The report only takes into account the unrestricted-use stock for the articles in a site.

¡        If the stock situation is unique, the system can post the goods without stock determination. If, for example, only consignment stock for a vendor or only your own stock is present, the situation is unique.

¡        If the stock situation is ambiguous, the system performs stock determination before posting the goods. If, for example, consignment stock exists for several vendors, the stock situation is ambiguous.

·        To combine the components of structured articles in the consignment stock that the system expanded during the goods receipt, the stock situation must be unique.

You can use a Business Add-In (BAdI) to adapt the report functions to your requirements.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics - General under Retail Consignment Processing ® Enhancements Using Business Add-Ins ® BAdI: Extensions for Consignment Processing.

Activities

On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Logistics ® Retailing ® Distributed Retailing ® POS Interface ® Environment ® Consignment Processing ® Stock Situation.

Do not post any goods movements that take place after determination of the stock situation and before posting at the POS terminal. Otherwise the result of the report will not reflect the current stock situation and errors could occur.

Selection

·        Select the sites for which you would like to run the report.

If you set the Include Previous Period indicator, the report determines the current stock situation and the stock situation for the previous period.

The report only updates the stock situation of the previous period for articles whose stock in the current period is ambiguous.

·        To determine and update data you can use parallel processing, in other words, you can start separate processes for a number of sites.

¡        To perform processes from other jobs on the server group as well, you can restrict the maximum number of parallel processes for the current processing run.

¡        Enter a server group for parallel processing.

·        Under Logging, make settings for the application log.

Output

The system issues the result of the report in the application log.

See also:

POS Interface Inbound