Assignment of Country of Origin 

Use

You can establish a country of origin for a batch or at a general level in the material master record.

Even without a batch assignment, Service Parts Management (SPM) sets the status of a delivery to “complete” so that the batch assignment can be set in the warehouse.

Prerequisites

To establish a country of origin for a batch, you have completed the following:

·        In Customizing for Logistics Execution, you have made the required assignment to the item category by choosing Shipping ® Basic Shipping Functions ® Incompletion Control for Deliveries ® Assign Incompleteness Procedures ® Assign Incompleteness to Delivery Item Types

·        In Customizing for Logistics Execution, you have removed the check that determines if batches are incomplete, so that the warehouse completes the batches, by choosing Shipping ® Basic Shipping Functions ® Incompletion Control for Deliveries ® Define Incompleteness Procedures

To establish a country of origin at a general level in the material master record, you have completed the following:

·        In Customizing for Logistics - General, you have included the country of origin subscreen, by choosing ® Material Master ® Configuring Material Master  ® Define Structure of Data Screens for Each Screen Sequence.

·        You have implemented Plug-In 2004.01 and activated the report that generates the SL set of subscreens into the system.

Activities

CoO Determined from a Batch-Managed Material

To establish a material as batch-managed, on the Sales general/plant tab page of the material master record, you select the Batch Management indicator.

On the Classification tab page, you must specify an appropriate batch class with the assigned characteristics SAP_SPE_COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN.

CoO Determined from a Material Master Record

To establish a particular country of origin for a material, you use the additional SPM Basic Data subscreen of the material master record to specify the country.

To determine the country of origin, SPM first checks whether a material is batch-managed. If it is not, SPM then checks whether there is a particular country of origin specified in the material master record.

CoO Assignments

Before the goods issue in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), SAP EWM determines the batch and the relevant country of origin either manually in the delivery, or automatically at the creation of a transfer order.

In case of multiple countries of origin for a delivery item, batch subitems might be created in the outbound delivery order in SAP EWM. With the transfer of the goods issue message to SPM in the ERP system, the following occurs:

·        The batch split is applied to the ERP delivery

·        The batch numbers are assigned to delivery items

To display details about the batches and the stock, you can use the Stock Overview transaction in Inventory Management (Logistics ® Materials Management ® Inventory Management ® Environment ® Stock ® Stock Overview).

SAP SPM sends the outbound delivery document with batch and country of origin assignments to CRM Billing so that the data becomes part of the billing due list.

For more information, see the SAP Library of SAP SCM under Extended Warehouse Management ® Connection of Delivery Processing to Additional Functions ® Determining Country of Origin.