Allocation of Vendor Consignment Goods 

Use

When you create purchase orders in consignment processing using an allocation table (externally/internally), you specify the stock category for which or to which you would like to procure or transfer goods for a site, in addition to the usual settings.

Prerequisites

·        You have activated consignment processing in SAP Retail.

For more information, see Customizing for Logistics – General under Retail Consignment Processing ® Activate Retail Consignment Processing.

·        In the item category enhancements for the allocation table, you have entered defaults for consignment processing.

For more information, see Customizing for Logistics - General under Retail Consignment Processing ® Allocation Table.

·        You have defined the stock transport order follow-on document for the item categories of the allocation table that you are using in consignment processing.

For more information, see Customizing for Logistics - General under Merchandise Distribution ® Allocation ® Allocation Table ® Item Categories of Allocation Table.

·        For preferential procurement of articles for consignment stock, you have set the Consignment Control flag.

Features

·        When using an allocation table to create purchase orders for each site, you can control consignment processing as follows:

¡        Perform procurement according to the consignment control defined in the master data for the article

¡        Procure goods for the consignment stock

¡        Procure goods for your own stock

·        In two-level allocation tables, you can define separate procurement for each site. For example, the distribution center can order an article as a consignment good, but when stock is transferred this article might be transferred to the consignment stock of one store but to another store’s own stock.

Procurement combinations that make good business sense from a distribution center and a store point of view

Distribution Center Procurement	Store Procurement
Define in master data	Define in master data
Define in master data	Own stock
Own stock	Own stock
Consignment stock	Define in master data
Consignment stock	Consignment stock
Consignment stock	Own stock

 

Activities

When you create an allocation table, you can change the default settings for Item Categories that you have defined in Customizing:

In the detail view of the allocation item, choose the Control tab page and define the required procurement under Consignment Processing.

Provided that the system has not generated any follow-on documents for external procurement, you can change consignment processing for items in the allocation table.

See also:

Allocation