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Define Print
Control
In this IMG activity you configure print control.
Print control helps you to define the
following:
- Which slips are to be printed for the
movements (that is, for the transfer orders) within the Warehouse Management
System
- How these slips are to be printed (that is,
which forms are to be used, how many copies are to be printed)
- On which printer a slip is to be printed
automatically
Print control enables you to flexibly manage
the print operations in your warehouse. This flexibility involves a certain
degree of complexity with regard to the parametrization. For this reason, you
are advised to examine print control as a whole beforehand and then analyze
the "printing situation" in your warehouse.
You need to configure the following
settings:
The printout of
slips in the SAP system always involves the spool system. Each time you print,
you need to provide the spool system with certain data, such as:
- Number of copies to be printed
- Dataset name of the printout in the spool
system
You use the spool
code to define the combinations of the individual parameters that you wish to
use.
In the subsequent settings (for example, configuration of the print code), you
no longer have to enter these parameters individually each time. You merely
need to enter the spool code as an abbreviation.
The print indicator
defines the following information for printing transfer orders:
- Form that is used for the printout
- Sort sequence (via sort pool) in which the
individual items of a transfer order are to be printed
In the following,
you will see that you can assign a print indicator to each movement type of
the Warehouse Management system. A transfer order is always assigned to a
movement type. The print indicator determines in this way the general print
parameters for the transfer order.
- Assignment printer - movement
You can assign
various printers and spool codes on the basis of the movement (source storage
type - destination storage type). Furthermore, you can also choose to suppress
printing of the transfer order.
There are now
parameters (print indicator, form) that you can define both in the
"printer-movement" setting and in the print indicator setting.
In the automatic
determination of the print parameters, the system proceeds as
follows:
If something is to
be printed automatically for a transfer order, the system determines the
general print parameters using the print indicator assigned to the movement
type. It then looks at the movement-specific print parameters. If these
parameters contain a parameter (for example, the form) that is set but is also
defined in the print indicator, then the movement-specific parameter is
used.
- Assignment printer-storage type
You can assign a
printer to each storage type.
You may wonder how
the system automatically determines a printer, since printers can be defined
in both the printer-storage type and the printer-movement settings and a
standard printer can be defined in the user master for each user.
First, the system
checks whether a printer is defined in the printer-movement settings. If so,
it chooses that printer. If not, the system decides how to proceed by
consulting the "DruVonTyp" parameter that is set in the printer-movement
settings.
If that parameter is
set, the system checks to see if a printer is defined in the printer-storage
type settings and if so, uses that one.
If, after running
through the procedure described above, the computer still cannot determine a
printer, it then uses the printer defined in the user master of the current
user.
- Assignment print indicator - movement
type
A print indicator is
assigned to each movement type. As mentioned above, the general print
information is defined by this assignment.
- Assignment print program - warehouse
number
You must assign a
print program to each warehouse number. The name of the standard program is
RLVSDR40.
SAP recommends that
you always use your own print program, since modifications are usually made to
the standard print program. For further information, see the program
documentation for report RLVSDR10.
- Print control - collective
processing
A print program is
assigned to each warehouse number for printing multiple transfer orders. In
addition, you can configure the following settings:
- Forms are used to format the
printout.
SAP
Recommendation
1. Before you
begin table maintenance, you should first look at each table individually and
see which ones you require.
2. Then
maintain the tables in the sequence given.
Activities
1. Create the
spool indicators for each warehouse number.
2. Create the
dependent printers for label printing.
3. Define the
sort profile for multiple processing.
4. Create the
print codes for each warehouse number.
5. Assign the
printers to the individual movements.
6. Assign the
printers to the picking areas.
7. Assign the
printers to the storage types.
8. Assign the
print codes to the movement types.
9. Assign the
print reports to the warehouse numbers.
10. Assign the
print control to the multiple processing runs.
11. Using the
analysis program, check whether the settings comply with your
needs.