Material Handling Group

Use

You assign material handling groups to business locations to enable the system to determine:

  • The materials that are relevant for processing at a location

  • Whether uploaded meter readings should be used to create invoicing documents

  • Whether a material is owned by the oil company

  • Whether the upload of meter readings or POS data creates goods movements for a material

  • Whether a bill of material explosion should occur when goods movements are created for the material

Example Example

A material handling group may include a fuel for which billing documents are to be created, with meter readings providing the quantities that the service station partner is to be billed for. If you assign this material handling group to a business location, and also assign a process control group that specifies the processes required to enable billing of the service station partner, the system can create billing documents for sales of this material when the periodic claim process runs.

End of the example.

Activities

To create and maintain material handling groups, choose Start of the navigation path Service Station Next navigation step Retailing Next navigation step Logistics Next navigation step Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Material Next navigation step Material handling group Next navigation step Maintain End of the navigation path . For more information, see Creating Material Handling Groups .

You assign material handling groups to locations at the business type level. For more information, see Master Data at the Business Type Level .