Cycle Counting Inventory

Purpose

In cycle counting inventory, you enter your material stocks physically at regular intervals within a fiscal year.

By dividing materials into various classes (for example, A, B, C, D, and so on), you specify for those materials at which intervals or cycles the inventory is to be performed. This allows you to make an inventory fast-moving materials in your warehouse more often than slow-moving materials.

Prerequisites

  • You have used the cycle counting indicator to define material classes and corresponding inventory cycles. For more information, see the Implementation Guide for Materials Management under Start of the navigation path Inventory Management and Physical Inventory Next navigation step Physical Inventory Next navigation step Cycle Counting End of the navigation path.

  • You have assigned every material to be inventoried using cycle counting to a material class. You make these assignments by setting the Cycle Counting indicator in the Storage view in the material master.

  • In the Customizing for Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Activities Next navigation step Physical Inventory Next navigation step Define Types per Storage Type End of the navigation path, you have specified cycle counting as the inventory procedure for the required storage type.

Note Note

When using cycle counting, the system only suggests materials for inventory within a storage type that are marked with a cycle counting indicator.

If you want to inventory the other materials in this storage type as well, change the inventory procedure temporarily for this storage type. You can then perform, for example, a Continuous Inventory.

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Process Flow

  1. Create and activate system inventory records.

  1. Choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Logistics Next navigation step Execution Next navigation step Physical Inventory Next navigation step Physical Inventory Document Next navigation step Create Next navigation step Cycle Next navigation step Counting End of the navigation path.

  2. This report searches for all materials in a storage type that are marked for cycle counting within a given date interval, and it creates a list of storage bins to be inventoried.

  3. Enter the required data, and define the time interval for the inventory.

  4. Choose Execute.

  5. The system proposes for the physical inventory, all storage bins that are to be inventoried by cycle counting.

  6. In the case of mixed storage, the system checks all quants and proposes those quants in the storage type for inventory as soon as one of the quants is relevant for cycle counting. In this case the message Several quants appears.

  7. To plan the inventory count for the suggested bins, choose Start of the navigation path List Next navigation step Post documents End of the navigation path.

  8. To activate the inventory documents immediately, choose Activate Documents.

  1. Print the warehouse inventory list.

  1. In the SAP Menu, choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Logistics Execution Next navigation step Internal Whse Processes Next navigation step Physical Inventory Next navigation step In Warehouse Management Next navigation step Physical Inventory Document Next navigation step Print Warehouse Inventory List End of the navigation path.

  2. Enter data as required.

  3. If you only want to display the inventory document on the screen, deselect the Print List indicator.

  1. Carry out the physical inventory.

  2. Enter the count results in the WMS.

  3. Process the inventory differences.

  4. Enter the inventory differences in Inventory Management.

  5. After the entire physical inventory is complete for the fiscal year, you reset the inventory data for storage bins and storage quants using the RLREOLPQ report. In the next inventory period, you can then perform a new physical inventory for these storage bins.

Note Note

You should not reset the quant data, since the reference to the inventory date is then lost, and the system proposes too many bins for your next cycle counting inventory.

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