Goods Receipt

Purpose

In most cases, you post goods receipts referencing a preceding document, for example purchase orders or shipping notifications. The system suggests all the key data for the goods receipt from the preceding document. If the shipping documents you receive do not contain any reference numbers, you have various options for searching for the reference document in the system. You can, for example, carry out a search using the internal article number, the EAN, or the delivery date.

SAP Retail also enables you to enter the goods receipt in two steps. To ensure that the data is as accurate as possible when the goods are actually checked at goods receipt, you can enter the delivery note data as a rough goods receipt. You post the actual goods receipt in a second step, referencing the rough goods receipt.

Integration

Required function:

Required component:

Updating stock at goods receipt

Article, Site, Inventory Management

Updating purchase order history at goods receipt for a purchase order

Ordering

Creation of transfer requirements at goods receipt

Warehouse Management

Updating of cost values for the goods receipt items in Financial Accounting

Financial Accounting

Updating of account assignment objects at goods receipt for purchase orders assigned to an account

Controlling

Features

The following functions are available at goods receipt:

  • Goods receipt referencing a purchase order

A purchase order can be placed with either an external vendor or an internal vendor (for example, a distribution center).

  • Goods receipt not referencing a purchase order

You can have the system automatically generate a purchase order to enable you to verify the invoice.

  • Goods receipt referencing a delivery

A goods receipt can be entered for deliveries with or without purchase order reference.

  • Rough goods receipts

This is the first step in a two-step goods receipt. Only the information contained in the delivery note from the vendor is entered in the system.

  • Entry of returnable transport packaging as special stock (third-party stock)

  • Reversal of goods receipts and posting of returns to vendor

  • Entry of quantities for variants of generic articles using a matrix

  • Support for store goods receipts

For further information on goods receipts, see MM - Inventory Management Goods Receipts .