Text Management

Use

With this function, you can do the following to texts belonging to deliveries:

  • Display

  • Change

  • Save

  • Delete

In addition, you can create and save new texts for a particular delivery.

Integration

You can create texts in external systems (such as SAP CRM) or in ERP and send them with the document via ERP to Extended Warehouse Management (EWM).

Use the same technical key for the text types, for example, 0001, in ERP and in EWM when you want the system to replicate your texts.

Prerequisites

You have made the Customizing settings for text management.

  • You have defined text type.

    You have assigned one of the text types to the text objects (such as delivery header, delivery item) delivered by SAP. For example, assign the text type packing text to the delivery header.

    Note Note

    For more information about defining text types, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Cross-Process Settings Next navigation step Delivery Processing Next navigation step Text Management Next navigation step Define Text Types for Delivery Document Header End of the navigation path and Define Text Types for Delivery Document Item.

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  • You have defined a text profile containing the following:

    • One or more access sequences

    • The assignment of text types to the text profile

    • The assignment of a document or item type to the text profile

      Note Note

      For more information about defining text profiles, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Cross-Process Settings Next navigation step Delivery Processing Next navigation step Text Management Next navigation step Define Text Profiles with Access Sequences End of the navigation path.

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      For more information about Customizing the document or item types for the goods receipt process, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Goods Receipt Process Next navigation step Inbound Delivery Next navigation step Define Document Types for Inbound Delivery Process End of the navigation path or Define Item Types for Inbound Delivery Process.

      For more information about Customizing the document or item types for the goods issue process, see the Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Goods Issue Process Next navigation step Outbound Delivery Next navigation step Define Document Types for Outbound Delivery Process End of the navigation path or Define Item Types for Outbound Delivery Process.

Features

Text management supports texts:

  • At header level

    Example Example

    For example, you can include sales texts that indicate that the delivery A is for the key customer Smith and that the product must therefore be delivered as quickly as possible.

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  • At item level

    Example Example

    For example, you can create a packing text for a product that indicates to the warehouse employee that the product is fragile and that he or she must therefore always pack it in packing material 123.

    End of the example.

In EWM, you can display, change, or delete texts belonging to deliveries. Only there can you also create and save new texts directly.

Note Note

For more information about the connection between documents and services, such as text management, see Delivery Processing.

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Activities

To process existing texts or create new ones in SAP EWM, select one of the following:

  • For the goods receipt process, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Delivery Processing Next navigation step Inbound Delivery Next navigation step Maintain Inbound Delivery End of the navigation path

  • For the goods issue process, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Delivery Processing Next navigation step Outbound Delivery Next navigation step Maintain Outbound Delivery Order End of the navigation path

  • For posting changes, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Delivery Processing Next navigation step Posting Change Next navigation step Maintain Posting Change End of the navigation path