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 Output of Empties Data in Sales and Distribution (SD)

Use

Within Order Processing, Empties Management uses sales bills of material of type 5 and an empties update at item level. With the help of the empties update, the system can determine the empties balance for each customer and material or empties group, and can determine new empties data at any time. You process the calculation matrix required for determining new empties data in Customizing. The system can print this empties-specific information on forms (empties balance confirmation, delivery note printout and invoice printout) or using a report (empties evaluation report:/BEV/EMS).

Prerequisites

You must create a user-defined display variant to be able to output empties data.

Features

There are several ways of displaying the empties data in the system and the calculations based on the data:

Empties Data in the Delivery Note

The system creates an empties block in the delivery note. The only difference between the Empties Management delivery note and the ERP delivery note is that an empties block has been added to the Empties Management delivery note. The empties block contains information about the empties that are shipped with the corresponding delivery, usually tied to a full product.

Recommendation Recommendation

You can optimize the structure of the empties block by using additional empties groups. You can also optimize the structure of forms using the component Material Sorting .

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Empties Data in the Billing Document

The system creates an empties block in the invoice. The only difference between the Empties Management billing document and the ERP billing document is that an empties block and an empties account have been added to the Empties Management billing document. The empties block contains information about the empties in grouped format. When printing the billing document (invoice, credit memo, and so on), the system prints the tied empties in two formats:

  • Empties block

    The system prints the empties (tied and untied) that are billed in the billing document. The system outputs the quantities and values of the individual empties materials in cumulative form in accordance with the empties groups defined in the material master.

  • Empties account

    The system prints all of the account holder’s empties stocks. This information is also printed accumulated by empties group.

    Recommendation Recommendation

    You can optimize the structure of the empties block by using additional empties groups. You can also optimize the structure of forms using the component Material Sorting sapurl_link_0001_0001_0002 .

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Balance Confirmation for Empties

In addition to the empties data on invoices and delivery notes, you can also generate a balance confirmation for each individual customer’s monthly empties balance. The system can display amounts in the local and customer currency (choose in the selection screen). The standard system contains a form for the balance confirmation. If you want to use your own form, you have to define it in Customizing.

Empties Evaluation Report

An empties information program exists that evaluates database table /BEV1/EMLGBSD.

The system uses empties evaluation reports to issue a certain empties stock on the basis of predefined selection criteria:

  • of the empties stocks for a specific period

  • of a customer’s empties stocks each month

    Note Note

    You can arrange the display view to suit your own requirements by customizing different display criteria (for example, according to organizational structure and partner function) and totals formations.

    End of the note.

Empties fields are concatenated in the empties evaluation report as follows:

Fields

Comments

Sales fields:

  • Sales-Q1 to Sales-Q5 ( fixed quantity fields)

  • Sales-V1 to Sales-V5 ( fixed value fields )

The system calculates the contents of the sales fields from the totaled sales (for the corresponding period) for the empties fields Q01 – Q05 (quantities) and V01 – V05 (values) This forms a reference to the empties fields defined in Customizing.

Balance carryforward fields:

  • Balance carryforward-Q1 to Balance carryforward-Q5 ( fixed quantity fields)

  • Balance carryforward-V1 to Balance carryforward-V5 ( fixed value fields )

The system calculates the content of the Balance carryforward fields from the New balanc e fields from the corresponding previous record.

New balance fields:

  • New balance-Q1 to New balance-Q5 ( fixed quantity fields)

  • New balance-V1 to New balance-V5 ( fixed value fields )

The system calculates New balance fields from the content of the corresponding sales field and the current balance carryforward for this period.

Example Example

New balance-Q1 to New balance-Q1 + sales-Q1

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Note Note

If a system directly allocates empties outbound empties and inbound empties, for example, to an empties field you combine the relevant item categories for outbound empties and inbound empties in this field. Ensure that quantity and value fields are kept separate from one another.

End of the note.