Inventory Management: Analyses
Use
In addition to providing transactions for posting, Inventory Management offers functions (or reports) for displaying information about article movements or the stocks of an article. These functions only result in the data available in the system being displayed and not in any database changes. You can perform these functions by selecting Environment from the Inventory Management menu.
Features
The following analyses, for example, are available:
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List displayThe List display function offers reports for documents posted in Inventory Management. The following can be displayed:
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Article documents for an article-
Article line items-
Archived article documents (for analysis)-
Canceled article documents-
Article documents with reason for movement-
Article documents for a specific posting date·
Stock displayThis provides information on the stocks of an article. The following can be displayed:
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Stock overview for one or more articlesSee:
Inventory Management: Stock Overview-
Stock overview for value-only articlesSee:
Inventory Management: Stock Overview for Value-Only Articles-
Stock/requirements list for an article-
Site stock availability for an article-
List of warehouse stocks on hand for an article-
Expiration date list-
Stock list of emptiesSee:
Inventory Management: Stock List of Empties·
InformationThe Information function allows you to display data (master data, transaction/movement data) from other applications. Example: displaying a purchase order.
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Balances displayThe Balances display function offers analysis of the stock accounts and of the GR/IR clearing account.
The report compares the GR quantities and values relating to a purchase order with the invoice quantities and values for the same PO - but only if the balance of the quantities is not zero.
The report can thus be used to gain an overview of the situation regarding goods and invoice receipts where the purchasing documents manifest some discrepancy.
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ConsignmentThe Consignment option permits analysis of the consignment stocks from vendors as well as the consignment stocks and the returnable packaging stocks at the customer’s site.