Inventory Management: Value-Only Article Level
Use
Articles can be grouped together for Inventory Management purposes. A "value-only" article is created for every group. All the goods movements for articles in the group are posted to the value-only article. A typical group used in such cases is the merchandise category. You can also group together merchandise categories or divide up a merchandise category.
Inventory Management on a merchandise category basis is carried out on a value-only basis. The cost and retail values of a value-only article are known in the system. Usually there is no information on quantities.
Inventory Management on a merchandise category basis can be used in the following situations:
In this case the number of keys on the cash register is not enough to allow article-based postings. So each key is assigned to a merchandise category.
Even when electronic scanner registers are in use, you may not wish to manage your inventory on an article basis in the SAP system. By managing your inventory on a value-only basis, you reduce the number of goods movements and the volume of article master data.
Grouping together articles makes it easier to keep a track of business. It is also less trouble to create lists and analyses in this way.
When a goods movement is posted, the system searches for a value-only article (a procedure called value-only article determination). For every item in an article document, the system checks whether the posting is to be made to a specific article or to a value-only article. The following cases are possible:
Prerequisites
You can only use inventory management on a value-only basis if you use
SAP R/3 Retail.