Physical Inventory: With Warehouse Management (SAP Library

Physical Inventory: With Warehouse Management

Use

Normally, R/3 Warehouse Management administers the whole of your warehouse. Warehouse Management can be seen as a supplement to Inventory Management; that is, goods movements documented in Inventory Management are also documented in Warehouse Management.

Warehouse numbers are assigned to storage locations. These in turn are divided into storage types and storage bins. The following levels are therefore relevant for physical inventory:

Warehouse number

A warehouse number is always assigned to a site and to a storage location. The storage location provides the link between the Warehouse Management and Inventory Management structures.

Storage type

These include high rack storage area or block storage area

Bin location

The storage bin indicates the exact location of an article (via coordinates, for example)

A physical inventory item is the stock of an article contained in a storage bin (the quant).

Example

A physical inventory document is structured as follows:

Header of a physical inventory document:

Warehouse number	Storage type
001	001

Items in a physical inventory document:

Item	Bin location	Article	Batch	Site	Stock types
1	01-01-01	500004711		0001	Unrestricted-use
2	01-01-02	500004711		0001	Unrestricted-use
3	01-01-02	500004712		0001	Unrestricted-use
4	01-01-03	500004712		0001	Quality inspection
5	01-01-04	500004713	Standard	0001	Unrestricted-use
6	01-01-04	500004713	Standard	0001	Quality inspection
7	01-01-05	500004713	Promotion	0001	Unrestricted-use