Physical Inventory: Sending Physical Inventory Documents to a Store
Use
It is sometimes necessary to transfer physical inventory document data from the central R/3 system to stores. This data can be sent to the stores as a list or an IDoc.
Features
Possible Sending Options
These lists can be used for counting in the store.
A suitable interface must be available in the store before this option can be used. The recipient can, for example, be a POS system or a store retailing system. You could also, if required, send the physical inventory data to an external service company you have commissioned to carry out a physical inventory for you.
Physical inventory data does not have to be sent to a store if the store is responsible for the count (if the count lists are created using a store retailing system, for example). The results of a count can still be sent to the head office for automatic processing. There are two possible situations:
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Physical inventory documents already exist in the central systemIn this case, count data is assigned to the corresponding physical inventory documents on the basis of the article number in SAP Retail or the EAN/UPC.
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No physical inventory documents exist in the central systemIn this case, physical inventory documents are generated subsequently for the count data.
Value-Only Article Management
If the article to be counted is not managed on an article basis in the head office, the information can be passed on in two different ways: