Use
You can now post partial goods receipts for inbound deliveries. For goods movement-relevant inbound deliveries, you can make goods receipt postings using the putaway confirmation for one or more transfer orders. The following functions are at your disposal:
You can display individual partial goods receipts in the document flow for the delivery, using the relevant number of existing material documents. You can use this process in the decentralized Warehouse Management System, and also in connection with handling units. Note, that you can only post goods receipt for complete handling units. The system posts the delivery quantities according to the material quantity given in the handling unit.
Prerequisites
For example, you have created a purchase order for an external vendor (for example in the SAP menu under: Logistics ® Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Order ® Create ® Vendor/Supplying Plant Known). Against this purchase order you create a goods movement-relevant inbound delivery (for example in the SAP menu under: Logistics ® Logistics Execution ® Goods Receipt for Inbound Delivery ® Inbound Delivery ® Create ® Single Documents or Collective Processing of Purchase Orders).
You create one or more transfer orders for this inbound delivery.
Procedure
You have the following options for posting partial goods receipts for inbound deliveries. You can post either complete items or only partial quantities of items.
Posting a Partial Goods Receipt Using the Putaway Confirmation
From the SAP menu choose Logistics ® Logistics Execution ® Inbound Process ® Goods Receipt for Inbound Delivery ® Putaway ® Confirm Transfer Order ® Single Document ® In One Step.
The system displays all items that are subject to confirmation.
Note that in the case of over-putaway (in other words, you increase the putaway quantity during confirmation) and simultaneous goods receipt posting, the system adjusts the delivery quantity to the total putaway quantity for consistency.
A delivery item contains materials with quantity 5, and there are three transfer orders for 3 pieces, 1 piece, and 1 piece. You confirm, for example, the first transfer order with 9 pieces (6 pieces more) without posting a goods receipt. The delivery quantity is then unchanged, 5 pieces, but the putaway quantity is now 11 pieces (9 pieces + 1 piece + 1 piece). You confirm the second transfer order with 4 pieces (3 pieces more) and perform a goods receipt posting this time. The total putaway quantity is then 14 pieces (9 pieces + 4 pieces + 1 piece).
The delivery quantity is adjusted to the putaway quantity, and is therefore no longer 5 pieces but instead 14 pieces.
Posting Remaining Quantities
If you have not linked all transfer order confirmations to an automatic goods receipt posting (in other words, the inbound delivery was completely put away, but not yet completely posted for goods receipt), then you can post the remaining quantities as follows:
The system then posts all open remaining quantities for goods receipt for the selected inbound delivery.
Collective Processing Via the Inbound Delivery Monitor
If you want to post inbound delivery items without creating transfer orders, or you want to post already confirmed transfer orders for goods receipt, proceed as follows:
Constraints
If you work with serial numbers you cannot post partial quantities of items. You must always post the entire item, in other words all the quantities.