Additionals can be used for a variety of purposes. You can, for example, generate purchase orders for packaging or sew-on care labels based on other purchase orders. In distribution centers, for example, you can have trousers ironed or tickets attached to merchandise. Costs are incurred for the additional itself and for attaching the additional. You must also make allowances for the time required for your additionals to be attached to the merchandise in the DC.

You can have the system update the costs and processing time required for additionals in the Retail Information System (RIS).

• Follow-up action 4: updating as a sales order
• Follow-up action 5: updating as a purchase order
• Follow-up action 6: updating as a goods movement
• Follow-up action 7: updating as a delivery

• The system calculates the costs of each transaction using the price determination functions. You have to make the necessary Customizing settings for workload calculations in Customizing for Warehouse Management in the rough workload estimate section so that the system can calculate the time required for processing the additionals.

If you have assigned a suitable follow-up action to the procedure for additionals for an event (for example, posting a goods receipt), the system updates the data in one of the categories defined for that purpose.

You can only update from Purchasing, Sales orders, and Goods movements applications. You cannot update directly when you process a delivery. You can, however, update data in the delivery category (follow-up action 7) from the goods movement application if goods receipt has been posted for the delivery.

The following table illustrates the link between the additionals application and the categories which have been defined for RIS updates.