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 Status Changes Communicated from EWM to ERP

Use

The following status changes are communicated from SAP EWM to ERP:

  • In Yard

    The system assigns the In Yard status to the inbound deliveries that you register. This status indicates that the material has arrived at the goods receipt office and is, in principle, available. The actual stock posting for goods receipt may take place much later.

    When the goods have arrived in the yard, in other words, the trucks have arrived and are waiting to be unloaded, SAP EWM sets the status of the corresponding delivery to In Yard , and then forwards this status update by sending a confirmation to SPM. It may be the case that a new ASN coming from SAP EWM already has the status In Yard . The status update is dispatched to SAP ICH and SAP APO.

    The status update of In Yard and Received on Dock can be received together from SAP EWM in the same confirmation.

    In SPM, the In Yard status is set both at header and item level. In Yard can only be set for errorless items, in other words, items that are not On Hold .

    The In Yard status may also be called In Plant .

  • Partial Goods Receipt

    You can split the goods receipt process into several steps by first posting just a part of the total quantity.

    You can use the partial goods receipt function in order to post a goods receipt for:

    • Inbound delivery items and for partial quantities of inbound delivery items

    • Handling units

      You can perform a goods receipt with reference to a handling unit (HU) by selecting the top-level HU.

    • Confirming transfer orders

      You can also post partial reversals for an inbound delivery. In this case, partial quantities for the inbound delivery are posted from stock. The corresponding quantity in the inbound delivery can then be posted again.

      Provided the system has been set up accordingly, it automatically adjusts the delivery quantities to the quantity that has been posted until a certain point in time.

Example Example

Create inbound delivery with 100 PC

Inbound delivery: delivery quantity = 100, posted quantity = 0

Post partial goods receipt (GR) with 90 PC

Create material document with 90 PC, movement type = 101

(101 = goods receipt)

Inbound delivery: delivery quantity = 100, posted quantity = 90

With centralized or local WM, you cannot post partial goods receipt for materials with serial numbers.

End of the example.

  • Full Goods Receipt

    You use physical goods receipt to post the materials to stock and to update the value of stock.

  • ROD

    Received on Dock (ROD) refers to the status of the inbound delivery in SAP EWM. The status Received on Dock (ROD) corresponds to the goods receipt in SPM. Since a goods receipt has taken place, SAP EWM changes the status of the goods receipt from In Yard (IY) to Received on Dock (ROD) and forwards this updated data to SPM. SPM updates the inbound delivery with respect to the items and quantities received, and posts this data internally to Inventory Management (MM-IM) and Financial Accounting (FI).

    SPM sends a message to SAP ICH and to the application log (see Dispatching ).

  • AFS

    After the goods have been received on dock, they can be transferred within the warehouse to a storage location from where they are available for sale. The Available for Sale (AFS) status in SAP EWM is analogous to the status Processed in SPM.

The following processes are communicated from SAP EWM to ERP:

  • Reversal

    This process creates a material document with movement type 102.

  • Return

    This process creates a material document with movement type 122 (RE Return to Vendor ) with the reversed/different quantities. The reversal quantity should be less than or equal to the accumulated posted quantity. This is checked in the validation framework .

  • Release

    This process creates a material document with movement type 105 (GR From Blocked Stock ) for the quantities.