Empties master data contains all the information about the business partner (customer master) and material (material master) needed for Empties Management. You use the empties master data to specify basic characteristics that define usage in empties processing.
You have made the necessary basic settings for empties in Customizing.
You have set the
Empties
material indicator for empties material types in Customizing and you manage these on a quantity basis in the stock. Value-based management is optional.
You have defined the empties-specific item category groups in Customizing.
You have stored the grouping of empties materials in the empties groups and configured the print column for the dynamic empties block on delivery notes in Customizing for
Sales and Distribution
under
.
The following empties-specific parameters in the system (grouped by views) allow you to process empties master data:
Material master data for Empties Management in the Sales and Distribution(SD) component
Screen: Basic data 1
General item category group
Gross weight/net weight
Screen: Sales: Sales organization 2
General item category group
Item category group
Empties group
Print column
Screen: Accounting 1
Valuation class
Customer master data for Empties Management in the Sales and Distribution(SD) component
Switch off empties deposits (no processing logic defined)
Switch off
Empties Update
indicator
Material master data for Empties Management in the component MM
Screen: Basic data 1
Structured empties/full product
Make the following settings for Empties Management in SD in the material master:
Define:
The characteristics that describe the material
Which control functions the material has during empties processing
Define whether the following functions are to be activated for Empties Management in the customer master:
Empties deposits
Empties update
The entries you make here generally determine whether a customer is involved in empties processing or not.
Make the following settings in MM:
Define which material is handled as a full product, structured empty, or normal material in the material master for Empties Management.