Generate Physical Inventory Documents for Goods Movements (SAP Library - Inventory Management and Physical Inventory)

Generate Physical Inventory Documents for Goods Movements

In this step, you define for each plant and movement type whether a physical inventory document is automatically generated when posting a goods movement.

You can create a physical inventory document in addition to the material document at the time of a goods movement. This function is important when inventory differences are posted from the Warehouse Management System. These inventory differences are thereby documented in Inventory Management with a physical inventory document.

In order to create an inventory document in addition to a material document for a goods movement, the following conditions must be met:

In the plant, you must define the transaction/event type WV for automatically generated physical inventory documents.

You must define the document number assignment for this transaction/event type.

Automatic generation of physical inventory documents must be allowed for the movement type.

Note

You may only enter the transaction/event type WV (inventory difference from Warehouse Management system).

Default settings

In the standard SAP R/3 System, automatic generation of physical inventory documents is allowed for movement types 711 to 718.

Activities

1. Specify the plants for which you want the R/3 System to create a physical inventory document. Enter transaction/event type WV for these plants.

2. Check the movement types for which you want a physical inventory document to be created.

3. Set the number assignment for the given transaction/event type.