Generation of Delivery Items for Packaging Materials (SAP Library - Goods Receipt Process for Inbound Deliveries)

Generation of Delivery Items for Packaging Materials

Purpose

You can automatically generate separate delivery items with defined quantities for packaging materials. This is especially important if you:

Manage packaging materials in Inventory Management
Pick packaging materials in the warehouse
Charge customers for packaging materials
Make packaging materials available to customers as returnable packaging, which you also manage

Prerequisites

For this automatic generation to take place, you must make the following settings in the Implementation Guide (IMG):

In the Logistics Execution ® Shipping ® Delivery section, use the Define Item Category Determination in Deliveries activity to set up an item category assignment for the delivery type, an item category group for the packaging material, and make usage-indicator settings for PACK .

In the Logistics Execution ® Shipping ® Packing section, use the Define Packaging Material Types activity to set the plant determination rule for packaging material types.

If the system recognizes the plant and the item category in the handling unit, it generates a delivery item for the packaging material automatically.

Process Flow

Maintain the corresponding item category group for the packaging material in the material master record.

The system determines an item category according to the item category determination settings. For example, the system determines item category HUPM for item category group VERP in a sales order delivery.

Depending on the Customizing settings of the item category that was determined, the delivery item is relevant for picking, billing or stock and is transferred into the corresponding document (goods issue document or billing document, for example).

Processing of Returnable Packaging

The system processes returnable packaging (item category TAL ) by automatically recording a posting change (into the customer's special stock, for instance) as it posts goods issue. These items are not transferred to billing documents.

Subsequent processing of the returnable packaging occurs via sales order type Ret. Packaging Pickup (AT) and completes the process with a Returns delivery (LR) delivery type.

If the customer is to keep the packaging materials, you can bill them to the customer by using the Ret. Packaging Issue (RPI) sales order type.