Physical Inventory in SAP Retail Store (SAP Library

Physical Inventory in SAP Retail Store

Use

This function is used for the following purposes:

To enter the results of a count for a small physical inventory that the head office planned by creating physical inventory documents. You can carry out a count using handheld terminals (PDC units). In this case, the system can automatically generate the inventory document when the inventory results are entered.

To process physical inventory differences by correcting wrong counts and posting actual differences.

Type of Internet Application Component (IAC)

Intranet component

Prerequisites

This function requires the Materials Management application component.

No specific Customizing settings are required for physical inventories in SAP Retail Store. The following settings, however, are required for linking to handheld terminals:

IDoc processing in the Store phys. inventory control step in the Sales ® POS Interface ® Inbound section of the implementation guide (IMG)

EDI partner profiles in the Maintain Partner Profile step in the Cross-Application Components section of the implementation guide (IMG)

Users of this function are store associates responsible for physical inventory. The Enter count function can be used by associates who carry out the physical count, while the Edit differences function can only be used by those associates who carry out physical inventories. The Edit differences function is used exclusively by users responsible for posting differences.

Authorization/Security

Authorizations are only required for the functions Enter count, Change count and Post differences (authorization objects M_ISEG_WZL and M_ISEG_WDB) for inventory management physical inventory.

Standard settings and predefined data

On the initial screen of the application, the following fields contain predefined data:

Physical inventory number

The current physical inventory number for the store is displayed here. You can access the input help to display all the physical inventory numbers for the previous two years, and you can select one of these if necessary.

Count date and posting date

The current date is displayed.

Features

This Internet Component is linked to Physical Inventory in the SAP System using the following BAPIs: GetList, GetDetail, Count, ChangeCount and PostDifferences.

The functions contained in SAP Retail Store differ from the standard SAP functions as follows:

No inventory documents can be created in SAP Retail Store.

On the initial screen, the fields Difference in percentage of transactions Enter/change count and Threshold value of difference of transaction Post difference are not available.

When you post a difference, the field Reason for difference is not ready for input.

All currency amounts are displayed in the POS currency of the site. If this has not been maintained, the company code currency is used. Since Physical Inventory in the SAP System always operates using the company code currency, all amounts are translated. If the POS currency of the store differs from the company code currency, the exchange rates between the two currencies must be up to date.

The system always displays all quantities in the unit of entry.

You can transfer the count results for a physical inventory that were entered using a handheld system directly to the system. To do this, enter the name of the PDC file. SAP Retail Store reads the count data from the file and post it in the SAP System. You can then use the functions for processing differences to change these quantities. For further information on PDC files, see PDC File Format for Physical Inventory in SAP Retail Store.

Adjustment options

The service name of this Internet Application Component is WSTI. You can find all the related files under this service name in SAP@Web Studio.

R/3 development objects

The following development objects are relevant for this IAC:

Development class:	WOST
Transaction:	WSTI
Function groups for entry transaction:	SAPLWOSI SAPLWOSI_INV
BAPIs:	MaterialPhysInv.GetList MaterialPhysInv.GetDetail MaterialPhysInv.Count MaterialPhysInv.ChangeCount MaterialPhysInv.PostDifferences Material.GetDetail

See also:

ISR - SAP Retail: Physical Inventory