Physical Inventory: Freeze Book Inventory Balance
Description
Release 3.0 enables you to freeze the book inventory balance of an inventory item in the physical inventory document.
Example
You have physically counted all items in a physical inventory document, but have not yet entered the counted results in the system for all items. For one of these items, the book inventory balance is 100 pieces. 90 pieces were counted, corresponding to a difference of 10 pieces.
You freeze the book inventory balance of 100 pieces in the physical inventory document.
Before you enter the count, a goods receipt of 20 pieces is posted. The current book inventory balance is now 120 pieces. For the physical inventory document, however, the book inventory balance of 100 pieces continues to be relevant.
If the inventory balance had not been frozen, there would have been a difference of 30 pieces for the item.
Change system parameters in customizing
In Customizing for Inventory Management, you specify whether the freezing
of book inventory balances is allowed in the storage location.
Proceed
You can find out more about this setting in the Implementation Guide in the
step 
"Allow freezing of book inventory balance in storage
location".
Changes in procedure
From the Physical Inventory menu, you can freeze the book inventory balance using the following functions:
- Physical inventory document -> Create (initial screen)
- Inventory count -> Change (header data)
- Sessions -> Freeze book inventory (batch input)