Enhancements to
Inventory Sampling 
Use
The following new functions have been added to inventory sampling for Release 4.6C.
- Plausibility check
In an inventory
sampling, you can use the plausibility check to run checks before the actual
count to give you an idea of how long the count will take and how successful
it will be. In the check, the system equates the fictitious count values of
the sampling elements with the actual book values. It therefore assumes that
the count did not result in inventory differences.
This plausibility
check provides you with an idea of the quality of the random selection you
have carried out and thereby of the expected success of the inventory
sampling. The system also provides an approximate overview of the expected
subsequent random selections. If the results of the plausibility check are not
satisfactory, you can carry out a new random selection.
- The values of stock management units that have already been counted and posted are no longer updated. The inventory differences are extrapolated in the current sampling layer. You configure this in the physical inventory profile by choosing the Update counted and posted stock management units indicator.
- After you enter an upper price limit for the upper value limit in the physical inventory profile, you can enter a relative upper value limit as well as an absolute upper value limit . This ensures that you adhere to the 80/20 rule when stratification is optimum.
- During stratification, the system now issues the warning message M7 641 if the last stratum of the sampling area becomes a complete-count stratum and a subsequent random selection would not be possible. The message describes what you have to do to prevent this.
- You can now manually close an inventory sampling that has the status Active (partially successful) if you meet enough of the criteria for closing the inventory sampling successfully.
- You cannot completely delete an inventory sampling that you have created. You can only delete the elements of the stock population. The user who deletes these puts a comment in the header data and the stock management units, which remain in the system.
Effects on Customizing
To go to the new settings in the physical
inventory profile, choose Physical Inventory -> Inventory
Sampling -> 
Create Physical Inventory Profiles.