In this section, you configure the system settings for handling differences and for confirming transfer orders.
Differences that are found in the warehouse are posted by the SAP System to a specific type for differences (for example, 999) whenever the following processes are executed:
In the WM system, you can classify differences according to cause (for example, breakage, theft).
Using the difference indicator, you determine the storage type and the storage bin to which the differences are posted. Depending on the actual quantity involved, a dialog box appears in which you confirm the difference quantity and the difference bin.
For each difference indicator, you can store the percentage value for the deviation allowed, that is, starting from which the dialog box is to appear. Suppressing the dialog box is appropriate for stock picks that cannot be done to the exact amount and where the difference is cleared against the stock in the source bin.
A warehouse worker guesses a 3 kilogram pick for a particular material and determines the actual weight further away from the bin. In this case, each pick is confirmed with a difference. It would be appropriate to have the dialog box suppressed so as to save this extra step.
One important aspect of confirmation of transfer orders is the setting of the confirmation requirement. This requirement means additional work for the user, but it also affords a high level of stock and information security.
The decision as to whether a transfer order item requires confirmation and whether it is confirmed immediately depends on the parameters you set for your movement types and your storage types.
Basically, the following applies: as soon as one of the above parameters calls for a confirmation requirement for a transfer order item, the item must be confirmed.
Immediate confirmation of a transfer order item only works out if the respective movement type does not disallow this, that is, if the storage type from which the materials are picked is not subject to pick confirmation and if the storage type into which the materials are put away does not have a putaway confirmation requirement.
For two-step confirmation, both storage types involved in the trasnfer order must be subject to confirmation.
At the warehouse number level, you define whether transfer orders or TO items are to be confirmed in two separate steps.
During the confirmation of the first step, the pick process from the source storage bin is confirmed. The source storage bin and the quant are automatically updated. In the quant of the destination storage bin, only the open transfer quantity is updated at this point.
During the confirmation of the second step, the transfer process and also the receipt of the material at the destination storage bin are confirmed. Here the source storage bin and its quant are no longer updated, but only the destination storage bin and the quant stored there.
SAP recommends working with the stock placement and stock removal confirmation functions. The confirmation procedure is recommended for the following reasons:
Include the confirmation process in your organizational procedures.
You can use the bar code for confirming transfer orders. This makes your work much easier.